Martin Studied Commercial Horticulture at Greenmount, County Antrim Northern Ireland and Advanced Landscape Design & Construction with NEBBS Management at the Welsh College of Horticulture.  He has held Head Gardener roles for private residences in London, for the late King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan and at Audley End the English Heritage stately home in Essex.  He has been Landscape Designer for the Royal Palaces in Jordan and Head Gardener – Senior Superintendent for the Botanical Gardens, Arboretum, Parks and Government House, Bermuda.  He is currently Head Gardner and Landscape Designer at Arundel Castle, West Sussex for the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk.  In 2018 he was awarded Kew Guild Medal