DERRY WATKINS - SPECIAL PLANTS

GARDENER'S BREAKS 2010

One Day Practical Gardening Courses

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TAKING CUTTINGS
Thursday 9 September
repeated on Monday 20 September

Learn how new plants grow from cuttings and practice on a wide variety of plants, starting with soft and semi-ripe cuttings. Composts, timing, aftercare. Take home a tray full of cuttings.

GARDENING UNDER GLASS
Monday 13 September

How to get the most from your greenhouse or conservatory: choosing plants, watering, fertilizing, ventilating, fighting pests & diseases, composts, planning for year round bloom.

GRAVEL GARDENING
Monday 27 September

Why plants love gravel. How to design and make a gravel garden. Looking after it for years to come.

GARDENING WITH GRASSES
Friday 1 October

Using ornamental grasses for year round effect. Which ones to grow, where to grow them, how to prune and propagate them. Taught by Mary Payne

GROWING PLANTS FOR SALE
Monday & Tuesday, 18 & 19 October
Two days - £140

Day 1: What plants to grow, easy to grow and easy to sell varieties . Who to sell them to. Where to sell, how to advertise. Day 2: Composts, equipment, pricing, costs, labelling, advertising, record-keeping and planning production.

WEAVING WILLOW PLANT SUPPORTS
Friday 22 October

Making small hurdles, stem supports for perennials and wigwams for climbers. How to cut and prepare your own materials. Take home a willow frame you have made (add £5 for materials). Taught by Richard Kerwood of Windrush Willow.

PRUNING
Tuesday 9 November

The art of pruning shrubs, trees, fruit trees, grasses perennials, etc. Pruning for form and vigour and flowering. Taught by Mary Payne.

TAKING WINTER CUTTINGS
Wednesday 10 November

Follow-up to Taking Cuttings. Root cuttings, hardwood cuttings, bulb scaling, division, layering and air layering. - Propagation techniques for the dormant season.

 

Numbers limited to fifteen.
Coffee and homemade lunch included.
When courses fill up I book further dates, so please ring to confirm dates. Advance booking essential.

Cost: £75 (£65 for each additional booking, so bring a friend)

Time: 10am - 4pm. Place: Special Plants

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Cuttings course on DVD

£10 (and £1 p&p)

Practical how-to course on an easy to use DVD. Step by step instructions for taking softwood cuttings, semiripe cuttings, hardwood cuttings, root cuttings and leaf cuttings. Explains the underlying principles of how cuttings root. See the cuttings being taken, watch them rooting, being potted up and finally see the resulting plants in the garden. Anybody can make new plants from old and fill their garden with plants they have created themselves. And most importantly they can enjoy propagating as much as Derry so evidently does.

 

SPECIAL PLANTS is about 100 miles due west of London, seven miles north of Bath and four miles south of Junction 18 on the M4. Greenways Lane turns west off of the A46 100 yards south of the A420 roundabout. We are not in Cold Ashton village. It is about a mile down a very narrow winding lane. Please drive with care. There is plenty of room to park and turn around when you arrive.

Lectures Derry is giving in 2009

and most importantly, the recipes for Derry's famous flapjack and cornbread

 

Special Plants, Greenways Lane, Cold Ashton, Chippenham, Wilts UK SN148LA
Telephone: (01225) 891686 E-mail: derry@specialplants.net
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