DERRY WATKINS - SPECIAL PLANTS

GARDENER'S BREAKS 2012

One Day Practical Gardening Courses

GROWING FROM SEED
Wednesday 12 September
Sowing, pricking out and caring for seedlings. Dealing with dormancy. Collecting, cleaning and storing seeds (including some to take home)


TAKING CUTTINGS
Thursday 13 September
repeated on Monday 24 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.

WEAVING WILLOW PLANT SUPPORTS
Monday 17 September

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.

THE RABBITS EYE VIEW
Wednesday 19 September
Become a better gardener, learn from your garden plants – their natural habitats, competiveness and lifespans – in order to maximise interest and minimise maintenance in every season

GRAVEL GARDENING
Wednesday 26 September

Why plants love gravel. How to design and make a gravel garden. What are the best plants to grow in gravel. Looking after it for years to come.

GARDENING UNDER GLASS
Wednesday 10 October
sorry, change of date, will be Wednesday 24 October

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

STARTING TO GARDEN
Thursday 11 October
Choosing the right plant for the right place. Soils, compsting, growing vegetables, propagation. Learn basic practical garden skills. Taught by Mary Payne

GROWING PLANTS FOR SALE
Thursday & Friday, 6 & 7 October
repeated on Wednesday & Thursday 12 & 13 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.

PRUNING
Friday 19 October

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

 

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 2011

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

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