Courses

If a course is fully booked we often repeat it if there is enough demand.   You can add your name to the waiting list by clicking on the link for that course.

Making Hazel Plant Supports IV - £50.00

Cutting hazel wands and weaving them into informal shapes to support both large and small plants. Practise in my garden. Simultaneously ornamental, creative, energetic and useful.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Making Hazel Plant Supports III - £50.00

Cutting hazel wands and weaving them into informal shapes to support both large and small plants. Practise in my garden. Simultaneously ornamental, creative, energetic and useful.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Making Hazel Plant Supports II - £50.00

Cutting hazel wands and weaving them into informal shapes to support both large and small plants. Practise in my garden. Simultaneously ornamental, creative, energetic and useful.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Making Hazel Plant Supports - £50.00

Cutting hazel wands and weaving them into informal shapes to support both large and small plants. Practise in my garden. Simultaneously ornamental, creative, energetic and useful.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Sowing Seeds - £50.00

How to sow seeds. When to sow different kinds of seeds. Composts. Dealing with dormancy. Pricking out and caring for seedlings. Take home seeds you have sown.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Taking Cuttings - £100.00

Learn how new plants grow from cuttings. How to take cuttings and when. Composts, timing, aftercare. Have a go with the plants in Derry's garden. Take home your cuttings.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Creating a Border - £50.00

How to make sure your garden looks good throughout the year. Designing for successional flowering - using colour, planting styles and plant selection to get the most from your garden.

Tutor: Mary Payne

Creating a Border II - £50.00

How to make sure your garden looks good throughout the year. Designing for successional flowering - using colour, planting styles and plant selection to get the most from your garden.

Tutor: Mary Payne

Taking Cuttings II - £100.00

Learn how new plants grow from cuttings. How to take cuttings and when. Composts, timing, aftercare. Have a go with the plants in Derry's garden. Take home your cuttings.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Gravel Gardening - £50.00

How to design, make and maintain a gravel garden. Why plants love it. The best plants to grow there. Why plants love it and why it is very nearly the No Work Garden.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Gardening in the Shade - £50.00

What influence does shade have on plants and on your plant selection? What are the best plants to grow in dry shade and in damp shade. Woodland gardening

Tutor: Mary Payne

Gardening in the Shade II - £50.00

What influence does shade have on plants and on your plant selection? What are the best plants to grow in dry shade and in damp shade. Woodland gardening

Tutor: Mary Payne

Gardening for the Future - £50.00

How can we adapt our planting styles and gardening habits? Gardening without plastics. Controlling weeds, pests and diseases without chemicals. Sustainable planting.

Tutor: Mary Payne

Collecting Seed - £50.00

How to tell when seed is ripe. How to collect, clean and store seed. Harvest several kinds from Derry's garden. Clean and package them to take home

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Grasses and Perennials - £50.00

What each groups of plants offers and why they are so complimentary. How to combine them for best effect.

Tutor: Mary Payne

Taking Cuttings III - £100.00

Learn how new plants grow from cuttings. How to take cuttings and when. Composts, timing, aftercare. Have a go with the plants in Derry's garden. Take home your cuttings.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Taking Cuttings IV - £100.00

Learn how new plants grow from cuttings. How to take cuttings and when. Composts, timing, aftercare. Have a go with the plants in Derry's garden. Take home your cuttings.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Pruning - £50.00

How to prune shrubs, fruit trees, perennials, grasses and fruit trees for form, vigour & flowering. When to prune, why to prune, when not to prune.

Tutor: Mary Payne

Gardening Under Glass - £50.00

How to get the most from your greenhouse, polytunnel or coldframe. How to start young plants off, overwinter tender plants and gardening all year round.

Tutor: Derry Watkins

Growing Plants for Sale - Two Days - £200.00

Which plants to grow. Where to grow them. Who to sell them to. Where to sell. How to market yourself. Composts, labelling, equipment, pricing, costs & planning production.

Tutor: Derry Watkins