Courses

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

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

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

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

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 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 Watkings

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

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

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

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