Course Fully Booked:
Thursday 8 April 2021
Repeated:
15 April 2021
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
Course Dates:
Thursday 15 April 2021
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
Course Fully Booked:
Thursday 27 May 2021
Repeated:
3 June 2021
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
Course Fully Booked:
Thursday 3 June 2021
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
Course Dates:
Thursday 10 June 2021
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
Course Dates:
Thursday 24 June 2021
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
Course Dates:
Thursday 22 July 2021
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
Course Dates:
Thursday 12 August 2021
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
Course Dates:
Thursday 9 September 2021
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
Course Dates:
Thursday 23 September 2021
What each groups of plants offers and why they are so complimentary. How to combine them for best effect.
Tutor: Mary Payne
Course Dates:
Thursday 7 October 2021
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
Course Dates:
Thursday 14 October 2021
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
Course Fully Booked:
Thursday 28 October 2021
Repeated:
7 October 2021
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