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 - £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

Grow Your Own Cut Flowers - £100.00

How to design and prepare a cutting patch. Choosing the flowers. Sowing seed and pricking out. How to pick and condition your flowers. Make a hand tied bunch to take home

Tutor: Rachel Siegfried From Green And Gorgeous

Growing Plants for Sale - Two Days - £200.00

Which plants to grow. Where to grow them. Who to sell them to. Where to sell them. How to market yourself. Composts, pots, labelling, equipment, pricing. Costs, planning and record keeping.

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

Making sure your garden looks good all year. Using colour, planting styles and plant selection to get the most from your garden. Designing for successional flowering.

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

Sustainable Gardening - £50.00

How can we adapt our planting styles and gardening habits? Gardening without plastics, peat and harmful chemicals. Coping with summer drought and winter wet.

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 ornamental grasses and herbaceous perennials each have to offer and why they are so complementary. How to combine them for best effect.

Tutor: Mary Payne

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. Starting off young plants, overwintering tender plants and gardening all year round.

Tutor: Derry Watkins