Tutor: Ángela Cano
Date: Tuesday 6th February 2024 and Wednesday 7th February 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

Join our Assistant Curator, Dr Ángela Cano, on this two-day introduction to tropical botany. Travelling back in time, you will learn about the dynamic borders of the tropical region, with a focus on the fossil record. You will then study current patterns of geographic distribution of plant diversity on Earth, discovering that it is not homogeneous, but dramatically different between continents. You will fly over the tropical belt to understand which regions have the highest species richness, known as “biodiversity hotspots”, and face the strongest threats. Ángela will then discuss the main factors that threaten this biodiversity and the local and ex situ efforts that are in place to counteract their effects. The second part of the course will focus on plant systematics – understanding how plants have evolved and how taxonomists have classified them. You will focus on different tropical plant groups, starting with non-flowering plants, such as mosses, ferns and conifers and then briefly cover the most representative tropical angiosperm families.

NOTE: A repeat of this course is also being offered later in the year in November.

Tutor: Alan Wanke, Raphaella Hull
Date: Tuesday 7th May 2024 and Tuesday 14th May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £70
Location: Classroom

Join two plant scientists, Alan Wanke and Raphaella Hull, from the University of Cambridge to gain a unique insight into the mysterious world of mycorrhizal fungi. Land plants and fungi have a rich history of interactions across various environments and geological time periods. While some of these interactions can be harmful, leading to plant diseases, others offer mutual benefits to both partners. Notably, partnerships like the mycorrhizal symbiosis between plant roots and fungi play pivotal roles in supporting plant health and maintaining ecosystem balance. They enhance nutrient and water absorption, promote overall plant growth, and aid in stress resilience. This two-part course will unveil the largely unseen plant-fungal interactions that surround us in our daily lives. It will explore the intricate ways in which different kinds of plant-fungal symbioses shape our environment, influence agriculture, and contribute to sustainable ecosystems.

Tutor: Beverley Glover
Date: Monday 20th May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35
Location: Classroom

Join the Botanic Garden Director, Professor Beverley Glover, for this half-day course to explore the concept of colour in plants. Colour in plants is of great cultural importance, influencing many areas of human endeavour including horticulture, art, and gastronomy. Colour also plays a vital role in the biology of plants by absorbing harmful radiation from the sun, capturing light to drive photosynthesis, and signalling the availability of flowers and fruit. This half-day course of lecture, practical demonstration, and garden walk with Botanic Garden Director, Professor Beverley Glover will explore the concept of colour in plants. Beverley will explain how colourful pigments are made, by what mechanisms different colour hues are achieved and for what effect, why some colours are more common than others, and how plants can make structural colour without the use of pigments at all.

Tutor: Ros Bennett
Date: Tuesday 21st May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £70
Location: Classroom

Trees make up one of the most impressive and beautiful features of our landscape - undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of our natural heritage. The different seasons are reflected dramatically in their changing appearance throughout the year. Late May is a great time for looking at broad-leaved trees as their leaves are fully formed and some will still be flowering. This course is concerned with their identification. We will explore the natural history of our native trees and look at how to recognise individual species. The main emphasis will be on trees that are native to Britain, but we will also pay attention to well-established, introduced species. We will practise working with different keys to identification. Part of each day will be spent in the classroom, sorting through specimens, and getting to grips with the terminology of the different shapes of leaves and the different floral designs of those that are still in flower. We shall also spend plenty of time exploring the Botanic Garden for our native trees to put into practice what we have learned. This course is suitable for beginners and all those who love trees. No previous knowledge will be assumed.

Tutor: Ángela Cano, Ros Bennett
Date: Monday 17th June 2024, Tuesday 18th June 2024, Wednesday 19th June 2024, Thursday 20th June 2024, and Friday 21st June 2024
Time: 09:30 - 17:30
Cost: £395
Location: Classroom

This five-day intensive course introduces flowering plant families to committed amateurs, undergraduates, graduates, and professionals. The aim is to develop an understanding of the evolution and systematics of the major plant families and the practical skills needed when approaching the identification of plant material. Teaching is through a combination of practical sessions and lectures covering exemplars of major flowering plant families, with an emphasis on those of North Temperate regions. The course makes extensive use of plant material and the living collections across the Botanic Garden and includes a visit to the University’s Herbarium, housed in the Sainsbury Laboratory.

Tutor: Ros Bennett
Date: Tuesday 9th July 2024 and Wednesday 10th July 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

Our gardens are full of flowers that originated in the Mediterranean, their colours and scents reminding us of sun-baked hillsides, resonating with the ringtones of cicadas. With the increasing reality of global warming, these beautiful and fascinating plants are beginning to gain more than a toehold in the naturalised flora of southern Britain. The theoretical part of this two-day course will look at the full global distribution of the Mediterranean flora but will focus predominantly on the Mediterranean basin itself. We will consider the benefits and constraints of the Mediterranean climate and the remarkable and varied adaptations adopted by the plants that have evolved to cope with it. In addition, we will recognise the role played by many key Mediterranean species in the origins and development of western society. Our focus will be the flora of the Mediterranean Basin with reference to specific locations.

Tutor: Nathan Smith
Date: Monday 9th September 2024 and Tuesday 10th September 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

An introductory course to the science behind fungi. Covering fungal biology and fungal ecology, the course will also examine the wider cultural impact of fungi in art, music, and religion. Participants will be taught what makes a fungus, the fundamentals of fungal identification, and introduced to some of the key debates in mycology today. They will also be guided to available resources and local groups should they wish to continue their fungal adventures.

Tutor: Gwenda Kyd
Date: Wednesday 18th September 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35
Location: Classroom


Join chemist and Bach flower remedy practitioner Gwenda Kyd to explore the benefits of a plant-rich diet. Plants are a very important source of food. This half-day workshop explores the benefits that plants add to our food and drinks – colour, flavour, and texture, as well as nutrients and potentially beneficial medicinal compounds. We will also look at why some plants are popular foods and others less so and identify some of the foods which have attracted the attention of criminals. Weather permitting, we'll see some of these food and drink plants growing in the Garden. By the end of the morning, you’ll never look at the plants on your plate or in your cup in quite the same way again!

Tutor: Karen van Oostrum
Date: Tuesday 24th September and Wednesday 25th September 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

This lively, informative, hands-on course offers complete beginners a relaxed introduction to the world of botany. With plenty of plant material to look at in the classroom, we will investigate the vegetative (leaves, stems, roots) and reproductive (flowers, fruits, and seeds) parts of flowering plants, and start to understand the roles that they perform. Outside in the Garden we can visit the Rising Path to consider the domination of the angiosperms (flowering plants) in the broader context of the whole plant kingdom, and we will make use of the plant collections to explore plant adaptations and the variety of flower forms. There will be time to explore how to use a field guide, with the opportunity to practice and develop your own plant identification skills.

Tutor: Ali Ashby
Date: Monday 21st October 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £70
Location: Classroom

Join Dr Ali Ashby, fungal molecular biologist, on an exploration of the fungal kingdom. Fungi are vital to life on Earth as we know it. Although once grouped with plants, fungi are now recognised as a separate, and arguably one of the largest, kingdom of organisms, with over 5 million species estimated. From microscopic single celled yeasts to one of the largest living organisms on our planet, fungi can be found in just about every habitat on Earth, from the Arctic to the tropics, in the air we breathe, in seas and oceans, in the home and garden – and even as part of the human microbiome. Fungi form beneficial partnerships with plants and animals, they are our planet’s best recyclers, yet they can cause disease and devastate crops. We use fungi in our everyday lives, in food products, as medicines, to help clean up the environment, as building materials and packaging, in fashion and in cleaning products. Fungi will be essential as we move towards a more sustainable future. After all, we could not and would not survive on Earth without them.

Tutor: Ángela Cano
Date: Monday 18th November 2024 and Tuesday 19th November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

Join our Assistant Curator, Dr Ángela Cano, on this two-day introduction to tropical botany. Travelling back in time, you will learn about the dynamic borders of the tropical region, with a focus on the fossil record. You will then study current patterns of geographic distribution of plant diversity on Earth, discovering that it is not homogeneous, but dramatically different between continents. You will fly over the tropical belt to understand which regions have the highest species richness, known as “biodiversity hotspots”, and face the strongest threats. Ángela will then discuss the main factors that threaten this biodiversity and the local and ex situ efforts that are in place to counteract their effects. The second part of the course will focus on plant systematics – understanding how plants have evolved, and how taxonomists have classified them. You will focus on different tropical plant groups, starting with non-flowering plants, such as mosses, ferns and conifers and then briefly cover the most representative tropical angiosperm families.

Tutor: Ros Bennett
Date: Wednesday 27th November 2024 and Thursday 28th November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom


In winter, when there are very few flowers around and most of our native plants have lost their leaves, it is a wonderful opportunity to focus our attention on the conifers – most of which are evergreen and still bear cones. The British flora is remarkably poor in diversity of native conifers, but many introduced species form a major feature in our landscape. And here in the Botanic Gardens at Cambridge we are fortunate to have the opportunity to study a fine collection of this magnificent group of trees. This course is suitable for beginners, including more experienced botanists who have not yet tackled conifers (or tried and failed!) and all those who love trees. No previous knowledge is assumed.

Tutor: Twigs Way
Date: Friday 26th January 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £25
Location: Online

From functional linens and hemps through to luxurious weaves and embroideries, against a background of functional plots, herb gardens and royal palaces, we will explore the overlap between textiles, embroidery, illustration, and gardens from Medieval manors to Early Tudor court.
First part in a monthly series examining the interplay of textiles, fashion, culture, and garden design. Each session is sold separately.

Tutor: Natty Mark
Date: Tuesday 13th February 2024, Tuesday 20th February 2024, Tuesday 27th February 2024, Tuesday 5th March 2024, and Tuesday 12th March 2024
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Cost: £125
Location: Online

Discover the flora of Africa and the Caribbean through its rich folklore. A five-part interactive course - using participatory chant, dialogues, poetry, and proverbs – Rootical folklore celebrates the “Moonlit Classroom”, re-enacting the traditional gatherings around the evening fire, where people first learnt the lessons of life.

Tutor: Laura Mayer
Date: Thursday 15th February 2024
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Cost: £25
Location: Online

Chinoiserie, an early European interest in the Chinese arts, blossomed in Georgian Britain. It encompassed everything from furniture design, textiles, and ceramics to gardening and garden buildings. Soon, every landscape park in the country had a pagoda or teahouse, or a Chinese bridge, barge, or gaudily painted ‘umbrella’ under which to take tea, that most fashionable of imported luxuries. This course examines the politics and expanding trade routes of eighteenth-century Britain, as well as the craze for informal gardening ‘without line or level’, which had been gaining traction since William Temple’s 1685 appraisal of East Asian Garden asymmetry. It reveals what the landscape style owes to Asia’s gardens, and ultimately asks the question, just how English was the English landscape garden after all?

Tutor: Twigs Way
Date: Friday 16th February 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £25
Location: Online

Embroidered clothing and tapestries cover the court in symbolic images of plants and gardens whilst simpler decorative motifs adorn people and places of humbler standing. The earliest sampler (1598) includes floral motifs and books of plants inspire art and crafts. But how do we explain the divergence between traditional decoration and imports of exotic plants? Second part in a monthly series examining the interplay of textiles, fashion, culture, and garden design. Each session is sold separately.

Tutor: Twigs Way
Date: Friday 22nd March 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £25
Location: Online

As the eighteenth-century dawned, gardens and art shifted focus in scale and pattern. Classical motifs match architectural detail and landscape design, whilst there is an influx of rococo decoration from grottos to mantuas. William Kent and William Chambers design both furnishings and landscape, which are then envisioned on clothing and paintings - but where are the flowers? Third part in a monthly series examining the interplay of textiles, fashion, culture, and garden design. Each session is sold separately.

Tutor: Twigs Way
Date: Friday 26th April 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £25
Location: Online

Muslins and cottons, prints and sprigs, influences from India and the growth of merchants. We will explore links between parks and parades of spa towns, Reptonian gardenesque for the newly monied classes, aviaries and exotics for the Regent. Portraits and conversation pieces give us insights into clothing and landscape, as polite society dictate fashion inside and out as literature joins the cultural milieu. Fourth part in a monthly series examining the interplay of textiles, fashion, culture, and garden design. Each session is sold separately.

Tutor: Twigs Way
Date: Friday 24th May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £25
Location: Online

Packed with colour and pattern, interior designs vie with brightly coloured bedding schemes, and artificial flowers inside reflect artifice outside. Rich fashion fabrics are resolutely plain, but do the corsets and constrictions, bustles and flounces mirror the contrivances and deceptions in the garden where topiary and carpet bedding entertain? Inside and out are brought together in the middle-class home where ‘taste’ rules all. Fifth part in a monthly series examining the interplay of textiles, fashion, culture, and garden design. Each session is sold separately.

Tutor: Sally Francis
Date: Tuesday 25th June 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35
Location: Classroom

Find out about the history of this fascinating flower and how to use it in your cookery at home. Saffron is the dried stigmas of an autumn-flowering crocus called Crocus sativus. It is a hugely valuable spice with a fascinating history. Saffron is used around the world to flavour food as well as being used for dyeing, perfumery and in herbal medicine. On this half-day course Sally will introduce you to the history of the cultivation of this fascinating flower and teach you how to get the best from this precious spice in your cookery at home.

Tutor: Twigs Way
Date: Friday 28th June 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £25
Location: Online

As the ‘wild garden’ gained popularity outside, textiles and fashion reflected looser more ‘natural’ fashions inside. Flowers decorated hats and house parties, whilst sports for all dictated both clothing and landscapes, as tennis courts and croquet invaded the country house landscape. ‘Allotment fashion’ appears on postcards and down the plot, and women in bloomers bicycled to Tea Gardens laid out in fashionable rustic style. The sixth and final part in our chronological monthly series examining the interplay of textiles, fashion, culture, and garden design will include the influence of sport and leisure on landscapes and fashions. Each session is sold separately.

Tutor: Twigs Way
Date: Friday 20th September 2024, Friday 25th October 2024, and Friday 22nd November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £105
Location: Classroom

This short series of three linked sessions will each explore in detail distinct artists/artistic schools which drew for inspiration on gardens, garden design and planting, but impacted in different ways on textiles, fashion, and culture more broadly. Focusing mainly on the English experience but including in the first session a pairing of English and Spanish (Sargent and Sorolla) with further reference to French impressionists in England. The aim of these sessions is to explore the ways in which gardens and design integrate into other aspects of culture and arts by focusing on specific examples.

Tutor: Nathan Smith
Date: Monday 14th October 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £25
Location: Online

A history of science course that will cover how mycology came to be recognised as a subject. Covering the 19th and early 20th century, the course will give an overview of the key events in the early history of mycology and will explore topics such as the history of the microscope, the history of scientific societies, and the role of museums. Participants will also be guided through available resources enabling them to conduct further reading and, if they desire, their own research into this underexplored topic.

Tutor: Laura Mayer
Date: Wednesday 16th October 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £25
Location: Online

The architect and designer Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, born in 1716, is credited with formulating the iconic English landscape garden. Even today, his rolling lawns, scattered with tree clumps and ornamented with glittering lakes, continue to define our perception of rural Britain. As a result, his hundreds of landscapes have eclipsed the study of eighteenth-century garden history almost entirely. But how many of those schemes were genuinely Brown’s sole vision? And when we look at the man behind the name, what, in fact, was his true ‘capability’? This course examines, possibly controversially, that it was not just his aesthetic insight – nor even his practical gardening talents – that set Brown apart from his peers, but something entirely more mercenary.

Tutor: Penny Price
Date: Tuesday 26th March 2024, Wednesday 27th March 2024, and Thursday 28th March 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £180
Location: Classroom

Join botanical artist Penny Price to cover the basics of watercolour technique by focusing on early spring flowers such as cyclamen. This three-day course will demonstrate how to add pattern and light on leaves and how flowers can be incorporated to make a pleasing composition in watercolour on paper. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course. Open to all levels with group and individual guidance.

Tutor: Caroline Henricksen
Date: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

Join us at the Botanic Garden for a relaxed and creative day of sketching ‘en plein air’ with botanical artist Caroline Henricksen. The taster session will focus on close-up observational drawing as well as quick preparatory sketches to be used in later compositions. With teacher demonstrations, advice, and in particular individual tuition, this is a perfect workshop for beginners or those looking to improve their drawing technique. Materials will be provided including sketchbooks, paper, a variety of artist quality graphite pencils, graphite sticks etc, boards, stools and easels, along with refreshments. We are likely to be outdoors most of the day so please dress appropriately.

Tutor: John Wiltshire
Date: Tuesday 30th April 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom


Explore, experience, and learn how watercolour works with professional painter John Wiltshire. On this beginners’ course you will explore watercolour techniques and make an observational painting in the Botanic Garden. You will be guided through the basics of watercolour technique with simple and effective demonstrations to experience and learn how it works with professional painter, John Wiltshire. By the end of this introductory day, you may surprise yourself with what you can achieve with the right materials and some practical tips to boost your confidence with watercolour. Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring any materials that you would prefer to use.

Tutor: Janie Pirie
Date: Wednesday 1st May 2024, Thursday 2nd May 2024, and Friday 3rd May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £180
Location: Classroom

The most glorious flower in late spring must be the tulip. They come in many shapes and colours and appear to be incredibly regimental when growing in the garden. Cut them and their stems bend beautifully, their heads hang. They are a botanical illustrator’s dream subject. This three-day course will give you the opportunity to study the simple shapes of a variety of tulips, to create a pure botanical illustration, with dissections, or a group of several stems in the style of the Old Masters. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course. Open to all levels with group and individual guidance.

Tutor: Reinhild Raistrick
Date: Thursday 9th May 2024 and Friday 10th May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

The month of May sees the Botanic Garden at a magical time of year. Colourful blooms vie for our attention, from deep purple iris to bright red peonies, from pink Prunus blossom to white lace cow parsley. All these to add to the painter’s palette. Reinhild will help you create a painted bouquet or a portrait of an individual flower, using various watercolour techniques. The larger blooms will require a wet-in-wet method with dry brush work needed for the finer detail. This will be through group demonstration, but mainly through individual guidance. As always, an important element of the course is observation of the plant, a true portrayal of it through drawing and painting, and lastly the sheer joy of it. This course is suitable for all levels with group and individual guidance. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course.

Tutor: Lizzie Harper
Date: Wednesday 15th May 2024, Thursday 16th May 2024, and Friday 17th May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £180
Location: Classroom

This workshop will look at leaf variety and is a chance to take plenty of time to study and illustrate one leaf in detail in watercolour. We’ll look at using watercolour and mixing greens, shadows, veins and patterns on a leaf, and how to build up layers of colour and detail. If there’s time, you’ll be able to work on more than one leaf, comparing colour, shape, and vein structure. Lizzie will be on hand throughout the course doing demonstrations, teaching, and giving one-to-one advice and tips. This course is suitable for all levels with group and individual guidance. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course.

Tutor: John Wiltshire
Date: Tuesday 4th June 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

Improve your watercolour technique and develop as a watercolour painter with John Wiltshire. This course is designed to build on your existing experience with watercolour and provide you with tools which will help you to continue to grow as a watercolour painter. Over the session you will be introduced to various approaches and methods to apply your own painterly vision to your practice. We will look at the Botanic Garden and how to approach this exciting and vibrant subject for yourself ‘en plein air’. You will be briefly revisiting the basics of watercolour technique and introduced to practical applications of a limited palette technique. Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring any materials that you would prefer to use.

Tutor: Lizzie Harper
Date: Tuesday 11th June 2024 and Wednesday 12th June 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

This two-day course introduces the idea of keeping a botanical sketchbook, why it’s useful, compares different people’s approach, and will allow students the chance to illustrate plants in situ in the Botanic Garden. We’ll also take a quick look at what botanical details to include, and why leaving work as an unfinished sketch can be very liberating. As it’ll be a primarily outdoor session, it’s more suitable for those who are comfortable working on camp stools or sitting on the ground. Suitable for all levels, although a bit of experience with watercolour and pencil could be an advantage. And don’t worry, if it’s wet, we’ll move the session indoors! A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course.

Tutor: Caroline Henricksen
Date: Thursday 27th June 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

Taking inspiration from the Botanic Garden, come and join Caroline Henricksen for a fun relaxing and creative day paper collaging flowers. Caroline will take you through the process she uses to create her botanical collage pieces, starting with you creating your own collage surfaces using paints, foliage, vintage paper, magazines, old books, wallpaper, and even toothbrush and scissors. Just about anything can be used to collage. Playing with patterns and textures can produce some interesting and quite beautiful results. This workshop is aimed at beginners through to more accomplished artists who want to try something new. Caroline will be on hand throughout to give lots of one-to-one tuition. Students are welcome to bring in their own materials that they would like to work with (for example old prints, poems, books) but everything is provided on the day. Just turn up and create!

Tutor: John Wiltshire
Date: Tuesday 2nd July 2024 and Wednesday 3rd July 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £150
Location: Classroom

Improve your oil painting skills with professional painter John Wiltshire. On this two-day course in oil painting technique, professional artist John Wiltshire will demonstrate techniques and approaches to oil painting in the open air. With enough time to create your own painting this is a rare opportunity to work in the beautiful historic setting of the Botanic Garden and explore oil painting over an extended period. Use the techniques of ‘il primatura’ and ‘a la prima’ painting and expect to learn some of the ‘tricks of the trade’ that will enhance and accelerate your own painting so that you will come away with practical insight into how to develop as a painter. Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring any materials that you would prefer to use. This course is suitable for beginners or those looking to improve their painting technique.

Tutor: Janie Pirie
Date: Thursday 4th July 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £55
Location: Online

Sit in the comfort of your own home and follow Janie with this step-by-step lesson on ‘painting’ a beautiful rose bud using coloured pencils. This online workshop will give you the chance to learn some of the basic techniques of illustrating a botanical subject using coloured pencils. Using a limited colour palette Janie will show you how to achieve a beautifully painterly effect with coloured pencils, incorporating smooth gradations, showing you how to tackle fine details and using shine to create form. The price includes a kit of coloured pencils, sheets of art paper, and rubbers. The pack will be sent out in advance of the course and contains everything you will need to complete your drawing, including simple instructions for how to do a preliminary drawing to prepare for the course. Suitable for beginners or for those wanting to brush up on their techniques.

Tutor: Janie Pirie
Date: Wednesday 17th July 2024, Thursday 18th July 2024, and Friday 19th July 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £180
Location: Classroom

There is nothing more exciting than learning how to show the glossiness of bright summer berries. Cherries are particularly beautiful, but there are many others to choose from, such as blueberries, redcurrants, blackcurrant, raspberries… the list goes on. This course will cover drawing, composition, and colouring with good quality-coloured pencils. The result will be a piece of work that is dripping with juiciness! This course is suitable for beginners and those wanting to develop their drawing technique. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course.

Tutor: Janie Pirie
Date: Wednesday 4th September 2024, Thursday 5th September 2024, and Friday 6th September 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £180
Location: Classroom

A cook’s cupboard isn’t complete without a variety of herbs and spices. However, they don’t get to be observed when used in culinary situations. This three-day course will give you an opportunity to study them closely and find a beauty you didn’t know existed. There are so many varieties of pepper, from very small (and fiercely hot) to large. Lemongrass, ginger, chives, mint, sage, dill, coriander, parsley – an endless list of exciting subjects. You could choose to illustrate several on one page – those that you would need to make a curry or a Thai dish perhaps, or you can just make a study of herbs or spices. Drawing and composition will also be covered, as well as the best techniques to apply to coloured pencil work to make it look ‘painterly’ and three-dimensional. This course is suitable for beginners and those wanting to develop their drawing technique. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course.

Tutor: Penny Price
Date: Wednesday 11th September 2024, Thursday 12th September 2024, and Friday 13th September 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £180
Location: Classroom

Join botanical artist Penny Price to cover the learn the basics of watercolour technique by focusing on onions and garlic. The shine on an onion and the papery quality of a garlic bulb are challenging but rewarding. Cut open to reveal patterns or left whole, these shiny, reflective materials provide an opportunity to develop your watercolour technique. Starting first with pencils, we can study their shape and paint them in watercolour. Some specimens will be provided, but you are free to bring some of your own choice too. Open to all levels with group and individual guidance. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course.

Tutor: Lizzie Harper
Date: Tuesday 1st October 2024 and Wednesday 2nd October 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

This workshop takes two days to experiment with botanical illustration in pencil, covering line drawing on day one and tonal studies on day two. We’ll touch on composition, do some basic botany required for accurate illustration, have tutor demos, and the chance to draw parts and/or whole plants from the garden. Plants from the Botanic Garden will be provided, but you are free to bring some of your own choice too. Open to all levels with group and individual guidance. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks prior to the course.

Tutor: Reinhild Raistrick
Date: Tuesday 22nd October 2024 and Wednesday 23rd October 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

On this two-day watercolour course, you will focus on the brightly coloured fruit and leaves that adorn the Botanic Garden at this time of year, together with the mysterious world of fungi that grow beneath their branches. The combination of these will give you the opportunity to paint a scene of fungi growing in their natural habitat. Or you might wish to do individual studies of the variously coloured and shaped mushrooms. We will have a wide selection of specimens that will have been carefully gathered for our use. Painting fungi and leaves requires different watercolour techniques, from wet-in-wet to dry brush work. Reinhild will use a combination of group demonstration, but particularly individual tuition, to help you to improve your drawing and painting techniques. This course is suitable for beginners and those wanting to develop their watercolour technique. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course.

Tutor: John Wiltshire
Date: Monday 4th November 2024 and Monday 11th November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £95
Location: Online

Draw the Botanic Garden from the comfort of your own home with professional painter John Wiltshire. During this online course we will take our time to pay attention to the pinetum area of the Botanic Garden so that you will be able to distinguish one tree from another and describe the essence of these differences in drawings. Using various approaches with pencil and graphite, you will learn to improve both your mark making and your observation on this course. The price includes a kit of required material. The pack will be sent out in advance of the course and contains everything you will need to complete your drawing. This course is suitable for all levels.

Tutor: Penny Price
Date: Wednesday 13th November 2024, Thursday 14th November 2024, and Friday 15th November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £180
Location: Classroom

A three-day workshop designing a floral painting in watercolour, with a gilded background using gold leaf. Gilding techniques will be taught, and help given on final designs. Plants from the Botanic Garden will be provided, but you are free to bring some of your own choice too. Open to all levels with group and individual guidance. A suggested materials list will be provided a few weeks before the start of the course. Penny will supply the gold leaf and acrylic gold.

Tutor: Paul Herrington
Date: Wednesday 24th April 2024, Wednesday 8th May 2024, Wednesday 22nd May 2024, and Wednesday 5th June 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £280.00
Location: Classroom

Expert advice from RHS medal-winning garden designer Paul Herrington on designing your own garden. Across four sessions you will explore design principles, ideas and inspiration, simple surveying and scale drawing, planning for the right plant in the right place as well as developing a layout plan for your own garden and how to ensure year-round structure and interest. Numbers on this course are limited to ensure plenty of opportunities for support and discussion with the tutor and fellow participants. The price is for all four sessions which cannot be booked individually.

Tutor: Ian Limmer
Date: Tuesday 5th November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £70.00
Location: Classroom

This one-day course led by rosarian expert Ian Limmer from Peter Beales Roses Ltd will help you to get the most from your roses. During the course, Ian will aim to cover planting bare root and container roses, transplanting mature roses, growing roses in pots, and pruning modern, shrub, procumbent, climbing, and rambling roses. There will also be the opportunity for questions and answers. No special equipment is required but you may like to bring a notebook and pen. Teaching will take place both in the Classroom and outside so please wear suitable clothing and footwear.

Tutor: Peter Wrapson
Date: Saturday 6th July 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £70.00
Location: Classroom

Join the Botanic Garden’s expert fruit and vegetable grower Peter Wrapson on this day course, to learn how to select and look after your fruit plants. This workshop on growing hardy fruit will look at various fruit trees as well as fruiting canes and bushes, and herbaceous plants such as strawberries. It will cover the selection of varieties, plant care, basic pruning, propagation, and harvesting, and address their different requirements. It will highlight seasonal tasks and will include a discussion about soil health and plant nutrition, helping attendees to plan their plantings and make the most of their growing space. This course is scheduled in the summer to allow you to begin planning your fruit garden in time for planting in the autumn and winter. Generally speaking, summer is not the time of year for pruning, so this will be covered in theory only. Practical demonstrations will include some planting and propagation.

Tutor: Peter Wrapson
Date: Saturday 9th March 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £70.00
Location: Classroom

Learn how to make the most of your vegetable garden with the Botanic Garden’s fruit and vegetable grower Peter Wrapson. This day-long course on vegetable gardening will cover seed sowing, raising seedlings, planting, plant care, and harvesting, addressing the requirements of different vegetable crops. It will highlight seasonal tasks and will include a discussion about soil health and plant nutrition, helping attendees to plan their planting strategy and make the most of their growing space. Part of the afternoon will be spent in the nursery glasshouse and the Schools Garden practising some of the horticultural techniques discussed.

Tutor: Luigi Leoni, Phil Gould
Date: Saturday 30th March 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35.00
Location: Classroom

Learn about orchid cultivation and propagation of this incredibly interesting and diverse plant family with Botanic Garden experts Luigi Leoni and Phil Gould. This is for anyone who has a passion for orchids or has just received an orchid as a present and wants to take care of it the best way. There will be a presentation to explore the botanical diversity of orchids, and their importance through history in different cultures and science, as well as covering the most current knowledge of how orchids are cultivated (temperatures, humidity, growing media, fertilizing, etc.). There will then be a practical session showing the plants that we have in the collection at the Botanic Garden and the way they can be propagated.

Tutor: Katie Sarll
Date: Saturday 24th February 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £70.00
Location: Classroom

Expert advice from the Botanic Garden’s Experimental and Nursery Horticulturalist Katie Sarll on propagation techniques for succulent plants. Would you like to understand how plants grow and reproduce in the enticing world of succulents? Then come and join our beginner’s course! Learn how to propagate and grow succulents from cuttings and explore the substrates in which to grow them. Learn propagation methods: stem, seed, leaf, rosette cuttings, and plantlets. Delve into cacti propagation: globular, columnar or flat stem cuttings, as well as grafting and division. The course will include both practical and theoretical elements, including a tour of the succulent and cacti collection at the Botanic Garden.

Tutor: Paul Herrington
Date: Thursday 19th September 2024, Thursday 3rd October 2024, Thursday 17th October 2024, and Thursday 31st October 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £280.00
Location: Classroom

Extend your garden design skills with Paul Herrington. This course would be perfect for learners with some experience of garden design and who have completed the Introduction to Garden Design course at the Botanic Garden or similar elsewhere. Course content is flexible and will be tailored to the needs of the learner group. It will be most meaningful for those who have a garden design or redesign in mind and would like to dive deeper into details such as planting schemes, hard landscaping, water features and garden lighting. Numbers on this course are limited to ensure plenty of opportunities for support and discussion with the tutor and fellow participants. The price is for all four sessions which cannot be booked individually.

Tutor: Paul Herrington
Date: Saturday 20th January 2024, Saturday 3rd February 2024, Saturday 17th February 2024, Saturday 2nd March 2024, and Saturday 16th March 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £125.00
Location: Online

Join RHS medal-winning garden designer Paul Herrington and start designing your own garden. Across five sessions you will explore design principles, ideas and inspiration, simple surveying and scale drawing, planning for the right plant in the right place, as well as developing a layout plan for your own garden and learning how to ensure year-round structure and interest. Numbers on this course are limited to ensure plenty of opportunities for support and discussion with the tutor and fellow participants. The price is for all five sessions which cannot be booked individually.

Tutor: Andrea Topalovic Arthan
Date: Saturday 9th November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35.00
Location: Classroom

On this half-day course, Senior Horticulturalist from the Botanic Garden, Andrea Topalovic Arthan, will show you how to create and look after your herbaceous perennial beds. The course will cover basic care and maintenance techniques to create a successful and long-lasting planting scheme. The workshop will address different planting styles and the reasons for using perennial plants in these schemes. It will highlight seasonal tasks including planting, plant establishment, and various pruning techniques including deadheading and pinching. The attendees will have an opportunity to work on the Herbaceous Island Beds and learn about autumn maintenance work including cutting back, plant division, and mulching.

Tutor: Andrea Topalovic Arthan
Date: Saturday 16th March 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35.00
Location: Classroom

Join our Senior Horticulturalist Andrea Topalovic Arthan on this half-day course to learn the principles and techniques of maintenance and renovative pruning. This hands-on workshop will cover the theory and practice of pruning deciduous shrubs. It will discuss different pruning scenarios including when and how to prune. It will cover the different tools, techniques, and principles used in maintenance and renovative pruning. The workshop will also address aftercare needs including watering, feeding, and mulching. The attendees will have an opportunity to put their newly learned knowledge and skills into practice under guidance, by having a go at pruning different shrubs in the Winter Garden.

Tutor: Andrea Topalovic Arthan
Date: Saturday 10th February 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35.00
Location: Classroom

A half-day course with Senior Horticulturalist Andrea Topalovic Arthan to learn how to prune your roses. Do you want to learn how to keep your roses healthy, flowering, and under control? This course will cover the theory and practice of pruning shrub, climbing, and rambling roses. The workshop will discuss several pruning scenarios including when and how to prune. It will cover the different tools, techniques, and principles used in maintenance and renovative pruning. The workshop will also address aftercare needs including how to correctly deadhead roses and identify common pests and diseases. The attendees will have an opportunity to put their newly learned knowledge and skills into practice under guidance, by having a go at pruning roses in our Rose Garden. Suitable both for people new to growing roses and those who want to understand more about how to care for their existing plants.

Tutor: Paul Herrington
Date: Thursday 14th March 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £70.00
Location: Classroom

Right plant, right place… we’ve all heard that before, right? But what does it mean and how can we achieve it in our own gardens? Join Paul Herrington for an informal, relaxed course covering the basics of garden design. You’ll go away with a greater understanding and appreciation of micro-climates, soil types, plant choices, and planting styles. Importantly, you will develop a clear framework for how to apply all of this to your garden borders, whatever their size, and wherever they may be.

Tutor: Paul Herrington
Date: Wednesday 17th January 2024, Wednesday 24th January 2024, and Wednesday 31st January 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £75.00
Location: Online

A fun and relaxed course over three morning sessions to help you design or re-think your own garden. Join RHS medal-winning garden designer Paul Herrington for advice on how to deal effectively with small gardens, which have their own practical challenges such as a lack of privacy, heavy shade, poor soil, and visually dominant fences or walls. Over three separate half-day sessions Paul will guide you so that you come away with clear ideas of how your garden can look. Numbers on this course are limited to ensure plenty of opportunities for support and discussion with the tutor and fellow participants. The price is for all three sessions which cannot be booked individually.

Tutor: Sally Petitt
Date: Tuesday 3rd December 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35.00
Location: Classroom

Winter is often considered off-season for many gardeners, but there are many plants which can enhance even the smallest garden over the winter period. Join Head of Horticulture Sally Petitt on this half-day course as she discusses ways to add interest to your own patch, provides tips on which plants will bring valuable colour to your garden in winter, and takes you on a tour of our acclaimed Winter Garden.

Tutor: Maike Dring
Date: Thursday 1st February 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £40
Location: Classroom

Discover how you can use Aromatherapy essential oils to support your health and wellbeing during the winter months. We explore the use of essential oils to counteract colds, coughs, poor circulation, challenges to our skin and more caused by the colder season. Learn how to prepare essential oils to use safely in the home setting on your skin, in the bath, for compresses, inhalations and more. This is very much a practical course giving you demonstrations of how to blend essential oils ready to use. A demonstration and guided hand massage addressing some cold symptoms is included. Course notes and materials provided. No previous experience necessary. Participants take home an Aromatherapy blend to help with cold symptoms.

Tutor: Maike Dring
Date: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

We explore the use of Aromatherapy essential oils to enhance women’s hormonal health from puberty to menopause. Plenty of practical tips and techniques to use in the home setting to gain the many benefits essential oils can offer to women of all ages. Demonstration and a guided hand hand-massage to aid relaxation for all participants. Course notes and materials provided. No previous experience necessary. Each participant will take home a hand cream and massage oil.

Tutor: Nick Gosman
Date: Thursday 21st March 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

In ancient times, woodlands provided everything we needed from building materials, food, firewood, herbal remedies, and natural dyes, but have you ever wondered how early craftspeople made what they needed using wood cut from the forest using simple tools like the axe and knife? This course is your opportunity to find out! No prior knowledge or experience of woodcarving is required, and all tools and materials are provided. Botanist, plant geneticist, and woodcarver Nick Gosman will take you through how to sharp tools safely, which tools to buy, and basic carving techniques. At the end of the day, you’ll take home your own spoon.

Tutor: Karin Eklund
Date: Saturday 27th April 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

Discover fun methods to develop your sketching in the Botanic Garden with illustrator Karin Eklund. Keeping a sketchbook is the best habit an artist can have. The more you draw from reality the easier it will be to develop your own style and compositions. Using the garden and greenhouses as our starting point, Karin will give creative prompts to get us started and introduce new materials and techniques. You can expect a joyful, creative, and explorative approach set in a friendly and informative atmosphere. Mostly we will be working in our sketchbooks and a suggested material list will be supplied a few weeks before the start of the course. This course is suitable for all levels.

Tutor: Susie Turner
Date: Wednesday 29th May 2024 and Thursday 30th May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £150
Location: Classroom

This two-day workshop will introduce participants to an innovative and versatile method of fine art printmaking using sunlight and water. Solarplate describes the process of printmaking from light sensitive plates that have been exposed to daylight or an artificial source of UV light. The plates are developed in tap water and can be used for relief and intaglio printing. The main advantage is the plate can hold much detail and offers versatility in image making - participants will be able to transform collected foliage, hand drawn originals and photographs into unique fine art prints. Some preparation of artwork would be useful in advance though not essential. If you would like to work from your own imagery, guidance on how to prepare artwork in advance will be provided. This course is suitable for complete beginners and for those with an interest in plants, nature printing and botanical art.

Tutor: Emma James
Date: Thursday 6th June 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

Drawing inspiration from a selection of leaves collected, sketched, and photographed the Botanic Garden, you will create your own leaves using linocut. Using the ‘reduction process’, we’ll create a layered image using two sets of autumnal colour palettes. The course is suitable for beginners as well as those with some experience of linocut techniques. Materials and some tools will be available to use, but you will need your own set of lino cutting tools, as well as a box or folder to take away your prints.

Tutor: Paula Edgington
Date: Friday 7th June 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £65
Location: Classroom

Learn how to make your own beautiful hand tied bouquet. You will be guided step by step on how to prepare the stems and construct your bouquet. In addition, you will be shown how you can gift wrap any bouquets you make in the future. Everything you need is provided, and you can take home your own hand-tied bouquet. This course is suitable for all levels.

Tutor: Nabil Ali
Date: Thursday 11th July 2024 and Friday 12th July 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £135
Location: Classroom

With plant material collected from the Botanic Garden, you will re-create paint making processes using documented recipes from historical manuscripts and ancient sources. The workshop aims to give you the tools to go on to establish your own paint systems by utilising plants from your own garden or inspiring you to try growing some new ones to support your new-found skills. Having learnt the basics, you will explore colour compositions, practical paint layering systems, a variety of natural binders and fillers, preservatives, and coloured egg glazes to create a range of samples and images. During the workshop you will also have access to Nabil’s 'organic paint recipe archive' detailing in-depth insight into the practical foundations for paint making using common and unusual plants. This course is open to all levels and all the materials you need will be provided.

Tutor: Grace Hailstone
Date: Tuesday 16th July 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

Join Printmaker Grace Hailstone for a day-long course exploring the art of Monoprinting. Make unique monoprints exploring silhouettes of leaves and ‘ghost prints’ using a miniature etching press. Working with positive and negative shapes, spacing and texture, we will create unique original prints on cotton-based paper using real leaves and materials. Participants can bring collected organic materials to print with, materials will also be provided. We will begin with making simple silhouettes then expanding to create multi layered images full of organic shapes and textures. Image sizes will be a maximum of 10 cm. This course is open to all levels.

Tutor: Susie Turner
Date: Thursday 25th July 2024 and Friday 26th July 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £150
Location: Classroom

This practical workshop will introduce participants to the simple technique of Cyanotype using the rich collection of foliage and found objects in the Botanic Garden as inspiration. Participants will learn how to transfer botanical specimens, found objects, drawings, and photographs into unique Cyanotype prints using a range of suitable papers and ready-made cyanotype sensitizer solution. There will also be the opportunity to work with pre-coated fabric. This course is suitable for all levels.

Tutor: Nabil Ali
Date: Tuesday 15th October 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

Learn the basic processes and techniques of paint production from plants. A colour workshop to create a plant-based watercolour–gouache paint using three historical dye plants: Madder (Rubia tinctoria) – red, Weld (Reseda luteola) – yellow and Woad / Indigo (Isatis tinctoria / Indigofera tinctoria) – blue. Participants will understand the basic theory of the making processes and knowledge of growing the plants to store for paint production. The course will also explore examples of art and textiles that have utilised these three colourants over the centuries in different cultures and how organic colourings became less important in favour of William Henry Perkin’s discoveries of synthetic purple dye which changed the world. The course is for all levels of ability.

Tutor: Susie Turner
Date: Tuesday 29th October 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £75
Location: Classroom

This one-day workshop will introduce participants to the simple but effective method of monoprinting directly using a selection of pressed autumnal leaves as primary source material. Monoprinting is the method of producing one or several unique prints. The technique offers fine detail and versatility in image making. During this one-day workshop, participants will learn how to make monoprints using oil-based water washable inks, a small professional printing press as well as learn how to print without a press, using hand burnishing techniques. The course is open to all levels and materials will be provided.

Tutor: Emma James
Date: Thursday 7th November 2024 and Friday 8th November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £150
Location: Classroom

Drawing inspiration from plants and view in the glasshouses in the Botanic Garden, we will adapt a sketch or photograph and transfer your image into a reduction linocut. Using the ‘reduction process’, create a layered image using two contrasting colour palettes. The course is suitable for beginners as well as those with some experience of linocut techniques. Materials and some tools will be available to use, but you will need your own set of lino cutting tools, as well as a box or folder to take away your prints.

Tutor: Maike Dring
Date: Friday 29th November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £65
Location: Classroom


Get into the spirit of Christmas! Discover how to use Aromatherapy essential oils to create that special Christmas scent in your home. Explore the many ways in which essential oils can make and enhance Christmas presents. We make aromatic bath salts and create a personal perfume pulse oil as an early Christmas present for ourselves! Finally, take a special essential oil blend home to create a lovely Christmas atmosphere. Course notes and materials provided. Spaces on this course are limited to make time for plenty of 1:1 guidance.

Tutor: Paula Edgington
Date: Thursday 5th December 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £70
Location: Classroom

Join florist Paula Edgington to start your festive season and make your own garden-inspired festive wreath. No previous experience is needed as you will be taken through the process step-by-step. The wreath will be made from scratch and will have a moss-based ring. You will then cover it in a selection of festive evergreen foliage and berries which have been gathered from the Botanic Garden, followed by a choice of decorations from natural pinecones, cinnamon bundles, dried fruit and more, and finally a ribbon to hang it up. Come and have fun, learn a new skill, be creative and leave with your very own handmade festive wreath for your front door. This course is suitable for all levels and everything you need is provided.

NOTE: This event is organised by CUBG Learning Office and not CUBG Friends. Bookings for the annual Friends’ Wreath-Making Workshop with Sam Cotterell can be made via the What’s On pages.

Tutor: Paula Edgington
Date: Friday 6th December 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £70
Location: Classroom

Join florist Paula Edgington to start your festive season and make your own garden-inspired festive wreath. No previous experience is needed as you will be taken through the process step-by-step. The wreath will be made from scratch and will have a moss-based ring. You will then cover it in a selection of festive evergreen foliage and berries which have been gathered from the Botanic Garden, followed by a choice of decorations from natural pinecones, cinnamon bundles, dried fruit and more, and finally a ribbon to hang it up. Come and have fun, learn a new skill, be creative and leave with your very own handmade festive wreath for your front door. This course is suitable for all levels and everything you need is provided.

NOTE: This event is organised by CUBG Learning Office and not CUBG Friends. Bookings for the annual Friends’ Wreath-Making Workshop with Sam Cotterell can be made via the What’s On pages.

Tutor: Catherine Tregaskes
Date: Tuesday 8th October 2024 and Wednesday 9th October 2024
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £165
Location: Classroom

In this course, we will use a variety of willows to make a round or oval basket. Beginners would be able to make a round basket with a traditional or contemporary handle. Improvers can make a round basket and try different weaves or make an oval basket if they are confident in the steps required to make a round basket. No qualifications are required; however, you do need reasonable dexterity and strength in your hands to be able to manipulate the willow. Please let me know if you are hard of hearing, so I can ensure you hear everything you need to fully participate in the course. All materials and equipment will be supplied. Numbers on this course are limited to ensure 1:1 guidance from Catherine.

Tutor: Catherine Tregaskes
Date: Wednesday 20th November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £40
Location: Classroom

We will use different varieties of willow as a material to make a range of Christmas themed decorations including reindeer, angels, and trees. This course is suitable for all abilities. No qualifications are required; however, you do need reasonable dexterity and strength in your hands to be able to manipulate the willow. Please let me know if you are hard of hearing, so I can ensure you hear everything you need to fully participate in the course. All materials and equipment will be supplied. Numbers on this course are limited to ensure 1:1 guidance from Catherine.

Tutor: Catherine Tregaskes
Date: Thursday 21st November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £40
Location: Classroom

We will use different varieties of willow as a material to make a range of Christmas themed decorations including reindeer, angels, and trees. This course is suitable for all abilities. No qualifications are required; however, you do need reasonable dexterity and strength in your hands to be able to manipulate the willow. Please let me know if you are hard of hearing, so I can ensure you hear everything you need to fully participate in the course. All materials and equipment will be supplied. Numbers on this course are limited to ensure 1:1 guidance from Catherine.

Tutor: Ian Olsson
Date: Tuesday 17th September 2024
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £35
Location: Classroom

Learn how to make the most out of your mobile phone camera on this half day course. Moving from a quick snap in fully auto mode, to creating beautiful photos you would love to print and hang on the wall! Join Cambridge based professional photographer Ian Olsson for a fun, interactive workshop to learn all about phone photography and editing. Including a walk around the Garden to take your own photos, which you can then edit during the session. Suitable for Android and iPhone.