Tutor: Paul Herrington
Dates:
Saturday 17th May 2025
Saturday 31st May 2025
Saturday 14th June 2025
Saturday 28th June 2025

Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £320
Location: Classroom

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: Paul Herrington
Dates:
Thursday 18th September 2025
Thursday 2nd October 2025
Thursday 16th October 2025
Thursday 30th October 2025

Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Cost: £320
Location: Classroom

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: Luigi Leoni
Date: Saturday 25th October 2025
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £40
Location: Classroom

This course in fern cultivation and identification aims to cover the fundamentals of this fascinating group of plants. We will cover fern diversity (including some fern families), the Victorian fern craze, and fern biology in order to better understand their growing requirements (temperatures, humidity, growing media, fertilizing, etc.) and behaviour in cultivation. The course will also look at fern propagation, showing how to collect spores and how new plants develop from spores, gemmae and rhizomes.

Tutor: Sally Petitt
Date: Tuesday 9th December 2025
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Cost: £40
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 Sally 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.