Gardening -Make your Garden Borders Beautiful

This course will be held in the beautiful English country garden of Prospect House in Burton Leonard.  The garden contains a cutting patch, trained fruit trees, shrub borders, herbaceous borders and a new woodland area. The course will use these facilities to demonstrate techniques and skills used to maintain and enhance the garden.

The course will take place using both the potting shed classroom and the 1 acre garden as our workshop.  Students will have an opportunity to have hands on practise at core gardening skills, while learning the principles of design and good horticultural techniques.  Given the vagaries of the British weather we ask that you bring warm clothes and a pair of good gardening gloves.

We will be covering the following topics

Discussing garden styles and plot survey

Analysing soil conditions: discussing habitats for right plant, right place

Maintenance requirements: pruning, training, weeding, pest care, mulching

Seasonal plants and cut flower gardens

Propagating: seeds. Cuttings, division to maintain the health of plants

Designing the border - getting the planting plan on paper