About the School

The English Gardening School was founded in 1983 by Rosemary Alexander and provides an unrivalled range of professional and amateur courses concentrating mainly on the more serious aspects of gardening.

Our lecturers and tutors have trained many of today’s leading garden designers, horticulturists, plantsmen and botanical painters. Our distance learning course students span over 20 different countries, and our central London base attracts diploma and short course students from all over the world.

The media often turns to us for aspiring celebrities or for gardening or plant advisors and our botanical painting graduates exhibit their work in highly prestigious international galleries and institutes.

We continue to explore both the classic and contemporary aspects of gardening, regularly adding new topics and tutors to our existing range of long and short courses.

We are now increasing this aspect of the School to allow students anywhere to gain from our tuition. There are now two separate but self-contained courses available, all written by Rosemary Alexander with other tutors.

Garden Design

Covering all aspects of this fascinating subject and a sound basis for developing your own garden.

Maintaining Your Garden - A Practical course in Horticulture

A new, thorough course which divulges all you need to know to make, maintain and plant your garden.

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