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Ten Week Certificate Course in Garden Design
10 days (1 day a week) with Simon Pyle, Rachel Myers and Greg Leeson
10,17,22,29 January, 7,21,28 February, 6,13,20 March 2008
£1350 inclusive of VAT and lunch
A highly concentrated course serving as an introduction to the garden design process. The structured classes will cover major design elements including surveying, drawing techniques, hard landscaping, water, planting, visuals and specification. Students will be set a design brief and are expected to complete weekly set work in their own time (approximately 1-2 days per week). Our certificate will be awarded for satisfactory work. Class size is limited to 20, and the course takes place over 11 weeks as there is a break for half term.
Simon Pyle Dip EGS is Vice Principal of The English Gardening School, a tutor on our Diploma Course in Garden Design and various short courses.
Rachel Myers obtained the EGS Diploma in Garden Design and now runs her own garden design practice in Oxford. Her work is featured in the book The Book of Garden Plans.
Gregory Leeson has developed and taught garden design courses at Kew, and has also run his own landscape design and construction company.
Gardening for Beginners - Basic Horticulture
3-day course with Steven Bradley
16, 23, 30 January 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£360 inclusive of VAT and lunch
An intensive course to give the novice gardener the confidence and skill to create and maintain a healthy garden. Learn how plants work and what they need to survive plus advice on where to begin. Step-by-step techniques cover everything from sowing seeds and arranging plants in a border, to laying a lawn and pruning. Our aim is to give you the confidence to plan and plant your garden and deal with problems such as weeds, pests and diseases. A hands-on workshop limited to 25 participants. Especially suitable for the complete beginner.
Steven Bradley MHort (RHS) MA is a garden writer, broadcaster and Chelsea Flower Show medal winner. A regular broadcaster, he is the author of more than 30 books.
Low Maintenance Garden
1-day course with Rachel Myers and Nick Tripp
26 February 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£125 inclusive of VAT and lunch
A new course aimed at the time conscious gardener to help select appropriate plants for a low maintenance garden, including how to adapt an exsisting site and rationalising the hard landscaping to enable you to love your garden with the minimum time spent on maintenance care.
Rachel Myers obtained the EGS Diploma in Garden Design and now runs her own garden design practice in Oxford. Her work is featured in the book The Book of Garden Plans.
Nicholas Tripp trained in garden design at the
Garden Transformations
1-day course with Bunny Guinness
27 February 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£135 inclusive of VAT and lunch
Push back the boundaries of garden design with tantalising and quirky ideas to give your garden contemporary style. Bunny Guinness reveals the practical know-how to transform an ordinary outdoor space using trompe l'oeil, earthmounding and living sculpture. Learn the techniques to create fake lead, imitation stonework and distressed finishes. In the afternoon, Rosemary Alexander will show you how to give your garden a professional finish, demonstrating simple and effective ideas for various elements of designing and planting.
Bunny Guinness is a garden designer and landscape architect. The author of Family Gardens, Garden Transformations and Garden Workshop she has won six RHS gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show for her innovative designs. She is a panellist for Gardeners' Question Time and writes a column for The Sunday Telegraph.
Gardening for Beginners - Basic Horticulture
3-day course with Steven Bradley
6,13,20 March 2008
£360 inclusive of VAT and lunch
An intensive course to give the novice gardener the confidence and skill to create and maintain a healthy garden. Learn how plants work and what they need to survive plus advice on where to begin. Step-by-step techniques cover everything from sowing seeds and arranging plants in a border, to laying a lawn and pruning. Our aim is to give you the confidence to plan and plant your garden and deal with problems such as weeds, pests and diseases. A hands-on workshop limited to 25 participants. Especially suitable for the complete beginner.
Steven Bradley MHort (RHS) MA is a garden writer, broadcaster and Chelsea Flower Show medal winner. A regular broadcaster, he is the author of more than 30 books.
Recreating the Best - Sissinghurst, Waddesden and Great Dixter
1-day course with Sarah Cook, Jim Marshall and Matthew Reese
24 April 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£135 inclusive of VAT and lunch
If you have ever dreamed of imitating some features or the plantings of these great gardens then you should be on this course. Sarah Cook (former Head Gardener of Sissinghurst) will talk on how the strong structure, romantic planting colour themes and old fashioned roses of Sissinghurst are useful ingredients in our own gardens today. Jim Marshall (currently advising at Waddesden) will discuss how we have much to learn from the Rothchild’s family’s Victorian gardeners - and how you do not need an army of staff to make the best use of bedding, trees, shrubs and indoor plants. Matthew Reece of Great Dixter will continue this theme in the afternoon
Sarah Cook was head gardener at Sissinghurst and was responsible for the upkeep of Vita Sackville West’s famous garden. She now lives in Suffolk where she and Jim Marshall are creating a wonderful garden.
Jim Marshall was Garden and Park Advisor to the National Trust, supervising over 60 gardens in Southern England. He was involved in the major restoration of both Sheffield Park and Tatton Park and is currently advising at Waddesdon. He has the national collection of Malmaison carnations.
Matthew Reese is the Assistant Head Gardener at Great Dixter, where he helps maintain this world renowned garden.
Ultimate Kitchen Garden
1-day course with Sarah Wain
1 May 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£125 inclusive of VAT and lunch
Sarah Wain and Jim Buckland run the famous, award winning gardens at West Dean near
Sarah Wain is garden supervisor at West Dean Gardens near Chichester, where the walled kitchen garden attracts 40,000 visitors a year.
Colour in your Garden
1-day course with Jill Billington and Karen Platt
8 May 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£125 inclusive of VAT and lunch
Colour in the garden can be one of the most powerful influences in any garden. In two talks on Early Colour and Summer Colour, Jill Billington will reveal the importance of carefully considered harmony and contrast, using the tone and values of colours for greatest effect. Karen Platt will then talk on how to get the best effect using black, gold, silver and green in the garden.
Jill Billington trained as a sculptor and has practised as a garden designer for over 20 years. As a member of the Chelsea Panel, she judges garden design for the RHS shows and is the author of Really Small Gardens and New Classic Gardens.
Karen Platt is the founder of Black Tulip Publishing and a gardening author and publisher. As well as being a prolific author, Karen also speaks around the world, exhibits, designs gardens and runs a garden consultancy business. Her passion for plants is renowned in writing, photography and watercolours.
Planning and Planting
4-day workshop with Rosemary Alexander and Laura de Beden
12, 13, 14, 15 May 2008 (10.30am - 3.30pm)
£475 inclusive of VAT, lunch and garden visit
Ensure that your garden can be admired throughout the year yet harmonise with your home and lifestyle. This course is an overview of garden design and guides you through the professional process of planning: utilising space; choosing appropriate styles and materials; hard landscaping; designing with plants and how to draw up your own border plan.
Includes an all-day visit to private gardens and students can return to the school for advice post-course.
Rosemary Alexander FRSA AI Hort FSGD, garden designer, author and Principal of The English Gardening School, regularly lectures on all aspects of gardening and garden design.
Laura de Beden MLI is an international lecturer, landscape architect and writer and works in a garden design practice. Laura tutors at the school and at Kingston University.
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