Join us for an intensive 4-day planting design course with Nick Bailey, one of the UK’s leading plantsmen and garden designers. Nick is known for his interactive teaching style, dynamic design approach and innovative ideas around the art, craft and science of planting design.

This course is aimed at keen gardeners and garden designers looking to evolve their approach to planting in their gardens or for clients. We’ll cover a range of dynamic approaches to planting design and you’ll be introduced to numerous plants you may never have considered growing. Nick will also share his wealth of experience in creating tailored plantings to suit a wide range of environments and styles coupled with recommendations for great nurseries and inspirational gardens to visit. 

You will learn Nick’s techniques, plants and approaches behind his beautiful planting style. Discover a wide range of unusual and useful annuals, bulbs and exotics to enhance planting schemes. Explore the nature of genus loci and how to plant in tune with the wider landscape.

The final day of this four day course explores case studies from Nick’s and other award winning designers work. Using real garden examples, Nick will show you how the ideas, techniques and plant combinations discussed throughout the course are applied in practice. Nick will talk through his thinking behind each scheme, revealing how planting choices respond to place, scale and atmosphere, and how designs evolve over time. This concluding day offers inspiration, clarity and confidence to help you apply these approaches to your own gardens and planting projects.

This is a 4 day course held at the Chelsea Physic Garden

Students will receive a copy of Nick’s book ‘365 Days of Colour in Your Garden’ and a light lunch will be provided on the first day.