Short Gardening Courses / Events : The English Gardening School

At the request of past graduates eager to continue their learning enjoyment of all things gardening, we occasionally offer a specialist short course or event covering topical and seasonal aspects of garden design and planting.

Making use of our vast horticultural network, the days vary between lectures by leading personalities and visits of rarely viewed private gardens or nurseries with collections of unusual plants.

Our Short Gardening Courses

Short

Gardening for Beginners 2026

Often given as an unusual and useful present! Our popular course is led by master horticulturist Ben Pope with the opportunity to study at the Chelsea Physic Garden and in two private gardens

Do you have a potentially good garden but do not know where to begin? The first 3 days of this popular 4 day course take place in the Chelsea Physic Garden lecture room with the final day spent in two private gardens near Petersfield. Your tutor is RHS Master ...

View this course

Short

Garden visits and tours

We currently run a series of EGS Garden Tour days for our alumni. Our vast contact list allows us to offer small groups rare guided visits to private gardens in the UK and in Europe. Our most recent day out in September 2025 took us to two private gardens in Monmouthshire including Arne Maynard's own most beautiful and inspiring garden at Allt-y-bela. Our program resumes in April 2026 with a morning visit to a historic garden in Oxfordshire. From there, we travel to an ancient castle, where a delightful lunch awaits. The afternoon is devoted to exploring the castle’s beautiful and productive garden, a remarkable creation developed over the past decade.

View this course