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Courses
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A completed
garden design |
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Do you love plants but lack confidence
in your gardening ability?
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Have you long wanted to know how to
plan and grow beautiful borders?
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Are you keen to go green and organic?
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Would you like to produce professional
looking garden plans, perhaps even some simple 3-D sketches, but at
school your drawings made your teacher weep?
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Does pruning defeat you, do your lawns
languish and your cuttings keel over while you wage war with weeds?
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Would you prefer Private Tuition or a
Garden Consultation?
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If any of this applies to you, then you have come to the right place .
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Garden
Design
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Border Planning
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Practical Courses
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 Courses are held on Wednesdays
(Beginners) or Thursdays (Year 2) each week, at Sue Gibson’s home in
the rural hamlet of Shepherd’s Patch, Gloucestershire.
Her home is close to the world famous
Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust,
and borders the peaceful Gloucester- Sharpness Canal.
Her cottage
garden provides the ideal setting for these courses, at the conclusion
of which all students will have produced a design of and planting plans
for their own gardens.
In the graphics course students can produce
simple but effective 3-D sketches without any need for drawing
ability. It is a stimulating course, yet held in a relaxed
atmosphere without pressure, and there are no exams!
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Sessions
are also held at a local garden centre, where students are allowed to
select a wide variety of plants and, by arranging them on benches, find
ways to gain the best effect based on plant shape, texture and colour.
This is a very popular, confidence-building exercise
that enables students to achieve instant results. They may also
alter their arrangements if they wish to, without ever having to lift a
spade!
Plants may be bought from the garden centre, at a
discount, if required.
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These cover:
and are held either in Sue’s organically grown
garden and workshop, or the students’ gardens locally.
Again, these are either one-day or 3-hour evening
courses where students practise their newly learnt techniques under Sue’s
watchful eye!
Particularly popular are the practical courses in
which students are taught in their own gardens, a different garden being
selected each week.
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Links
World of Felco All Felco secateurs, loppers and pruners are sharp, durable
tools that are easy to maintain and repair
Gloucestershire Orchard Group
(GOG) aims to conserve,
promote and celebrate traditional orchards in Gloucestershire
Deacon's Nursery
sells a very wide variety of
fruit and nut trees, soft fruits and a selection of more unusual fruit
plants
Westonbirt National Arboretum is one
of the most spectacular tree gardens in the world, with over 3,000
different trees and shrub species, many of which are rare or endangered
in their native lands.
Pan-Global Plants nursery specializes
in rare plants capable of growing in the British Isles. Also,
trees, shrubs, grasses, ferns, climbers, bamboo & exotics
The Aerogarden a hydroponic garden
for beginners & experts alike
The Cottage
Garden Society This is a wonderful source of
information for all those who are passionate about
cottage gardening
Mumbleys
Farmhouse - Smallholder Courses designed for
complete beginners who are interested in running their own
smallholdings. Courses on keeping chickens, pigs, sheep, & beehives.
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