Sue Gibson's School of Gardening

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A completed garden design

  • Do you love plants but lack confidence in your gardening ability?

  • Have you long wanted to know how to plan and grow beautiful borders?

  • Are you keen to go green and organic?

  • 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?

  • Does pruning defeat you, do your lawns languish and your cuttings keel over while you wage war with weeds?

  • Would you prefer Private Tuition or a Garden Consultation?

If any of this applies to you, then you have come to the right place . . .

Garden Design

 

Border Planning

 

Practical Courses 

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!

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.

These cover:

  • Pruning

  • Propagation

  • Border Planning

  • Garden Visit

  • Growing and Training Fruit in small spaces

  • General Garden Maintenance

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.  

 

         

 

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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