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?
Does pruning defeat you, do your lawns languish and your cuttings keel over while you wage war with weeds?
Would you like Private Tuition or a Garden Consultation?
If any of these points apply to you, then you have come to the right place . . .
Courses are held on Wednesday evenings, Thursdays all day (Year 3) or Friday afternoons 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 studio for these courses, at the conclusion of which students will have produced a design of and planting plans for their own gardens.
In the graphics course, students produce simple but effective 3-D sketches without the need for drawing ability. These are stimulating courses, held in a relaxed atmosphere without pressure, and there are no exams.
In addition to classroom work, sessions are also held at a local garden centre. Here students select a variety of plants and arrange them on benches to their best effect based on plant shape, texture and colour.
This is a very popular, confidence-building exercise, as it allows students to alter their plant arrangements, without ever lifting a spade, to achieve instant results.
Plants may then be bought from the garden centre, at a discount, if required.
These cover:
Pruning
Making plant supports
Border Planning
Garden Visit & Plant Swap
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’ own gardens locally.
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. The next course is planned for Spring 2012 and is open to students living up to 20 miles from Slimbridge.
Sue Gibson
+44 01453 890820 info@iteachgardening.co.uk