Workshops for Gardeners

Disease Identification for Gardeners

£100 per person for a half-day workshop

In this small group workshop, you will learn how to use basic diagnostics techniques to assist you with the identification of plant diseases. At the end of this workshop, you will:

• Know how to spot healthy and unhealthy plants in your garden
• Become familiar with plant pathogens that cause plant stress
• Learn key skills to ensure the health of your garden plants
• How to create a balanced ecosystem in your garden which is beneficial for your plants

Plant Propagation for Gardeners 

£40 per person for a two-hour workshop

Ever wanted to learn how to make more plants for free? This small group workshop can teach you the techniques you need to propagate different plants for free. Bespoke classes based on a range of propagation techniques. Groups have a choice of techniques depending upon the seasonal availability of plant materials:

• Hardwood cuttings
• Softwood cuttings
• Greenwood cuttings
• Semi-ripe cuttings
• Root, bulb, and rhizome cuttings
• Leaf cuttings
• Layering
• Air layering

Friend or Foe? Insect identification for Gardeners using a Key

£40 per person for a two-hour workshop

This small group workshop will go on the hunt for insects in our gardens to identify whether they are friends or foes to our plants. We will use a variety of trapping methods from sweep nets to live insect traps to help us to study the diversity of insect life in our gardens. We will use identification guides and Keys to help us discover what lives in our garden ecosystems.