Planting Design & Plantsmanship

Discover how to create beautiful, thriving garden spaces in this hands-on, 12-week course.

What you'll learn:

• To identify a wide range of types plants and learn about the environmental conditions that they need to thrive in gardens
• How to design plant combinations and draw up planting plans
• How to best prepare ground, establish a range of plants and maintain them once planted
• About soils and how to improve them for different types of plants
• About the different types of maintenance different plants need including feeding, staking and pruning

During the course you will design a plant collection for your own garden, or an alternative suitable site and specify the materials required to establish your collection. There will be a dedicated practical day to give you hands-on experience in ground preparation, planting and maintenance.

Practical Days:
Practical days will be delivered in Helensburgh and Dunoon. Students must travel to either location to participate:

• Helensburgh: Thursday 2nd April, 10:00–14:30
• Dunoon: Thursday 23rd April, 10:00–14:30

Assessment:

This course contains no exams or tests. It is assessed through a planting design project based on a site of your choice and through observation of practical work you will carry out on your practical day.

Equipment:

• Drawing pencil
• A3 paper
• Ruler
• Set of compasses
• Optional - scale ruler, circle template, colouring pencils or paints, laptop or computer if joining from home

How you will be taught

Classes will be delivered in a live, online classroom. You may attend any mainland Argyll UHI Argyll local centre (island centres are closed from 5PM). Alternatively, you may join from home using a laptop or PC with camera and microphone enabled - you'll need the MS Teams application. Devices such as tablets and smartphones are not suitable for participating in this class.

Ticket Information

Fee waivers may be available for those on benefits or low income. You can check if you are eligible here. Please ensure you complete the Fee Waiver Form if you select this ticket type and email it to the addess below.

If you are a non domiciled Scottish resident your fees may be more than advertised. Please contact us prior to booking.

For any enquiries please contact: ACAdmissions@uhi.ac.uk