Gardening Through The Seasons With  Troy Scott-Smith

Dorset Walled Garden

Gardening through The Seasons will be a 5 day course throughout the seasons in 2023/ 2024

DT2 9PH

DATE: Monday, 11th September 2023, Monday 27th November 2023, Monday, 26th February 2024, Monday, 29th April 2024, Monday, 24th June 2024TIME: 10.00-16.00 LOCATION: Upper Sydling House, Up Sydling, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 9PHPRICE: £900. This is the total cost for all five dates .GARDENING THROUGH THE SEASONS WITH TROY SCOTT-SMITH,HEAD GARDENER AT SISSINGHURST‘Gardening through the Seasons&#x27; will be a course run over five days in 2023-2024 - during September, November, February, April and June - led by Troy Scott-Smith, Head Gardener at Sissinghurst. Troy is one of the country&#x27;s leading Head Gardeners and has worked at some of the finest gardens in England, including Sissinghurst, Bodnant, and Iford Manor to name a few.The course, spread over the key gardening months, will inform and demonstrate how to have a very successful season in your garden. It will cover the various skills required in the garden, as well as the tasks needing to be done at the time of the course day, along with practical demonstrations in the garden and the greenhouse. In addition, it will prepare you for what is coming up and allow you to be ahead by planning - such an important part of having a successful season in the garden!With Troy’s expertise leading the course, you will learn new skills, be introduced to new plants, specialist suppliers and be given useful tips, as well as being made aware of different types of equipment designed to increase efficiency, thus saving both time and energy in the garden.You can expect to learn all of the following, and more:Propagating - Successional Sowing - Taking Cuttings - Lifting &amp; Dividing -Planting  Bulbs - Pruning - Planting Analysis - Plant Editing - Feeding - Staking- Ordering from Suppliers - Tools - Creation of a Calendar of GardeningThe day will start with coffee on arrival, followed by a mixture of talks and demonstrations in the garden and the greenhouse, stopping for a much-needed lunch and finishing with tea and cake.Waterproof clothing and sensible shoes should be brought along to this course as we shall be outside in the garden as well as indoors. Each course will run from 10am - 4pm.In addition, there will be a chance to have an informal visit to Sissinghurst, with Troy (date to be set in 2023) and a date will also be set for a visit to Dorset Walled Garden, in June 2023, should anyone like to return when the garden is in full bloom. (These two days are optional extras, but there will be an entrance fee at the National Trust garden of Sissinghurst.)​​Should you wish to book a place to give to a friend, we can send a personal gift voucher out to them.  Please email us if this is the case.Please note that tickets are non refundable so please make sure that you are bale to attend on the specified date. However, if Dorset Walled Garden has to postpone or cancel the event, then all monies will be refunded. We reserve the right to cancel this event if not enough places are booked onto the course .

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