COURSES:
Our aims:
To run inspiring short courses for both keen amateur gardeners and professional horticulturalists in small groups of up to 10, thereby providing individual tuition as opposed to most garden design courses where groups can be 20-30 people all vying for attention!
Due to small student numbers each course can be designed to meet each groups particular needs.
To provide a fun and informal learning atmosphere where the students will have the benefit of the tutors knowledge and not the pressure of exams, although a certificate will be presented to each student on satisfactory completion of each course.
To run inspiring short courses for both keen amateur gardeners and professional horticulturalists in small groups of up to 10, thereby providing individual tuition as opposed to most garden design courses where groups can be 20-30 people all vying for attention!
Due to small student numbers each course can be designed to meet each groups particular needs.
To provide a fun and informal learning atmosphere where the students will have the benefit of the tutors knowledge and not the pressure of exams, although a certificate will be presented to each student on satisfactory completion of each course.
14 WEEK PART TIME COURSE IN GARDEN DESIGN:
Trouble-shooting design consultation in each student’s garden. This really brings to life various peoples dilemmas with their own gardens.
During the course you will learn how to carry out a simple survey of your garden, analyse the soil, study various garden styles and historical influences, learn about plant collectors and nomenclature. We cover landscape design principles; look at hard landscaping, practice creating planting plans. Each week we wander around the garden looking at elements that we are discussing during the days lessons and Lucy shows current design commissions that she is working on.
Each course starts as and when we have a minimum of 4 students who can all agree on a mutual day of the week that would suit them and the lecturer. (we avoid school holidays) The day is from 10-2.30pm and includes lunch. The course fee is £420 (£30 per day, and roughly a third of the cost of inviting in a Garden Designer to design your garden, from which you’d learn nothing!)
A drawing equipment and book list will be sent to you when the booking fee is received. We will present you with a simple drawing board, graph paper and a file to store your notes in at the beginning of the course. Allow approximately £40 for drawing equipment.
The following is a guide to what will be covered, although details may change depending on size of group and location of students gardens:
If you are considering taking the course, but are unsure, please feel free to contact us to arrange to meet Lucy and look around the garden before booking.
A guide to the course content:
Week 1: Introduction. Types Plan/Paper/Symbols/Scales. Basic surveying - linear / levels. Photography.
Week 2: Site analysis and site appraisal. Soil science and drainage.
Week 3: Visit first two students gardens.
Week 4: Visit third and fourth students gardens.
Week 5: Visit fifth and sixth students gardens.
Week 6: Client brief. Historical influences, garden styles. Plant collectors and plant nomenclature. Practical - plant portfolio
Week 7: Landscape design principles, grids, proportions, scale, division rhythm, balance, focal points, privacy, surprise and perspective.
Week 8: Colour, form, growth habit, texture, principles of plant use: primary, secondary and infill planting. Slides to illustrate good plant associations.
Week 9: Design your own shrubaceous border based on info from previous weeks. Practical: seed sowing.
Week 10: Hard landscaping, rock and water gardens, garden sculptures and suppliers.
Week 11: Continue working on drawing up own gardens with tutors help. Practical: propagation
Week 12: Soft landscape features - trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs. Practical: pruning
Week 13: Plants for varying uses: culinary, medicinal, sensory. Organic permaculture, bio-dynamics. Course review
Week 14: Visit to garden.
Trouble-shooting design consultation in each student’s garden. This really brings to life various peoples dilemmas with their own gardens.
During the course you will learn how to carry out a simple survey of your garden, analyse the soil, study various garden styles and historical influences, learn about plant collectors and nomenclature. We cover landscape design principles; look at hard landscaping, practice creating planting plans. Each week we wander around the garden looking at elements that we are discussing during the days lessons and Lucy shows current design commissions that she is working on.
Each course starts as and when we have a minimum of 4 students who can all agree on a mutual day of the week that would suit them and the lecturer. (we avoid school holidays) The day is from 10-2.30pm and includes lunch. The course fee is £420 (£30 per day, and roughly a third of the cost of inviting in a Garden Designer to design your garden, from which you’d learn nothing!)
A drawing equipment and book list will be sent to you when the booking fee is received. We will present you with a simple drawing board, graph paper and a file to store your notes in at the beginning of the course. Allow approximately £40 for drawing equipment.
The following is a guide to what will be covered, although details may change depending on size of group and location of students gardens:
If you are considering taking the course, but are unsure, please feel free to contact us to arrange to meet Lucy and look around the garden before booking.
A guide to the course content:
Week 1: Introduction. Types Plan/Paper/Symbols/Scales. Basic surveying - linear / levels. Photography.
Week 2: Site analysis and site appraisal. Soil science and drainage.
Week 3: Visit first two students gardens.
Week 4: Visit third and fourth students gardens.
Week 5: Visit fifth and sixth students gardens.
Week 6: Client brief. Historical influences, garden styles. Plant collectors and plant nomenclature. Practical - plant portfolio
Week 7: Landscape design principles, grids, proportions, scale, division rhythm, balance, focal points, privacy, surprise and perspective.
Week 8: Colour, form, growth habit, texture, principles of plant use: primary, secondary and infill planting. Slides to illustrate good plant associations.
Week 9: Design your own shrubaceous border based on info from previous weeks. Practical: seed sowing.
Week 10: Hard landscaping, rock and water gardens, garden sculptures and suppliers.
Week 11: Continue working on drawing up own gardens with tutors help. Practical: propagation
Week 12: Soft landscape features - trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs. Practical: pruning
Week 13: Plants for varying uses: culinary, medicinal, sensory. Organic permaculture, bio-dynamics. Course review
Week 14: Visit to garden.
A selection of students' comments from over the previous 13
courses:
"A well driven course run with enthusiasm. Excellent individual attention - well motivated. Ideal broad syllabus."
C Wakeling, Colchester
"Really enjoyed the visits to the other participants gardens, and found lots of inspiration for my own."
Sally T, Bury St Edmunds
"Really enjoyable, informative and motivating course."
K Lloyd, Bildeston
"Fantastic time - worth every minute, informative and such fun."
Amanda Seymour
"A well driven course run with enthusiasm. Excellent individual attention - well motivated. Ideal broad syllabus."
C Wakeling, Colchester
"Really enjoyed the visits to the other participants gardens, and found lots of inspiration for my own."
Sally T, Bury St Edmunds
"Really enjoyable, informative and motivating course."
K Lloyd, Bildeston
"Fantastic time - worth every minute, informative and such fun."
Amanda Seymour
To discuss the courses please call Lucy on 01284 386250
To book courses please use our BOOKING FORM
To give students practical advice in real life situations.
For example, during the 14 week Garden Design
Courses the students will actually design their own
gardens in contrast to other design courses where the
students are given a fictitious garden to design.
Students will benefit from the tutors advice and their
colleagues ideas, as we troubleshoot each garden
during our visits at the beginning of the course. If the
students garden is beyond a certain distance from the
school, the tutor will make a separate visit, depending
on the location.
To book courses please use our BOOKING FORM
A deposit of £20 is payable with the balance due on first day or 50% day one and 50% in second month.
A deposit of £20 is payable with the balance due on first day or 50% day one and 50% in second month.
To book courses please use our BOOKING FORM
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THE LUCY REDMAN SCHOOL OF GARDEN DESIGN
4 Month Practical Gardening course. Once a month we will look
at practical jobs to carry out around the garden. We will have a
go at some propagation, seed sowing and division. We will look
at what plants to prune and when. Lucy will advise on problem
areas of your garden and show you around the garden at
Rushbrooke, focusing on choice plants - their growing
preferences etc.
Cost including lunch for 4 days £160 (Day to be agreed with applicants - not a Friday!)
Cost including lunch for 4 days £160 (Day to be agreed with applicants - not a Friday!)
3 month Practical Gardening Course. Once a month we will
look at practical jobs to do in the autumn. Pruning,(including
fruit trees) putting your garden to bed, hard wood cuttings, tree
and hedge planting. We will also look at plants around the
garden which are of interest in that month.
Cost including lunch for 3 days £120 (Day to be agreed with applicants - not a Friday)
Cost including lunch for 3 days £120 (Day to be agreed with applicants - not a Friday)
AUTUMN PRACTICAL COURSE starting late September
SPRING PRACTICAL COURSE starting in late March
PLANT INDULGENCE DAYS
We are delighted to be offering days where you can immerse yourself in the wonderful world of plants. Roughly once a month we will head off to visit gardens around East Anglia. We will discuss the plants we see and decide if they would be suitable in your gardens etc. We will also look at the design of the gardens, picking up on borrowed views, layout etc.
I have a people carrier so can fit in a group of 6 plantaholics! Plus anyone who wants to come under their own steam is welcome.
1) Cambridge Botanic Gardens - A superb collection of trees, shrubs and perennials. Friday 16h March
2) Beth Chatto's Garden - the Goddess of Gardening garden and fantastic nursery Wednesday 28th March
3) The Place for Plants - the lovely Rupert and Sarah Eley's plantsman's garden and nursery. Tuesday 17th April
4) Fullers Mill Garden and Langham Walled Garden - a 7 acre treat to behold - Bernard Tickner's amazing collection of shrubs and perennials in a magical setting (West Stowe). Also Langham Walled Garden - home to Phil Mizens fruit/veg/herb garden and Sue Woosters National collection of Alpine Campanulas and lovely plant Nursery Wednesday May 30th
5) The Old Vicarage Garden at East Ruston* - Alan Grey and Graham Robeson's wonderful garden up near Happisburgh in Norfolk. Wednesday June 20th
6) Beth Chatto's Gardens (A second trip to see it in full bloom)
7) Henstead Exotic Garden and Woottens - Andrew Brogan's amazing jungle garden and Mike Loftus's superb perennial nursery. Wednesday 12th September
8) Houghton Hall in Norfolk* - an amazing garden. Clever details by the Bannermans and amazing sculptures which have the wow factor. We will also go to Pensthorpe, Fakenham A wonderful 250 acre nature reserve (Home to BBC Springwatch) and also wonderful gardens one area has been designed by Piet Oudolf showing huge drifts of grasses and perennials .Wednesday 26th September
£25 per day not including admission.
(Lunch not included, we will head for a nearby Pub/Garden Restaurant lunch or bring a packed lunch if preferred)
Leave Rushbrooke at 9.00 and return by 3pm (in time for school pick-up) Except where *marked these are longer days as gardens further away, so return at approximately 7pm
If the dates do not fit your diary and you are a group of 5 or more do contact Lucy to organise another date.
TERMS
1) We reserve the right to cancel a day if not enough people book a tour. (Fee refunded in full for that day)
2) Cancellation more than 28 days ahead will be refunded but not after that.
3) If you cannot attend the tour you are welcome to invite a friend to fill your place providing Lucy has advance notice.
4) For individual days full payment of each day is needed to secure a place.
5) For 8 days please pay a deposit of £20 then full payment on week one or 5o% on the first tour and last 50% on Day 4.
We are delighted to be offering days where you can immerse yourself in the wonderful world of plants. Roughly once a month we will head off to visit gardens around East Anglia. We will discuss the plants we see and decide if they would be suitable in your gardens etc. We will also look at the design of the gardens, picking up on borrowed views, layout etc.
I have a people carrier so can fit in a group of 6 plantaholics! Plus anyone who wants to come under their own steam is welcome.
1) Cambridge Botanic Gardens - A superb collection of trees, shrubs and perennials. Friday 16h March
2) Beth Chatto's Garden - the Goddess of Gardening garden and fantastic nursery Wednesday 28th March
3) The Place for Plants - the lovely Rupert and Sarah Eley's plantsman's garden and nursery. Tuesday 17th April
4) Fullers Mill Garden and Langham Walled Garden - a 7 acre treat to behold - Bernard Tickner's amazing collection of shrubs and perennials in a magical setting (West Stowe). Also Langham Walled Garden - home to Phil Mizens fruit/veg/herb garden and Sue Woosters National collection of Alpine Campanulas and lovely plant Nursery Wednesday May 30th
5) The Old Vicarage Garden at East Ruston* - Alan Grey and Graham Robeson's wonderful garden up near Happisburgh in Norfolk. Wednesday June 20th
6) Beth Chatto's Gardens (A second trip to see it in full bloom)
7) Henstead Exotic Garden and Woottens - Andrew Brogan's amazing jungle garden and Mike Loftus's superb perennial nursery. Wednesday 12th September
8) Houghton Hall in Norfolk* - an amazing garden. Clever details by the Bannermans and amazing sculptures which have the wow factor. We will also go to Pensthorpe, Fakenham A wonderful 250 acre nature reserve (Home to BBC Springwatch) and also wonderful gardens one area has been designed by Piet Oudolf showing huge drifts of grasses and perennials .Wednesday 26th September
£25 per day not including admission.
(Lunch not included, we will head for a nearby Pub/Garden Restaurant lunch or bring a packed lunch if preferred)
Leave Rushbrooke at 9.00 and return by 3pm (in time for school pick-up) Except where *marked these are longer days as gardens further away, so return at approximately 7pm
If the dates do not fit your diary and you are a group of 5 or more do contact Lucy to organise another date.
TERMS
1) We reserve the right to cancel a day if not enough people book a tour. (Fee refunded in full for that day)
2) Cancellation more than 28 days ahead will be refunded but not after that.
3) If you cannot attend the tour you are welcome to invite a friend to fill your place providing Lucy has advance notice.
4) For individual days full payment of each day is needed to secure a place.
5) For 8 days please pay a deposit of £20 then full payment on week one or 5o% on the first tour and last 50% on Day 4.
BESPOKE ONE DAY COURSES
Gather together a gaggle of at least four friends and discuss with Lucy what areas you would like to cover. Choose practical problems like how to propagate or prune plants or design conundrums like which bulbs can you run through a border of ornamental grasses to provide all year round interest. Lucy will base the day around your chosen subjects and will run the course on a day to suit you and your friends. Minimum 4 - maximum 8 people. Course fee £40 per person inc homemade light lunch. Course time 10-3pm
Gather together a gaggle of at least four friends and discuss with Lucy what areas you would like to cover. Choose practical problems like how to propagate or prune plants or design conundrums like which bulbs can you run through a border of ornamental grasses to provide all year round interest. Lucy will base the day around your chosen subjects and will run the course on a day to suit you and your friends. Minimum 4 - maximum 8 people. Course fee £40 per person inc homemade light lunch. Course time 10-3pm
To book courses please use our BOOKING FORM