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Roses

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Level: Peer






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Level: Peer

Course overview

Michael Marriott, one of the world's leading rose experts (and previously Head Rosarian at David Austin Roses for 35 years) teaches you how to plan, nurture, and grow a rose garden.

Choose Expert option to receive personal feedback from Michael in class.

Michael will teach you how to choose the right rose for your garden location, and advise on pruning roses, choosing roses for fragrance and colour combinations.

The rose is exceptional in the plant world and it can be grown in most climates. Whether you live in cold, hot or moderate climates – Michael will help you find the perfect rose to suit your garden.

Roses vary in size from tiny little plants a few centimetres tall to huge rambling roses growing into trees. Their flowers can be just a few millimetres across or 20cm or more and the number of petals range from four to 200. Rose fragrances are just as varied. So there's a variety of rose to suit every garden and green space.

Michael will took you through all types of roses from rose bushes to climbing roses and shrub roses, the difference in rose stems, and extending your rose flowering season. Plus he'll look at techniques to improve the disease resistance of your roses and how to feed your plants and encourage repeat flowering.

You'll learn:

  • rose species and the breeding history of roses
  • where to plant roses - from mixed with other plants in garden borders to a dedicated rose garden
  • using roses to create garden features - including rose arches
  • pruning roses
  • breeding new rose varieties

The course includes:

  • 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Michael Marriott
  • lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class
  • flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
  • downloadable lesson notes
  • practical rose gardening projects (with feedback available from Michael)
  • access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
  • small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas

Time to complete the growing roses course:

Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 10 hours 10 minutes to complete including:

  • Video lessons: 2 hours 10 minutes in total
  • Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
  • Your rose assignments: at least 1 hour per lesson
  • Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
  • Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson

You'll need:

You don't need any special equipment, or even your own garden or roses, but you will be planning a rose garden, thinking about where to plant roses and how roses can work in a garden with other plants. The course is suitable for gardeners at all levels - from new gardeners to professionals who want to learn from an expert in roses.

Ready to get started?

Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Michael on your country garden designs.

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Lesson summary

The wonderful world of roses
Michael delves into the world of roses, giving us a tour of his garden while discussing the different groups, their cultural history and main characteristics. He will discuss how each species differs, and how you can find suitable varieties that will thrive in your environment for as long as possible. He will also discuss the disease resistance of each, groups that he avoids, which perennials to plant alongside, which you should prune and which you should spray.
How to use roses in the garden
Michael will demonstrate the versatility of roses, drawing attention to the many ways that roses can be planted in the garden. You will learn how you can grow roses in different spaces, including informal borders, mixed borders, formal rose gardens, wild areas, pots, walls, arches, trees and hedges
Looking after roses and rose plants
You will learn how to care for your roses, from which variety to choose right through to how you should prune them. This includes soil preparation, planting technique, aftercare, deadheading and disease prevention.
Rose fragrances, rose breeding and commercial rose production
Lastly, you will be given an insight into the inner workings of David Austin Roses, learning which commercial production methods have proved successful. You will also learn how to breed new varieties of rose, and discover the vast number of fragrant roses available to you.

Choose how you want to learn

Expert-level

Develop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition:

  • Start the course whenever you like
  • Tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
  • Certificate of completion and CPD learning hours
  • Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
  • Lessons with expert videos & notes
  • Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom

Peer-level

Get the most from shared knowledge and community study:

  • Start course whenever you like
  • Practise what you learn with your peers
  • Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
  • Lessons with videos & notes
  • Course assignments
  • Group chat & direct message classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom

meet the expert

Michael Marriott

A leading authority on roses, former David Austin head Rosarian, with 35 years' experience designing rose gardens globally.

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Why choose Learning with Experts?

Start whenever it suits you, and immerse yourself in motivational lesson tutorials with expert guidance.
Enhance your learning and personal growth with lesson assignments. Each course includes an optional assignment at the end of every lesson.
Drop a friendly message or respond to your assignment feedback. Our world-class experts are just a click away, ready to help you!
Stay informed about your own progress and those of your peers, and take joy in celebrating achievements along the way.
Chat and share ideas with passionate communities of learners from around the world.

Frequently asked questions

What’s the difference between PEER and EXPERT options?

At Peer and Expert level, you get access to the same core content and features:

  • Video lesson tutorials led by your expert tutor
  • Downloadable lesson notes
  • Option to practise what you learn with lesson assignments
  • Group learning within an online interactive classroom of up to 20 classmates
  • Lifetime access to videos, notes and classroom

If you choose Expert level, you get all of the above plus the following:

  • Personalised assignment feedback and coaching from your expert tutor
  • Opportunity to interact with your expert tutor through a private messaging system
  • Certificate of completion.
What is an online classroom?

Our online classroom has been developed to allow you to learn from our experts in a sociable environment alongside up to 20 other students. After each video tutorial led by your expert, you will be encouraged to practice what you have learned with optional assignments - these can be seen by the other students in your class, who are free to share their own thoughts and questions with you.

You will be encouraged to take part in an ongoing class discussion where you can discuss ideas, post images or work, and comment on each other’s assignments. It’s a great way to learn from other like-minded people who share your passion from all over the world.

This means not only do you benefit from people who are outstanding in their field, but also from a close-knit group of like-minded people whom you can learn alongside. Group learning has shown to greatly improve not just the experience of studying, but also how well you retain the knowledge, and we have built our classroom experience around this fact.

When can I start my course and how long will it take?

You can start your course any time within 12 months after receipt of your purchase confirmation email. Once you start, you’ll have lifetime access — meaning you can revisit the lesson videos and notes whenever you want.

Our courses are designed so that you can study at your own pace, some prefer to binge learn while others like to spread their studying over a longer period of time - it’s completely up to you. To give you a rough time frame, each lesson video is approximately 30-40 minutes long, and we recommend that you spend around an hour on each assignment.

How often can I speak with the Expert?

If you opt for the Expert version of your course, the time you have to interact with your tutor is limited to course length. You will have one week per lesson to chat to your tutor and to have your assignments marked, and during this period you can ask them as many questions as you would like.

To find out the length of each course, head to the product page and look at the Course outline to see how many lessons it contains. e.g. a four lesson course assumes that you will have completed the assignments within four weeks.

Your tutor interaction period will start as soon as you enter the classroom. If you find that you are struggling to complete the assignments in the allocated time or you wish to put this function on hold, just get in contact with one of the team via the support button and we will help you out.

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