Course Description
If you want to get the best from your garden, BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine’s Essential Pruning for Gardeners course, led by Associate Editor David Hurrion, is a must for anyone wanting to keep their plants in shape and get the best from your garden. It will show you the basic structure of trees, shrubs and fruit bushes, the best time to prune them and how to make the right cuts so you’ll master skills which no good gardener should be without. Lesson one looks at the stems, buds and leaves which make up plants and the fundamentals of where to cut them, as well as the tools you need for the job.
Having got these skills under your belt, you’ll apply them, in lesson two, to the hard pruning that’s essential for summer flowers, colourful winter stems and exotic foliage effects.
By lesson three you’ll be learning how to prune and cut back plants that flower in winter and spring, so they don’t outgrow their space and give the best blooms every year.
And the last lesson shows how you can take all the knowledge and skills you’ve learnt to apply to summer pruning which is essential for controlling vigorous plants, encouraging more flowers and giving you bumper crops of fruit.
Course outline
Making the basic cuts
Hard pruning to promote strong growth
Pruning out the oldest flowered stems
Controlling plant growth and increasing productivity
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RecommendedDevelop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition from David Hurrion
- Start course whenever you like
- 4 weeks tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
- 4 assignments marked by David Hurrion
- Certificate of completion from David Hurrion
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 4 lessons with expert videos & notes
- Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$299The Peer option
Discover the benefits of group learning in an online interactive classroom of no more than 20 people. 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
- 4 lessons with expert videos & notes
- 4 course assignments
- Group chat & direct message classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$99
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Meet David Hurrion
He has spent more than 20 years writing for and editing the nation’s crop of garden magazines and websites, most recently as Deputy and now Associate Editor for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. David has appeared on TV and radio, both as a regular contributor and an expert commentator, as well as on gardenersworld.com in many practical videos.
He has designed, built and planted show gardens and display stands at most of the major garden shows in the UK, including the world famous Chelsea Flower Show, and is now a Floral Judge for the Royal Horticultural Society. David is a popular figure in the horticultural world, well liked and respected for his knowledge by nurserymen, professional gardeners, journalists and the gardening public.
As a trained teacher, David has taught a huge diversity of subjects from botany, soil science and plant identification, to propagation, garden design and crop production, and from City & Guilds through to Degree level. He is also a popular speaker with local gardening groups and presents a range of courses and masterclasses at locations around the UK.
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2 Courses • 1 Expert TutorLearn moreBBC Gardeners’ World is Britain’s biggest gardening brand, led by the flagship BBC2 programme for over 50 years. The magazine is the UK’s biggest-selling gardening title while gardenersworld.com is the country’s leading gardening website. Our award-winning editorial contains regular contributions from the top names in BBC gardening, delivering practical advice and inspiration.
BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine’s Associate Editor, David Hurrion has been a regular contributor and expert commentator on both television and radio, with over 40 years gardening experience. David is a trained teacher and popular speaker with local gardening groups and presents a range of courses and masterclasses at locations around the UK.