Gardening Courses Leicestershire

Leicestershire is fertile ground for gardening courses. If you live in the area and want to study gardening, you don't have to travel or move your schedule. At MyGardenSchool we have some of the world's greatest horticultural lecturers working at our gardening school and we'll bring them right to your home through your computer.
We also like: Barnsdale Gardens There are some interesting ideas in the 38 individually designed and well-stocked gardens. Each garden offers concepts that you can use at home as well as botanically labelled plants, ideal for making notes of the ones you really like before linking through to make direct online purchases at our nursery shop. So re-creating one of the Barnsdale Gardens really is just a click away. Courses at Barnsdale Gardens Winter at Barnsdale 24 January 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Watercolour Painting Day - Poppies and Stone Wall 26 January 10.30am - 4pm £67 Tutor: Sandra Peck Watercolour Painting Day - Snowdrops 23 February 10.30am-4pm £67.00 Tutor: Sandra Peck Basics of Vegetable Growing 1 March 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Growing in Raised Beds 1 March 2pm-4pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Basics of Vegetable Growing and Growing in Raised Beds 1 March Special Price Introduction to Growing Organic Vegetables 6 March10.30am-3.30pm £56.50 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Rose Pruning 7 March 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Jon Brocklebank Rose Pruning 7 March 2pm-4pm £18.00 Tutor: Jon Brocklebank RHS Vegetables all the Year Round 10 March 10am-3.30pm RHS Members - £40.00 Non-members - £50.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton RHS Watercolour Painting Day – Cottage Doorway 13 March 10.30am-4pm RHS Members - £53.60 Non-members - £67.00 Tutor: Sandra Peck Spring at Barnsdale 22 March 10.30am-12.30pm £18 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Plant Propogation 28 March 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Spring Flower Photography 1 April 9.30am-4.30pm £67.00 Tutor: Hemant Jariwala Composting 4 April 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Vegetables all the Year Round 11 April 10am-3.30pm £56.50 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Designing with Plants 14 April 10am-4pm £85.00 Tutor: Adam Frost Pruning Shrubs 17 April 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Jon Brocklebank Watercolour Painting Day – Magnolias 24 April 10.30am-4pm £67.00 Tutor: Sandra Peck RHS Watercolour Painting Day – Clematis 10 May 10.30am-4pm RHS Members - £53.60 Non-members - £67.00 Tutor: Sandra Peck Growing Under Glass 30 May 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Watercolour Painting Day – Close-up Rose 21 June 10.30am-4pm £67.00 Tutor: Sandra Peck Garden Photography 24 June 9.30am-4.30pm £67.00 Tutor: Hemant Jariwala Summer Flower Photography 22 July 9.30am-4.30pm £67.00 Tutor: Hemant Jariwala Watercolour Painting Day – Sweet Peas 24 July 10.30am-4pm £67.00 Tutor: Sandra Peck Watercolour Painting Day – Blue Hydrangeas 16 August 10.30am-4pm £67.00 Gardening in Shade 21 August 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Watercolour Painting Day – Sunlit Garden 11 September 10.30am-4pm £67.00 Composting 26 September 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Preparing Your Garden for Winter 27 September 10am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Rose Pruning 3 October 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Jon Brocklebank Rose Pruning 3 October 2pm-4pm £18.00 Tutor: Jon Brocklebank Watercolour Painting Day – Windmill 9 October 10.30am-4pm £67.00 Tutor: Sandra Peck Growing Soft Fruit 11 October 10.30am–12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Autumn at Barnsdale 14 October 10:30am - 12:30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Pruning Shrubs 16 October 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Jon Brocklebank Simple Garden Design 17 October 7pm-9pm £18.00 Tutor: Adam Frost Vegetables all the Year Round 17 October 10am-3.30pm £56.50 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Garden Photography 21 October 9.30am-4.30pm £67.00 Tutor: Hemant Jariwala RHS Vegetables all the Year Round 25 October 10am-3.30pm RHS Members - £40.00 Non-members - £50.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Plant Propagation 6 November 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Watercolour Painting Day – Snow Geese 8 November 10.30am-4pm £67.00 Two Day Garden Design Course 10-11 November 9.30am-5pm £195.00 Pruning Fruit Trees 13 November 10.30am-12.30pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Pruning Fruit Trees 13 November 2pm-4pm £18.00 Tutor: Nick Hamilton Christmas Wreath Making Workshop 25 November 10.30am-12.30pm £25.00 Tutor: Sue Jarvis Watercolour Painting - Simple Cards 6 December 10.30am-4pm £67.00 Tutor: Sandra Peck

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