Jimi Blake
Planting Design from Hunting Brook Gardens (Spring & Early Summer)
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- £150.00
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- £150.00
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Learn how to create adventurous planting design with expert gardener and plant collector Jimi Blake.
Taught from Jimi’s famous Hunting Brook Gardens in Ireland, this planting design course will show you how to combine plants with a focus on spring to summer planting.
You’ll learn how to bridge the colour gap from the green of spring shoots to early summer and how to choose plants that combine colours, textures and styles to bring interest to your planting scheme.
Jimi will also show you how to create an exotic looking garden – even in colder climates.
You’ll learn how to create a sand garden and how to choose plants that thrive in sand.
As you learn you'll be creating your own planting plans and lists of plants to use in your garden.
You'll learn:
- how to use colour in the garden to bridge the gap from spring to summer
- which late spring plants to use from daffodils to Geums
- combining plants in your garden for maximum impact
- cutting back before summer
- how to create a sand garden
- how to plant in a sand garden
- what plants to use in a sand garden
- how to combine plants to create an exotic looking garden
- which plants to pollard
- plant combinations to challenge your gardening
The course includes:
- 4 on-demand video lessons - presented by Jimi Blake
- lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class
- flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
- downloadable lesson notes
- practical planting design projects (with tutor feedback available)
- 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 planting design 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 planting design projects: 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:
- a notebook for the garden
- photos of plants
Ready to get started?
Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Jimi on your planting design project and questions.
If you know someone who'd love this course then give it as a gift - just tick "This is a gift" at the checkout.
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Lessons
What You’ll Learn
Explore the lessons and topics covered across the course.
You’ll learn about the plants and planting design that Jimi uses to transition the changes from spring to early summer at Hunting Brook Gardens. You’ll see how he uses ordinary plants to do extraordinary things.
You’ll learn how to design a garden and choose plants that work in your climate to create the look of an exotic garden.
Jimi will show you the sand garden at Hunting Brook Gardens. You’ll learn how to make a sand garden, which plants to choose and how to plant in sand.
In this lesson we’ll look at different combinations of plant colours and textures.
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Answers to the most common questions about learning with us.
Our online classroom is designed to help you learn from experts in a collaborative, social environment alongside a small group of learners.
Each lesson combines expert-led videos with optional assignments, giving you the opportunity to apply what you’ve learned and share your work with others. You can take part in ongoing discussions, ask questions, exchange feedback, and learn from a community of like-minded people from around the world.
By learning together in a small, supportive group, you benefit not only from expert guidance but also from shared ideas, perspectives, and experiences—helping you stay engaged and retain what you learn.
You can start your course at any time within 12 months of purchase. Once you begin, you’ll have lifetime access, so you can revisit lesson videos and notes whenever you like.
Courses are designed to fit around your schedule, allowing you to learn at your own pace. Each lesson video is typically 30–40 minutes, and we recommend around an hour for each assignment.
Both Peer and Expert options give you full access to the course content, including lesson videos, downloadable notes, assignments, and a collaborative online classroom with up to 20 learners. You’ll also have lifetime access to revisit the material at any time.
The Expert option includes everything in Peer, plus personalised assignment feedback, direct messaging with your expert tutor, and a certificate of completion.
With the Expert option, you can interact directly with your tutor throughout the course. You’ll typically have one week per lesson to ask questions and receive feedback on your assignments, with as much interaction as you need during that time.
Your tutor access begins when you enter the classroom and follows the course schedule (for example, a four-lesson course usually runs over four weeks). If you need more time or support, our team is here to help.
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