Planting Design from Hunting Brook Gardens (Late Summer & Autumn)

Jimi Blake, plant collector and gardener from Hunting Brook Gardens, teaches you how to take your garden from late summer into autumn with salvias, dahlias, using colour, how to use leaves and foliage for garden drama and how to be creative in planning your garden. He'll show you his recommended dahlias and salvias, and how to think creatively about combining plants, colours and textures together. You'll go on a tour of Hunting Brook Gardens as Jimi explains how he extends summer into late autumn through plant selection, planting schemes, planting design and plant maintenance. You'll learn how to use leaves and foliage to create interest in the garden, how to combine leaves with flowers and how to make the most of even the smallest garden spaces (including container gardening). Finally you'll join Jimi as he lets you into his garden planning secrets - from reviewing your garden throughout the year to propagation planning and overwintering hardy and tender plants. By the end of the course you'll have learnt: what to look from when choosing dahlias and salvias how to combine flowers with leaves how to analysis your planting designs and improve them how to keep borders looking fresh into autumn how to plan your garden and planting designs for next year Time to complete Jimi's planting design course: Every student is different but in general we think the course will take around 14 hours to complete including: Video lessons: 2 hours in total Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson Assignment: at least 2 hours per lesson Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per assignment You'll need: You don't need any special equipment, but you will be creating your own plant list and garden designs, and planning your garden for next year. The course is suitable for all levels - beginners to garden designers or horticulture professionals who want to learn from a passionate plant collector and expert garden designer. The course includes: 4 on-demand video lesson - presented by Jimi Blake lifetime access to the video, notes and interactive class flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like downloadable lesson notes practical (optional) planting design projects access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop small interactive online classroom chat online to students from around the world Ready to get started? Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Jimi on your garden design and questions. Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.