Our range of leisure and hobby courses keeps growing, with even more fun and exciting courses starting throughout 2025.
Level E
A Year in your Garden
COURSE OVERVIEW
A practical course covering basic principles of Horticulture aimed at developing skills to enhance your own garden or allotment. Topics including- lawn maintenance, hedges, planning, plant selection, planting, pruning, seed sowing, cuttings, glasshouses/polytunnels, sustainable practices, introduction to hard landscaping, ground preparation, ‘no-dig’ and raised beds, introduction to plant science and nomenclature.
10 sessions (9.15 – 12.15) :
- September – lawn care – 27.9.2025
- October – planning and plant selection-cuttings – 25.10.2025
- November – herbaceous perennials and division – 22.11.2025
- December – introduction to hard landscape – 13.12.2025
- January – introduction to plant science and nomenclature – 24.1.2026
- February – pruning – tree planting – 14.2.2026
- March – seed sowing – 28.3.2026
- April – no dig and raised beds. – 25.4.2026
- May – Containers – 23.5.2026
- June – garden machinery – 27.6.2026
FURTHER INFORMATION
The course is suitable for students who either have no experience, or for those who already have previous knowledge and horticulture/gardening skills and wish to advance these further. The course is designed and taught across a seasonal calendar.
Please note students must be aged 19 and over.
After the programme of sessions have finished, you may wish to continue studying with us by re-enrolling for a second year. This would allow you to continue working on your skills and there will be some different sessions added and removed from the programme. We offer a range of courses & qualifications within horticulture, including our RHS (Royal Horticulture Society) courses that may suit your passion and progression. Please see the website for further details on the subjects on offer at our Brinsbury campus.
These are fun recreational courses designed to suit your interest. There are no formal assessment requirements
£420 for all 10 sessions
Tools are supplied. You are required to supply your own protective footwear and different weather clothing appropriate to the time of year.
We have limited onsite parking, however we are very close to public transport links.
Please find more information about travelling to our Brinsbury campus here: Travelling to College | Brinsbury College