Salvias for gardeners, John Hoyland
26th July 2012
10am-1pm
£20 (£10 for Friends), includes coffee

Salvias are a large genus that encompasses annuals, biennials, perennials and shrubs. In the garden they are prized for being both floriferous and long-flowering. Their range covers demure, low growing plants to exuberant titans. The talk will look at the best garden forms, identifying those that require particular growing conditions and those that need winter protection. The session will cover plant associations, cultivation and propagation. Everything you need to grow more salvias.

John Hoyland is a plantsman who owns Pioneer Plants in Hertfordshire. He is an award-winning garden writer who regularly contributes to gardening publications in Britain and abroad. He is also garden adviser to Glyndebourne. He gardens in Hertfordshire and in south-west France.

To book a place for this workshop ring 01797 254048

Grasses, their place in our gardens, Neil Lucas
3rd September 2012
Time: 10am-3pm
Cost: £60.00- includes refreshments, lunch and free entry to the garden

Neil Lucas, M.I.Hort, is the UK's leading ornamental grass specialist, owner of Dorset-based Knoll Gardens, holder of ten consecutive Gold Medals at Chelsea, and Chairman of the Knoll Gardens Foundation.

Neil has made countless media appearances, the most memorable perhaps when he was captured reducing the roots of a miscanthus with a large saw during BBC TV's Chelsea coverage! When not on the show circuit, either as Exhibitor or RHS Judge, lecturing, writing, or off on plant finding expeditions overseas, Neil spends his time tending what he describes as his "four acre exhibit', the show gardens and nursery of Knoll Gardens.

This day course will look at ornamental grasses, their use in our designed spaces, and how Neil’s gardening philosophy and development of his naturalistic gardening style has evolved as a result of his lifelong fascination with plants both in gardens and the wider landscape.
The day will include a tour of the garden at Dixter looking at how grasses are used in the mixed border as well as a practical session which will cover propagation and maintenance.

His new book ‘Designing with Grasses’ will be available for sale on the day.

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