Join award winning garden designer Juliet Sargeant at the wonderful Sussex Prairie Garden for two talks giving you a host of tips and information on how to develop a wildlife pond, and how to garden and plant to encourage and support wildlife in your garden.
Boost your garden knowledge with professional tips from our horticulture & design experts. Our Garden Knowledge Boost series of talks are packed with insights gained from years of creating and planting gardens of all kinds. Whatever your garden problem, we have the solutions! Join us for just a morning ‘info-burst’ or relax into a whole day of learning.
Join multi award winning garden designer and regular panellist on Radio 4’s Gardeners Question Time, Juliet Sargeant for two talks How to Make a Wildlife Pond – Large or Small (10.30-12Noon) and ‘Re-Wild’ Your Garden – How to Plant and Garden for Wildlife (1-2.30pm).
Morning Talk – How to Make a Wildlife Pond, Large or SmallA wildlife pond is the best thing that you can provide in your garden to support a wide variety of insects and animals, no matter the size. Join Juliet to discover how to create a wildlife haven in a few simple steps, and leave the session feeling confident in creating your own Oasis for wildlife.
– Finding the best location for your pond
– A brief introduction to the considerations and methods of building your own small pond
– A brief guide to planting your wildlife pond
– Juliet’s top 5 pond plants to support a wildlife friendly pond
– an understanding of where to site your small wildlife pond.
– an understanding on how to construct a small pond.
– an understanding of the different pond plants and their function
– a list of our favourite wildlife friendly plants for your pond
Afternoon Talk – ‘Re-Wild’ Your Garden, How to Plant and Garden for WildlifeDiscover the principles of re- wilding and how you can give nature a hand by creating the right conditions in your own garden to support nature and wildlife. Juliet will be sharing her top tips on how to plant and garden for wildlife in your outdoor space.
– What is re-wilding?
– The benefits of rewilding on wildlife, nature, humans and our environment.
– What makes a wildlife friendly garden?
– How to re-wild in your own gardens, including our Top 5 plants
– Juliet’s top tips for re-wilding a small space
– an understanding of what re-wilding actually is and the key principles of re-wilding
– an understanding on the benefits of re-wilding on wildlife, nature, humans and the environment
– understand how you can create a wildlife friendly garden, and our top tips for achieving this.
– a list of Juliet’s top wildlife friendly plants
Beginners and garden enthusiasts are welcome, and anyone with a particular interest in supporting wildlife in their garden
Juliet Sargeant is a multi-award-winning designer, with over 20 years of experience in designing gardens and also teaching about them. She has a relaxed teaching style, with plenty of illustrations, and discussion.
Sussex Prairie Gardens is the largest Prairie style garden in the UK; a ‘mecca’ for anyone who loves the soft, informal style of naturalistic planting and the billowing textures of ornamental grasses. The gardens include a wildlife pond inhabited, and visited regularly, by a whole variety of species.
RHS Member Ticket – £44
Early Bird 2-talk Ticket – £44 (first 3 tickets sold)
Standard 2-talk Ticket – £55
If you’d prefer to join us for one of these talks rather than both, please follow these links for bookings for individual talks
How to Make a Wildlife Pond – Large or Small
‘Re-Wild’ Your Garden, How to Plant and Garden for Wildlife
Friday 13th September 2024
10.30am – 2.30pm
Sussex Prairie Garden, Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road, Henfield BN5 9AT
A packed lunch which you can enjoy in the beautiful surroundings of the Prairie Garden between 12Noon and 1pm.
The garden’s cafe will be open during the afternoon where you can buy drinks and cake.
Once you have booked, you will receive an email confirmation of your booking – please check your junk mail if you have not heard from us.
About 2 weeks before your course, you will receive another email, giving directions and joining instructions – again, please check your junk mail if you have not heard from us.
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Tel: 01273 834 083
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