Whether you are a gardening beginner or looking to enhance your skills, our hands-on 4-day course with professional gardener Jenny Samuels, teaches you the essential gardening skills you’ll need so you can get your garden off to the right start in 2025!
The 4-Day Gardening Essentials Course is now SOLD OUT! But there are still places available on some of the individual course days – find out more about all our practical gardening courses here.
Or if you’re interested in joining our next 4-Day Gardening Essentials course, register your interest by emailing us at admin@julietsargeant.com
“I had an amazing day with Jenny. Came away feeling much more confident about how and when I should be maintaining my garden.” Deborah
Garden with a professional and get your garden off to the right start for 2025! Whether you are a gardening beginner or looking to enhance your skills, our hands-on course teaches you the essential skills. Learn by doing and join our ‘4-day Gardening Essentials Course’ to ensure fantastic success in your home gardening.
Held over four months, each session covers key seasonal tasks, blending theory with practical experience in two beautiful gardens. By the end, you’ll have the fundamental knowledge and skills, and the confidence to nurture a thriving, healthy garden.
Learn to prune your plants for health, vigour and great performance
Course day runs 10.30 – 2.30pm, held at Field Place Manor House, Worthing
Everything you need to know about soil and mulching, and dividing perennials
Course day runs 9.45am – 3.15pm, held at East Chiltington, East Sussex
Growing plants from seed, managing weeds, fertilizers and which plants to feed, spring pruning
Course day runs 9.45am – 3.15pm, held at East Chiltington, East Sussex
Staking, managing pest and diseases, tying in climbers, keeping the blooms coming.
Course day runs 9.45am – 3.15pm, held at East Chiltington, East Sussex
We will have the kettle on for a welcoming cuppa and biscuit, which will give time for everyone to arrive and get their gardening gear on. Usually, in the morning, Jenny will start with an introduction to the subjects of the day, before heading out into the garden for hands-on gardening.
Our set-up is ‘rustic’ so bring warm clothes and a sandwich, soup-in-a-flask lunch for yourself, to enjoy during our break in the middle of the day.
As hardy gardeners, we will carry on through light rain and cold. We have places to shelter in each course location, but please be aware that dreadful weather may necessitate Jenny calling a halt to outdoor activities.
All our course days are designed to be enjoyable, informative and fun, with a mixture of input from Jenny, and plenty of chances to put into practice what you are learning.
The February course day takes place at the beautiful Field Place Manor House in Worthing. The March, April and May course days will be in a large private rural Sussex garden in East Chiltington near Plumpton, East Sussex. The garden has established borders, pond, orchard, kitchen garden and wildflower meadows and is a beautiful setting with wonderful views of The Downs, from which to learn to garden.
The Group:Jenny teaches in small groups (max 9) which ensures everyone gets the opportunity to practice, and time to ask questions. The days are a great way to meet like minded people with an interest in gardening and the natural world.
People who want to get to know their gardens better!
If you are a beginner, this course will take you through the steps you need to establish a new garden, enabling you to make the right decisions from the start and avoiding costly and frustrating mistakes
If you are an experienced gardener, you will learn more about professional techniques and practices, including ways of gardening more sustainably.
Complimentary tea and coffee
Pre-course instructions
Illustrated teaching notes to accompany each day of the course
Soil testing of your own samples
Take-home cuttings, seeds, and divisions, when available
Jenny’s approach to teaching gardening is influenced by a passion for greener gardening and a strong belief in working with your soil and climate rather than against it. She loves the challenge of rejuvenating tired borders – making good what is there and introducing fresh planting combinations to breathe new life into a garden.
As the owner of the Lindfield Gardening Company, Jenny has a wide range of experience including horticultural gardening, planting design and teaching gardening to enthusiastic beginners.
Please bring a packed lunch with you.
We advise that you wear steel toe-capped boots, and of course gardening clothes and rain-wear. Gardening gloves are optional.
4 Day Ticket – £360
Alternatively, course days can be booked individually, and you can do this by following these links:
‘Prune Like a Professional‘ – Wednesday 12th February 2025
‘Preparation, preparation, preparation….for Perfect Flower Borders’ – Wednesday 26th March 2025
‘Nurturing your Plants from Seed to Healthy Growth’ – Wednesday 23rd April 2025
‘Ensuring Peak Garden Performance and a Final Flourish’ – Wednesday 21st May 2025
Once you have booked, you will receive an email confirmation of your booking – please check your junk email folder if you do not hear from us.
About 2 weeks before the first day of your course, you will receive another email from us, giving your directions and any joining instructions – please check your junk email folder if you do not hear from us.
admin@julietsargeant.com
Tel: 01273 834 083
Sussex Garden School
Oak Studio
Old Barn Nurseries
Worthing Road, Dial Post
Horsham RH13 8NU
