Winter is the ideal time for pruning deciduous shrubs but are you unsure where to start? Join us for a practical one day course designed to build up your skills and knowledge, enabling you to go home and prune your shrubs with confidence before the spring kicks in!
Pruning is a subject that many gardeners worry about getting right; there are so many different types of shrubs, so many ways to prune, and online advice can be confusing and contradictory.
Our one-day winter-pruning course, led by professional gardener Jenny Samuels, will take you through the basic principles of pruning and how to apply them to any deciduous shrub. By the end of the day, you will have greatly increased your skills, knowledge and confidence in pruning.
After a hot drink and welcome, you will start the day looking at the reasons that gardeners worry about pruning and why books and on-line guides can feel confusing and nuanced. You will then explore the principles of pruning; why we prune, how the plant responds to pruning and why winter is a good time to prune many deciduous shrubs. We will look at three different types of winter pruning; maintenance, restoration and hard pruning and students will have a go at all three types.
• The principles of pruning – why we prune and how the plant responds.
• Which plants to prune in winter
• Correct pruning cuts
• Restoration pruning of overgrown shrubs.
• Hard Pruning
• Maintenance pruning
• Equipment to use.
• Understand the difference between hard pruning, maintenance pruning and restoration pruning and how to apply it to the correct shrubs
• Feel confident to perform maintenance pruning on ANY deciduous shrub
• Correctly reduce the size of an overgrown shrub
• Hard prune a shrub without fear of killing it!
• Know how to make correct pruning cuts
• Be able to predict how a plant will respond to the way you have pruned it
• Understand when to use secateurs, loppers, or a pruning saw
Beginners with no experience, or gardeners with some gardening knowledge who’d like to know more.
You should be able to spend a morning outside on your feet, though you are welcome to bring a folding chair with you to sit on if this is helpful.
Jenny teaches in small groups (maximum of 9)
Jenny Samuels, owner of the Lindfield Gardening Company, has a wide range of experience including horticultural gardening, planting design and teaching gardening to enthusiastic beginners. 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.
Early Bird Ticket £85 (First 3 tickets sold)
Standard Ticket £95
Wednesday 7th February 2024
10.30am – 3.30pm
Field Place Manor House & Barns, The Boulevard, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 1NP
Please bring a packed lunch with you.
Once you have booked, you will receive an email confirmation – please check your junk mail if you have not heard from us.
About 2 weeks before your course date you will receive another email giving directions and any joining instructions – please check your junk folder if you haven’t received anything.
Our Winter Pruning for Beginners course is just one of a range of hands on gardening skills days, and you can find out about all our other practical gardening courses here. Or if you are just wanting to boost your gardening knowledge, why not join us for one of our Garden Knowledge Boost talks – we have a whole selection of informative talks filled with tips and advice taking place in 2024, each one is 90 minutes and led by one of our expert gardening team.
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