Horatio’s garden appealgarden talks & coursesMarch ~ July 2012

Horatio's Garden Appeal: Southern Spinal Injuries Trust

If you love gardening and would like to meet, listen to and learn from Britain’s leading experts, then don’t miss these six amazing opportunities at Yeo Valley’s Organic Garden Tea Room.

Sarah Raven, Alys Fowler, Toby Buckland, Bunny Guinness and Jekka McVicar have agreed to give talks and courses to help raise funds for SSIT and Horatio’s Garden, the planned rehabilitation garden at the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre in Salisbury.

SSIT have put together a really exciting programme for you to enjoy. A tour of The Organic Garden with a member of the Garden Team will be included as part of the garden talks package, and you’ll have the chance to buy a selection of lovely things from Sarah Raven’s shop and books by the other speakers, as well as seeds and plants from The Organic Garden.

To book & buy tickets, please visit www.ssit.org.uk.

Courses

Sarah Raven leads both these full-day courses, in which you'll learn detailed techniques & tips and enjoy a lovely two-course lunch.

13 March - The Cutting Garden
with Sarah Raven 14 March - Year Round Veg
with Sarah Raven

courses

Year Round Veg
with Sarah Raven

Full day Course 14 March 2012 – £95

This course is based on Sarah’s veg growing philosophy – don’t grow everything, but spend your precious time and use your precious space with the highly productive, long-season crops, which will give you delicious things to eat without taking over your life. Sarah will give her recommendations of what to grow and how best to do it, with successful time-saving techniques and successional sowing plans to give you year round veg.

  • The day lasts from 10.30am – 3.30pm and includes a delicious two course lunch
  • This course is held at the Yeo Valley Lakewood Centre, BS40 7YE
Sarah Raven click here to buy tickets

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Transforming your Garden
with Bunny Guinness

22 June 2012 – £75

If you don’t think you are making the most of your garden, but are not sure which way to go, this is the talk for you. Bunny Guinness, the innovative gold medal winning Landscape Architect, horticulturalist and author, will call upon her extensive experience designing gardens including those with a family-friendly brief to illustrate her inspirational designs and problems solved. Bunny will talk about the use of plants, colour, surface materials, water and buildings to dictate the mood of your garden.

  • The day lasts from 10.30am – 3.30pm and includes a delicious two course lunch
  • This talk is held at The Organic Garden, BS40 7SQ and includes a tour of the garden by a member of the Garden Team
Bunny Guinness click here to buy tickets

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The Cutting Garden
with Sarah Raven

Full day Course 13 March 2012 – £95

If you’ve been thinking about creating a cutting patch, or just growing a few flowers to pick for the house, this course will show you how. Sarah will explain how to prepare, plant, maintain and harvest buckets of flowers from your own garden from March through to November. She will talk about spring planting and sowing of dahlias, bulbs, hardy and half-hardy annuals and sweet peas. You will learn the best sowing and growing techniques so you can achieve easy yet brilliant results.

  • The day lasts from 10.30am – 3.30pm and includes a delicious two course lunch
  • This course is held at the Yeo Valley Lakewood Centre, BS40 7YE
Sarah Raven click here to buy tickets

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Herbs: More Than Just A Garnish
with Jekka McVicar

13 July 2012 – £75

Britain’s leading authority on herbs, Jekka McVicar set up her Organic Herb Farm 25 years ago and now grows more than 650 species of culinary, medicinal and aromatic herbs from around the world. She has won over 60 RHS Gold Medals including 14 at Chelsea Flower Show and has created herb gardens for Jamie Oliver (who calls her “the Queen of herbs”), Sheepdrove Organic Farm and Babington House. So who better to talk about the vast range of herbs that are available and how best to use them? In this illustrated talk you will learn how to use herbs in the kitchen, their medicinal properties and how to grow them in the garden.

  • The day lasts from 10.30am – 3.30pm and includes a delicious two course lunch
  • This talk is held at The Organic Garden, BS40 7SQ and includes a tour of the garden by a member of the Garden Team
Jekka McVicar click here to buy tickets

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Flowers: Planning and Planting for Continuous Colour
with Toby Buckland

4 May 2012 – £75

Learn how to create your own year-round flower garden in this talk with Toby Buckland, the award-winning gardening expert and TV presenter. Toby will cover a range of designs, aspects and plant-types from a luscious twilight garden for evening scent to a nectar-filled border to attract wildlife, as well as addressing different soil types and aftercare. If you love flowers, then here’s your chance to bring a little of the Gardeners’ World magic to your own garden.

  • The day lasts from 10.30am – 3.30pm and includes a delicious two course lunch
  • This talk is held at The Organic Garden, BS40 7SQ and includes a tour of the garden by a member of the Garden Team
Toby Buckland click here to buy tickets

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Edible Gardening
with Alys Fowler

13 April 2012 – £75

If you want to live off your own home-grown produce but don’t want to turn your garden into an allotment, this talk could be one for you. Alys Fowler, the Gardeners’ World Head Gardener will teach you how to grow your own fruit and vegetables among your flowers creating a beautiful and productive garden.

  • The day lasts from 10.30am – 3.30pm and includes a delicious two course lunch
  • This talk is held at The Organic Garden, BS40 7SQ and includes a tour of the garden by a member of the Garden Team
Alys Fowler click here to buy tickets