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Design & Plant Your Own Stunning Summer Border with Juliet Sargeant

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Wednesday 13th July 2022 | 9:30am - 2:30pm

Design & Plant Your Own Stunning Summer Border with Juliet Sargeant

Design & Plant Your Own Stunning Summer Border
Get that ‘Show Garden Look’ with advice from a Chelsea Gold Medal-winning designer.
Learn how to plan the perfect combination of plants for that ‘WOW’ factor in your sunny summer border.
Introduction
With colour slides and a step-by-step approach, Juliet will guide you through choosing the correct plants for you site and how to combine them for stunning effects.
Tutor Description
Juliet Sargeant is a multi-award winning designer, known for her stunning planting designs and practcial solutions to garden problems.
Subjects Covered
Analysing your planting site (please note in this course we will be concentrating on sunny planting areas)
Choosing the correct plants for your site
Colour-scheming for great effect
How to combine plants for summer impact
Who is the course for?
Beginners and garden enthusiasts are welcome.
This course for anyone who loves colour and high summer visual imapct.
By the end of the day you will:
Have a list of plants that you can use in your garden
Know how to combine plants for great effect
Understand how to use colour for great effect
Know the steps to designing a planting scheme
Have started your own plantign scheme for your own summer border
The Group
We will be an informal group. Juliet teaches in an accessible, workshop style with illustrated ‘info-bites’ and relevant exercises for you to think about your own garden.
As well as being an award-winning garden designer, Juliet has been teaching gardening to professionals and enthusiasts for over 20 years.
Venue
Sussex Prairie Gardens is The largest ‘Prairie Style’ garden in the UKand a beautiful place to be inspired by planting and colour.
Morlands Farm Wheatsheaf Road, Henfield BN5 9AT
The Day Includes:
Free garden entry
Illustrated handouts
Step-by-step guidance
Tickets:
RHS membership Ticket £76
Early Bird Ticket £85 (The first 5 non-RHS tickets sold)
Standard Ticket £95
Date, Time & Venue:
Weds 13th July 2022
9.30am – 2.30pm
Sussex Prairie Gardens

learn more and book online at www.sussexgardenschool.com

 


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Sussex Prairies Wild

Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road (B2116),
near Henfield
, West Sussex, BN5 9AT

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