Workshop: Pruning Skills
This practical workshop is designed to clarify the technical skills for those wishing to prune their own plants at home. One of the more technical tasks at the turn of the gardening year, pruning can sometimes intimidate those new to gardening. In this Pruning Skills workshop, you’ll learn why pruning is such an integral part of managing a garden, as well as demystifying the skills and techniques required to succeed. Together we will examine, through examples, the basic approaches to pruning a range of different types of plant for different reasons, working with the plants in our beautiful South London garden. In this workshop, we will cover:
Why prune? The benefits to plants, animal life, and gardeners!
Safe use of tools and equipment, and their basic maintenance
Practical pruning of herbaceous perennials, shrubs and trees
Pruning with purpose: flowers, fruit, health, and structure
Integration into other garden practices: dead-hedging, composting and garden structures
Meet Jack
Jack is a Garden Education Officer at Walworth Garden, teaching students on our Level 2 Work-Based Horticulture Diploma courses.He lives in South London and volunteers on a variety of community growing initiatives as well as experimenting and developing new regenerative growing methods, closing waste stream loops and building healthy soil.
Price: £85/ Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per academic year (Oct 23- Jul 24). To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK23’ under ‘Redeem Coupon’.
You will then be charged a £10 deposit in order to claim your place, this deposit will be refunded to you after you attend the workshop.
Please note that you will be required to fill in a Southwark Council form, including some personal information, in order to confirm your place on a workshop. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed in full.
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