Workshop: Autumn 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 Danny’s Autumn 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 Danny
Danny has worked across a wide range of schools in East London, changing careers to become a maintenance gardener, and, later, a community gardener with the RHS at Wisley. He is now Education Manager at Walworth Garden, where he will often be found totally absorbed in the minute detail of the flora & fauna it is home to. Danny has a deep and long-standing relationship with plants, and loves nothing more than bringing their fascination closer to other people. He is constantly on the lookout for new and radical approaches to gardening and design, whether it be using alternative materials, unusual cultivars or simply fresh approaches to what a garden can be. Danny loves to cook a weekly vegan masterpiece for our staff lunch in the garden, and outside of work he also volunteers at a range of community growing projects in Hackney.
Price: £85 / Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK’ under ‘Redeem Coupon’.
You will then be charged a £10 deposit in order to claim your place, but this 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, which will be sent to you via email. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed.