Workshop: Planning and Maintaining a City Garden
This new workshop is designed as an opportunity to enhance your gardening knowledge and grow your confidence in successfully planning and maintaining a small city garden. As unique spaces with specific conditions, small city gardens present a range of opportunities that require customised attention regarding plant choices and maintenance routines. This session will give you a solid foundation how to appraise, plan and maintain them.
This workshop will be theoretical, classroom based session covering basic principles and techniques, along with a garden walk session to evaluate plants and sample plant combination in the garden, with a discussion on the scenarios you might encounter. We will also be sharing our tips on how to create and maintain a small biodiverse and resilient garden with minimal use of resources but maximum positive output for wildlife and wellbeing and enjoyment, allowing you to welcome life and colour into your space through a design and installation that works for you.
This session is recommend to all that would like to make the most of their city garden (their own or a shared or community space), regardless of experience level. We will look at common issues in city gardens using some of the participants’ own gardens as case studies, and you are encouraged to bring your questions. There will be a small practical garden design/plant choice exercise to apply whats has been discussed and to experiment with individual ideas.
You will leave with an understanding of some of the problems and solutions for their own space, as well as a feeling for its potential.
Please bring along photos of your garden (good or bad!) for the discussion session.
Meet Sophie (she/her)
Sophie, Deputy Head Gardener at the Inner Temple Garden, takes a particular interest in biodiverse planting schemes for city greening focusing on sensible, resourceful, and sustainable horticultural practices. She graduated from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, followed by the Master of Horticulture with Distinction with the RHS. She also cultivates London’s floating gardens in Bermondsey, a barge community of roof top gardens representing unique biodiverse resilient planting within a mild riverside microclimate. Sophie is passionate about the adaptation of horticultural practices as well as the creation of planting schemes for the current and future climate.
As a London gardener, Sophie is passionate about teaching and sharing horticultural knowledge, gardening skills and growing experiences with the community and to provide learning guidance and encouragement to anyone at any skill level to explore the pleasure and satisfaction in caring and developing their own or shared green spaces.
@innertemplegarden
@london.floating.gardens
Price: £85/ Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per academic year (Sept 24- Jul 25). To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK25’ 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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