Workshop: Pruning with Purpose: Principles and Techniques
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 Practical Horticulture Skills 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: £92
Note for Southwark residents: Our weekend workshops are now available by paid booking only. We are no longer able to offer free places due to the discontinuation of external funding. We hope to offer free places again at some point in the future.