Essential Garden Design Diploma
An overview of all aspects of garden design
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The long time leader in all matters horticultural based at the historic Chelsea Physic Garden delivering inspiring, career-building courses. Whether you’re beginning your gardening journey or stepping toward professional design, our programmes combine expert teaching, practical learning and real-world confidence. Our diplomas are recognised worldwide & many leading garden designers and gardening personalities have trained with us.
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one year Good Gardening Diploma Course
Our diplomas are globally recognised.
one year Good Gardening Diploma Course
Acclaimed Diploma Gardening Courses
Good Gardening Diploma
Our internationally renowned signature course, covering training in the more serious aspect of horticultural practice
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Distance Learning Gardening Courses
Certificate in Garden Design
For those who cannot attend in person, this correspondence course guides you step-by-step through the
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Certificate in Caring for Your Garden
Correspondence course guiding you through the seasonal and routine tasks to make and maintain a
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Short Gardening Courses
The Making of a Garden with Troy Scott Smith
The Making of.a Garden with Troy Scott Smith
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EGS Spring Garden Tour Oxfordshire
Spring Garden Tour Oxfordshire.
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The one-year design course at the English Gardening School was a watershed moment for me. The course was stimulating and totally professional with equal attention paid to the inspirational design lectures and the very practical nuts and bolts of design techniques. Standards were high and the course work was challenging but the rewards were great in ...
CAROLINE FOLEY MA has written 13 books including Practical Allotment Gardening and the Allotment Handbook which sold 135,000 worldwide. Topiary Knots and Parterres won the European Garden Book award in 2018. She was editor of Topiarius, journal of the European Boxwood and Topiary Society for 19 years