After being a course leader and lecturer in Horticulture at Nottingham Trent University for nearly 20 years I am now working on a new venture in Limousin, France. In our plant nursery and garden school we aim to carry on sharing our passion for horticulture and natural crafts.
Specialist subjects include plant science, propagation, plant identification, specialist traditional and modern pruning and maintenance techniques. We also teach greenwood crafts, weaving, stained glass art and other crafts using natural materials.
Make a willow Stag’s Head Tuesday 30th April
Come along and learn the art of making animal sculptures out of willow. Make a majestic Stag Head to mount indoors or outside.
You will learn the basics of using willow as a medium for sculpture and create an impressive stag head sculpture over the course of the day.
Tuesday 30th April 10.00-4.30; a light lunch, refreshments and all materials are included: 65€
Willow is a flexible material that is easy to use for freestyle 
sculpture and you will be able to add your own personal touches to your stags head. You do need a little strength and dexterity to work with willow on a larger sculpture such as the stags head. We will support anyone who needs a little help to finish theirs off on the day.
BOOKING IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS DATE, we have an extra date on 18th June
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This winter we have added another large shade tunnel so that we can expand our range of plants and keep them cool and healthy in the hot weather.
overwintering insects that will be getting low on energy by now.
Another shrub with a powerful fragrance is the winter honeysuckle Lonicera x fragrantissima one of the shrubby honeysuckles that bears pairs of fragrant flowers all along its arching stems from January through till April will be covered in bees on a sunny winters day. Spot the pollen sacks on the bee in the photograph!
separate male and female floral structures. The male flowers are usually catkins, releasing pollen when they mature. At the moment the hazel trees are in full flower, their make catkins having elongated over the last week or so waving away in the hedgerows distributing their pollen in the wind. Harder to spot are the female flowers that look like miniature sea anemones emerging from small plump buds along the stems. Hazel trees need a period of mildly windy weather without too much rain for the pollen to spread effectively and be caught up on the sticky 
female floral parts. Unfortunately high winds and heavy rain at this time of the year can lead to a bad crop of nuts.
Learn to use willow as a medium for sculpture and create a life size heron sculpture for your garden or by your pond. All materials, light lunch and refreshments are included.
This half-day course in plant propagation will look at the basics of propagating from seed and from softwood cuttings. You will learn a little botany that will help you to be more successful in rooting cuttings and understanding the different types of seeds, seed sowing tips and overcoming different types of dormancy in seeds.
This half day introductory course is running on Thursday 2nd May 2-4pm 20€ per person
Learn the basics of sculpture using chicken wire to create a lifelike chicken sculpture for your garden. A good basic beginners course which can lead onto building on these skills to create more complex sculptures later in the year.
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