Workshop: Container Gardening
This workshop is designed to share the methods to growing within the confines of containers, and transforming them into scaled-down gardens. We will decipher some of the skills, knowledge, and terminology to help you compose successful, long-lasting container gardens, from window boxes to small outdoor balconies and gardens.
This workshop will also be valuable to those who do have larger gardens to work with - one of the joys of pots and containers is that they can be moved! In bigger spaces, they can be brought into the fore to be celebrated, and then moved into the background while dormant, and we’ll also be covering how to manage this.
The session will explore:
● Types of containers, choosing plants that will work well in them, and grouping plants together
● High rise balconies and dealing with the exposure they might create for plants; artificial landscapes and how to deal with them for best effect
● Growing media - avoiding peat, what is available, what you can mix yourself, and what suits your plant choices
● Drainage, feeding, and other maintenance tasks to ensure ongoing success
Meet Alice (she/her)
Alice grows vegetables, fruit and herbs in central London rooftop gardens for fine dining chefs. She also manages a range of spaces for wildlife, from a pollinator garden on an industrial estate to private back gardens and cafe courtyards. She previously taught the Level 2 Horticulture qualification at Walworth Garden.
Price: £85
Note for Southwark residents: Looking to book a free place? Unfortunately, our limited quota of free places for the 2024-25 academic year have now been claimed. We will be releasing a refreshed number of free places, along with a new calendar of workshops, in Autumn 2025 so please check back then. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on social media, at the bottom of this page, to be notified.
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