Pruning
Learn how to tackle and tame unruly shrubs in our day-long pruning workshop
Have you ever wondered how to prune your woody plants in the garden?
If you answered yes, then this is the course for you! The course will discuss pruning tools, the main pruning groups used when pruning shrubs and practical demonstrations will be carried out to show how to make proper pruning cuts and the type of material to remove on commonly grown species.
This course will give you confidence to go out into the garden and tackle your overgrown shrubs.
About the tutor
Christine Lavelle is a lecturer in horticulture and ecology at Writtle College, Chelmsford, UK, and an external examiner for the School of Horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She trained at the National Trust for Scotland’s Threave School of Practical Gardening and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Christine was assistant Head Gardener at Levens Hall topiary gardens in Kendal and Hardy Ornamentals Team leader at Askham Bryan College in York. Her main areas of work are in organic growing and wildlife gardening.
Together, Christine and her husband Michael Lavelle won the Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year Award in 2003 and 2008 for their books Organic Gardening and How to Create a Wildlife Garden (both published by Lorenz Books).