Rose & Winter Pruning

Acquire skills for pruning your roses and discover how to tame garden bushes and shrubs to promote lush foliage.

Learn the art of pruning your roses to ensure flourishing growth and flowers for the summer season. Also discover how to tame your other garden bushes and shrubs to create light, better ventilation and promote lush foliage.

A practical hands-on full-day course.

Tutor David Milne is a qualified horticulturalist from Scotland where he worked for several private estates as well as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. In Christchurch he became a full-time tutor with Agribusiness and is currently Head Gardener at Golden Health Care Group.

Rose Pruning: Identifying types of roses | Tools, equipment and hygiene | Technique | Aftercare | Pest and disease prevention

Winter Pruning: Winter tidy up | Identifying when and what to pruneMethods | Improve ventilation and prevent disease | Mulch

(Rain day Sunday 1 August)