The Cottage Garden and Potager
For everyone who dreams of a beautiful and productive cottage garden, the Cottage Garden and Potager at Rosemoor provide the perfect inspiration. You will learn more about this style of garden, a little of the history of a traditional potager, and consider how to grow a successful combination of fruit, vegetables and cutting flowers - the essentials of a potager – whatever your size of garden.
Viv Hunt, independent gardener and garden consultant, will talk about some of the garden design elements that go into a garden of this type, then lead a garden walk to the Cottage Garden and Potager where you will be able to see how the theory relates to the gardens at RHS Rosemoor.
To finish the session, you will have the opportunity to plant some seeds of some of the plants that you have seen growing today, so that you can enjoy them later on in your own garden.
Tutor: Viv Hunt was previously Head Gardener at an RHS partner garden in Kent. She has trained many younger gardeners through the Professional Gardeners Guild training scheme and presented regular workshops for amateur gardeners. She is now a garden consultant working in private gardens in Devon and the South East.
Location and arrival information: The workshop will take place in the Peter Buckley Learning Centre, and outdoors in the Garden. Please allow 15 minutes to park in the main visitor car park, enter the garden and get to the Learning Centre.
Catering: Tea / coffee and biscuits will be available in the classroom.
For this workshop you will need:
- Your booking reference number to show to the team at the Garden Entrance.
- A notebook and pencil to make notes.
- Wear clothes and shoes suitable to the weather on the day as approximately half of the session will be spent outdoors / in the Garden.
Skill Level: General – I want to enjoy, discover or learn from this workshop, whatever what my existing skill level.
