Garden Masterclass is a place to share experience, knowledge, skills and ideas.

For garden designers, landscape architects, horticulture professionals, keen home gardeners and anyone else concerned with quality and biodiverse planting.

What’s on

Workshops, webinars, courses, films and our the weekly Thursday Garden Chat – find out here what’s coming up in our rich and varied programme. Currently Member Priority Booking for Jason Ingram and Dan Pearson workshops

Online course

Naturalistic Planting Design Course

28 Sep 2026 – 8 Mar 2027 (11 sessions)

A hugely popular course which ranges from the basics of plant ecology, through the interpretation of natural vegetation patterns, to the practicalities of planting.

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Noel on the new Queen Elizabeth Garden in London’s Regents Park

Tuesday 29 September 2026, 6.00pm

"The most important new public garden in London this century" so says former Royal Parks Board member Wesley Kerr,

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Online event

Arjan Boekel – Spatial Relations in Planting

Wednesday 16 December 2026, 6.00pm

Learn about a key issue in planting from a leading designer

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Online event

Sophie Guinness on foliage-driven planting design

Tuesday 24 November 2026, 6.00pm

Designing planting that always looks good (not just when its flowering)

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Watch & Listen

Explore our range of webinar and workshop recordings, podcasts and the recordings from our Thursday Garden Chat series.

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Darren Lerigo
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Darren Lerigo

Darren Lerigo - the provocations of the modern topiarist

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Tom Stuart-Smith – The Longevity of Plantings
Recorded Event

Tom Stuart-Smith – The Longevity of Plantings

In gardens and public spaces the long-term sustainability of planting design is ever more important. Tom looks honestly at what has thrived, survived or died.

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Tim Ingram on Apiaceae
Recorded Event

Tim Ingram on Apiaceae

Cow parsley, Queen Anne's lace, hemlock and many many more from this versatile but underrated family

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Alla Olkhovska on Clematis
Recorded Event

Alla Olkhovska on Clematis

Clematis are an enormously varied group. Alla, who gardens near Kharkiv, Ukraine, will discuss the three pruning groups, focussing on her favourites within each group talking about their main characteristics and their growing.

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Thursday Garden Chat

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Online Courses

Between September and April we offer a number of courses primarily aimed at garden and landscape design professionals

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Podcasts

We do a weekly podcast on Substack, talking to influential garden and landscape people

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Join our community, become a member

Becoming a member entitles you to discounts on events and recordings, and early access to ticketing for live events. There's also an information-packed podcast series, exclusive to members.

Memberships

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Join our workshop with James Hitchmough at Bergamo

Planting design and management on “dry” recycled mineral in poorly resourced urban landscapes"

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Premium Membership

Get unlimited access to over 200 information packed hours of our recorded webinars. See the Memberships Page

In the Footsteps of Giants

The legacies of gardening greats: Vita Sackville-West, Beth Chatto and Gertrude Jekyll. Members have discounted access to recording

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