Our events

We have finished our events for the summer but are resuming in September, and in October we’ll be starting our webinar season. See what we’ve got on offer on the diary page.

The ever-popular Naturalistic Planting Design Course will be re-starting in early October.

Check out our new podcast channel

We have a site on Substack as a podcast channel, offering weekly free podcasts, as well as tasters for more information-heavy content which will only be available to members. This carries the audio version of some of our Thursday Garden Chat output, as well as recordings made specifically as podcasts. We've also got a whole archive of material dating back to our first days online in 2020 – where this can be edited to be worthwhile listening to (as opposed to watching) we sometimes post some of this too.

These free podcasts are just the start. Members have access to more in-depth material: recordings with Ken Thompson, on 'garden myths' and a whole series, 'Know your plants' which Noel is recording with renowned teacher of horticulture Caroline Jackson.

"The offerings that you guys share with us are invaluable sources of knowledge and inspiration. It would be great to support gardenmasterclass further. Amazing you guys now have a podcast! I spend hours in the van every week and this is perfect!" CM 9.Sept.2024

Our website and recordings

Our online library of recorded webinars has around 80 hours of information, advice and inspiration from global garden and landscape experts. Take a look, and remember members get discounts. Check out the Members Benefits page!

We also have around 200 hours of recordings from our regular Thursday Garden Chat free broadcast series; all recent ones are on our You Tube channel and older ones are for members only.

Courses

We are running two courses in the autumn, our highly-successful Naturalistic Planting Design Course, with Nigel Dunnett, Noel Kingsbury and Cassian Schmidt, and, in collaboration with Britain’s Landscape Institute, a truly exceptional course on tree selection by leading Swedish academic Henrik Sjöman.

Films

Our first film - Wildside, the Story of a Garden, now has a sequel ! Following Keith Wiley, its creator through the seasons, as he shares his horticultural and design tips. And we’ve got another film available now, about a remarkably atmospheric garden in Wales. Find out more here.

In-person events

Our summer season of live events is well under way, informative visits to Tom Stuart-Smith’s innovative Plant Library, the private arboretum of White House Farm and John Little’s experimental garden - see the diary pages.

Gift Vouchers

Gift Vouchers are available and can be used for membership, live events and webinars. Email us on info@gardenmasterclass.org

Going international

We’re hugely proud of our sister organisations Garden Masterclass Polska and Academia del Paisaje, who we helped set up. They do what we do in Poland and in Spain and the Spanish-speaking Americas. And ‘discussions are being held’ about a Portuguese initiative too! And not affiliated to us, but a sister organisation who do similar things in Germany - Campus Botanicus.

Thursday Garden Chat

We record this every Thursday for our You Tube channel, and crucially …… we run this as a free public service, with ourselves and our contributors giving their time for free. Needless to say there are costs and we really appreciate donations to help with these and to compensate for our time spent on admin and editing.