Adult Courses

Do you wish your garden was more colourful and interesting in the winter months? Are you interested in discovering the beauty of textured bark, colourful stems, bright evergreen foliage and fragrance? This course will show you how, with careful planning, your garden can be more colourful all year round.

Do you wish your garden was more colourful and interesting in the winter months? Are you interested in discovering the beauty of textured bark, colourful stems, bright evergreen foliage and fragrance? This course will show you how, with careful planning, your garden can be more colourful all year round.

Course aims:

-to explore a range of attractive trees and shrubs for all year round interest

-to assess the bark, stems, flowers and berries qualities of trees and shrubs

- to evaluate the range of evergreen foliage, variegated ,gold and purple

-to identify at least outstanding winter interest 10 trees and shrubs

With illustrated talks, group work, walks in the College grounds for inspiration, plenty of time for questions and discussions, this course will give you the confidence to plan for enhanced colour in your garden

What to Bring:

Note book and pencil

Any favourite garden books /articles you already have

Strong outdoor walking shoes

Rain jacket

Useful Books

Hilliers Manual of Trees and Shrubs, Dorling Kindersley, 1996 and other editionsBrickell,C.,(Ed.)The RHS New Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers, Dorling KIndersley, 199 and later editions,

Notcutts Book of Plants, Notcutts Garden Centres

Sterndale Bennett,J.,The Winter Garden, David and Charles 2006

About the tutor

Letta Jones MA, is a Lecturer in Horticulture and Garden History. She was at Capel Manor and Birkbeck Colleges for 15 years. She teaches at the South London Botanical Institute,Knuston Hall,Denman College,WEA,City Literary Institution and gives talks for gardening clubs,WI, archives and museums. She was a guide at the Chelsea Physic Garden for 18 years, is a Green Flag Park Judge, and has been a Marlborough College Summer School tutor since 2002.

www.lettajones.co.uk

Letta Jones

MA

About Letta

Letta Jones, MA is a Lecturer in Landscape Horticulture and the History of Gardens. She was a guide at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London for 18 years and now teaches workshops there, and at the City Lit. Her courses are also offered at Knuston Hall, Woodbrooke Quaker College, Glenthorne Centre and through Garden History Grapevine. Since 2002 she has been a Summer School tutor at Marlborough.

In Sep 2020 she will lead her own Gardens Study Tour to Holland, all are welcome, please ring ACE Tours for details 01223 841055.