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The RHS centre is located on the 60 hectare Avonbank Campus of Pershore College with its landscaped gardens, orchards, plant collections, arboretum, library and educational facilities.
The centre offers an extensive programme of events throughout the year, attracting people from all parts of the country, and is open all year round between 10am and 5pm on weekdays.All tickets must be booked in advance. Some events sell out quickly, so we cannot guarantee that places will be available if not pre-booked.
Should it be necessary for you to cancel your booking, please note that the refund of fees is at the discretion of the centre. It may be necessary to cancel an event due to insufficient ticket sales, in which case fees will be refunded. Circumstances may require that the organisers engage a tutor of equal standing without notice.
You may book tickets by telephoning and quoting your credit/debit card number to 01386 554609 or by post to the address below, with cheques payable to ‘Warwickshire College’.
RHS Centre Pershore College Avonbank Pershore Worcestershire WR10 3JP
Save money on courses with RHS membership! Plus enjoy days out for less and other exclusive RHS member benefits. Call us to find out more quoting 1887.
Photograph on front cover Iris ‘Haut les Voiles’, taken by Duncan Coombs
Book SIXtwo hour
courses and get
ONE of them
fREE
JANUARY
Tue 7 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in JanuarySeasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 14 2-4pm Lecture Designing Gardens with WaterWater features ‘yes or no’? This lecture, with Carol Smith, will explore the design, practical and aesthetic qualities of the various types of water feature available; the benefits to the user and nature of including a water feature in the garden. Learn how the garden becomes a completely different environment with a water feature, no matter how simple. By the end of this talk the answer will be ‘yes’!
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 21 2-4pm Lecture The History and Restoration of Painswick Rococo GardenThe session will begin with a lecture by Paul Moir, Garden Director of Painswick Rococo Garden. This will be followed by an illustrated talk by Duncan Coombs on snowdrops for your garden.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 28 2-4pm Lecture Into the High Mountains of ChinaDuncan Coombs returns to his beloved China to see more of the choice alpine plants and people of the remoter parts of Yunnan.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
FEBRUARY
Sat 1 10am-1pm Workshop Floral Designs Using Weaving and PlaitingLearn these different techniques to add distinction to your floral designs.
£30.00 mem£35.00 non( includes materials)
Tue 4 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in FebruarySeasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
For booking and membership details telephone 01386 554609 or email: rhs@warkscol.ac.uk
FEBRUARY (CONTINUED)
Tue 4 7.30pm Special Event An Evening with James WongThis is part of a national tour by botanist, James Wong, to set the record straight regarding horticulture as a career, which is often dismissed as being unacademic. It will be especially interesting to those considering horticulture as a career.
Free(booking essential as places are limited)
Tue 11 2-4pm Lecture You Can’t Buy These – Unusual and Delicious Vegetables From Your GardenChris Smith, from Pennard Plants, will look at the many vegetables that you cannot buy and will have to grow yourself! He will also show you how to use them in the kitchen.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 18 2-4pm Lecture Designing & Planting the Fruit GardenAs well as covering the choice of site and protection from adverse weather, John Edgeley will also cover soil preparation, choice of plants and their cultivars, spacing, support and training for shape, together with choice of rootstocks.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Thu 20 Depart 10am
Visit A Visit to Painswick Rococo GardenJoin us on a guided tour of these famous gardens with Head Gardener, Steve Quinton, when snowdrops carpet the woodland. A minibus will go from Pershore College or you can meet us there.
Price on application
Sat 22 9.30am-3.30pm
Workshop Fruit Tree PruningTo be held at Hanbury Hall, near Droitwich, this workshop will focus on pruning top fruit. Participants will need to bring their own lunch and wear working clothes.
£60.00 mem£65.00 non
For booking and membership details telephone 01386 554609 or email: rhs@warkscol.ac.uk
FEBRUARY (CONTINUED)
Tue 25 2-4pm Lecture The Pond Owner’s CalendarThis talk by RHS Gold Medal winner, Linda Smith, will show propagation and other tasks, as well as planting highlights for each season of the year.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
MARCH
Sat 1 10am-1pm Workshop Hand Tied Floral Designs Create unique designs with St David in mind!
£30.00 mem£35.00 non( includes all materials)
Tue 4 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in MarchSeasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 11 2-4pm Lecture Foraging From Your GardenMany shrubs and trees that we grow can yield something delicious to eat. In this lecture, Chris Smith, from Pennard Plants, will show what is good and what you might like to plant for beauty and edibility.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 15 10am-4pm
Workshop Advanced Fruit Tree PruningAt this workshop, to be held at Pershore College, John Edgeley will take people, who have already attended one of our Fruit Tree Pruning workshops, a step further. Participants should wear working clothes.
£65.00 mem£70.00 non( includes sandwich lunch and refreshments)
Tue 18 2-4pm Lecture/Demonstration/Walk
What Now? – Spring Whether you are a new or a keen gardener, Duncan Coombs will help you brush up your skills for tasks such as pruning. He will include a walk round the College grounds to see what is of interest at this time of the year.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
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MARCH (CONTINUED)Thu 20 7.30pm Special Event Joint RHS/Institute of Horticulture
Lecture – ‘The Olympic Park Flower Meadows – An Inspiration for Public Green Spaces’It seems highly likely that a majority of the near 5 million people, who visited the Olympic Park in 2012, were excited, moved or, at the very least, constructively perplexed by the planting they saw. What, therefore, are the ideas and principles that we might extract from the work done to achieve these areas, and how could they apply to other green spaces and gardens around the UK? Dr James Hitchmough, of Sheffield University, was the expert behind the project, so come and get the answers.
£7.00 mem£8.50 non
Sat 22 9am-4pm Special Event The College Nursery SaleThe College’s Nursery will be holding a Sale Day.
FreeFor more information ring 01386 551177.
Tue 25 2-4pm Lecture Grow It Yourself – Propagation 1In this practical session, Bob Hares will look at the skills and techniques of seed sowing and division, together with aftercare advice.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
ApRilTue 1 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in April
Seasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 8 2-4pm Lecture Designing and Planting Structure for the BorderIn this lecture, Carol Smith will explore why a garden needs planting structure. She will look at the design, practical and aesthetic qualities, and how to choose, plan and use structural plants.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 12 Depart 8am
Visit Coach to RHS Flower Show, CardiffSet in Bute Park, this RHS Spring Show marks the beginning of the RHS’s show season.
Coach £20.00 (you will need to obtain your own show ticket)
ApRil (CONTINUED)
Sat 12 10am-1pm Workshop Floral Designs for EasterCreate bespoke designs to decorate your home for Easter.
£30.00 mem£35.00 non(includes materials)
Mon 14 10.30am-4.00pm
Workshop Creating Willow Structures If you have always wanted to learn the tra-ditional skills of willow weaving, join Norah Kennedy who will show you how to make your own garden structures.
£70.00 mem£75.00 non (includes all materials, sandwich lunch and refreshments)
Wed 16 7.30pm Special EventRHS ‘Growing for Success’ Lecture
More ‘Wow’ and Less Work – Grasses and Their Place in Our GardensGrasses offer stunning design and easy maintenance. In this lecture, Neil Lucas combines cultural information with his personal gardening philosophy, to bring the story of his work and developments at Knoll Gardens up to date.
£9.00 mem£11.50 non(tea/coffee included)This event is not included in the ‘Book 6 get 1 free’ offer.
Wed 23 -Sat 26
Depart Pershore College7.30am
Special Event Tour to the Bulb Fields in Holland Staying in the historic town of Delft, join us on this tour which will include the world famous Keukenhof Gardens and the Flower Market at Aalsmeer.
Price on application
Sun 27 11am- 5pm
Special Event Spetchley Park Specialist Plant FairJoin us at this annual event with over 30 nursery stands.www.plantfair.co.uk
Entry £5.0001531 650480
Tue 29 2-4pm Lecture/ Demonstration
The Secrets of Successful Container GardeningPaul Williams will take you through the techniques for producing a successful container for ‘year round’ interest.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
For booking and membership details telephone 01386 554609 or email: rhs@warkscol.ac.uk
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MAYTue 6 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in May
Seasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Thu 8-Sun 11
RHS Malvern Spring Festival Enquiries and bookings01684 584924
Tue 13 2-4pm Lecture The Ornamental World of Non-Edible LegumesLeila Jackson will take you on a journey through the botany, science and orna-mental beauty of the legume family, which includes the traditional beauty of the lupins through to more unusual American natives such as Baptisia. Their versatility, colour range and length of flowering make them a ‘must have’ for the garden.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Wed 21 Depart 7.30am
Visit Coach to Chelsea Flower ShowLet us arrange your travel so you can have a stress free visit to this world famous flower show.
Coach £25.00 (you will need to obtain your own show ticket, which should be booked by the end of January)
JUNETue 3 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in June
Seasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 7 10am-4pm
Special Event Pershore College Open DayDisplays, demonstrations, plant sales, gardening advice and refreshments.
Free
Tue 10 2-4pm Lecture Designing and Planting the Formal GardenWhat is it that makes a garden formal? Carol Smith will look at how to achieve a formal garden with both hard landscaping and planting.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
For booking and membership details telephone 01386 554609 or email: rhs@warkscol.ac.uk
JUNE (CONTINUED)Wed 11 -Sun 15
BBC Gardeners’ World Live at NEC, Birmingham
Tue 17 2-4pm Lecture AromaticaThis talk, by Kim and Rob Hurst from The Cottage Herbery, will cover a selection of aromatic plants and flowers that add perfume, scent and aroma to our gardens, from the numerous mints to the tangy lemon verbena and so many more. They will also discuss their uses past and present.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Wed 18 Depart 8am
Visit Coach to RHS Garden RosemoorEnjoy this Summer visit to the RHS Garden in North Devon, when the roses will be at their best.
Coach £25.00 (entry free for member + family guest)
Tue 24 2-4pm Lecture Grow It Yourself – Propagation 2In this workshop, Bob Hares will look at softwood and semi-ripe cuttings, together with their aftercare.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 28 10am-1pm Workshop Floral Designs From Your GardenCreate imaginative designs using flowers and foliage from your garden.
£30.00 mem£35.00 non( includes materials)
Sun 29-Wed 2 July
DepartPershore College
Special Event Summer Garden Tour to YorkshireJoin Duncan Coombs on this tour, based in York, and visit many gardens including Newby Hall, Scampston Walled Garden and Harlow Carr.
Price on application
JUlY
Tue 1 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in JulySeasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 8 2-4pm Lecture My Thirty Best PlantsBob Brown, from Cotswold Garden Flowers, will share with you his thirty best plants and why these are better than their friends.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
JUlY (CONTINUED)
Wed 9 Depart 7.30am
Visit Coach to RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower ShowTravel by coach to the UK’s largest Flower Show, set in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace.
Coach £25.00 (you will need to obtain your own show ticket)
Tue 15 2-4pm Lecture/Demonstration/Walk
What Now? – Summer Whether you are a new or a keen gardener, Duncan Coombs will help you brush up your skills for tasks such as pruning. He will include a walk round the College grounds to see what is of interest at this time of the year.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 22 2-4pm Lecture Designing and Planting the Low Maintenance GardenDoes your garden require a lot of hard work to keep it under control? Carol Smith will show you how, with design, planning and planting, you can reduce maintenance to a minimum.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Wed 23 Depart8am
Visit Coach to RHS Flower Show Tatton Park Join us on a visit, on Members’ Day, to the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park, which is set in the beautiful Cheshire countryside.
Coach £20.00 (you will need to obtain your own show ticket)
Tue 29 2-4pm Lecture/Walk Penstemons and Their Ideal Planting PartnersJo Yates and Julia Mitchell, from GreenJJam Nursery, will look at Penstemon varieties, old and new, and plants that grow well with them. We will also visit the National Collection held at the college.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
AUgUSt
Tue 5 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in AugustSeasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 9 1.30-4.30pm
Workshop Summer Fruit Tree PruningThis workshop will give you the opportu-nity for hands-on pruning, to control tree growth and improve fruit colour on both restricted and extensive tree forms.
£13.00 mem£15.00 non
Tue 12 2-4pm Lecture Colour Combinations – from Subtle to StrikingThis lecture, by Julie Ritchie from Hoo House Nursery, will look at Perennials that are perfect for each other, with soil and season in mind, as well as that eye-catching quality that turns a gardener into an artist with plants.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
SEptEMBER
Tue 2 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in SeptemberSeasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 6 Depart 8am
Visit Coach to RHS Wisley Flower Show Join us on a visit to the RHS Garden in Sur-rey to see some of the late Summer colour and the annual Wisley Flower Show.
Coach £25.00 (entry free for member + family guest)
Tue 9 2-4pm Lecture A Passion for ClimbersTynings Nursery are specialists in all kinds of climbing plants and hold the National Collections for Passion Flower, Jasmine and Mandevilla. In this lecture they will talk about these and many other climbers including the more unusual.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Book SIXtwo hour courses and get ONE of them fREEFor booking and membership details telephone 01386 554609 or email: rhs@warkscol.ac.uk
SEptEMBER (CONTINUED)
Tue 16 2-4pm Lecture Planting and Planning for your Spring Bulb DisplayFrank Hardy will look at how to use bulbs to give a wonderful Spring display in your garden and containers.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sun 21 11am-5pm Special Event Spetchley Park Specialist Plant Fairwww.plantfair.co.uk
Entry £5.0001531 650480
Tue 23 2-4pm Lecture The Sustainable GardenThis is a particular passion of Carol Smith. She will look at the need for sustainable gardens and how to achieve them, using natural planting schemes to support our wildlife.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 27- Sun 28
Malvern Autumn Show Enquiries and bookings01684 584924
Tue 30 2-4pm Workshop Grow it Yourself – Propagation 3In this workshop, Bob Hares will look at propagating half hardy plants and early hardwood cuttings, together with their aftercare.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
oCtoBER
Sat 4 9am-4pm Special Event The College Nursery SaleThe College’s Nursery will be holding a Sale Day.
FreeFor more information ring 01386 551177.
Tue 7 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in OctoberSeasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
For booking and membership details telephone 01386 554609 or email: rhs@warkscol.ac.uk
oCtoBER (CONTINUED)
Sat 11 10am-1pm Workshop Floral Designs for the Harvest FestivalDecorate your home and church with the fruits and flowers of Autumn.
£30.00 mem£35.00 non( includes materials)
Tue 14 7.30pm Special Event RHS/Plant Heritage – Ron Sidwell Lecture – ‘I Believe in the Western Cape’Specialist nurseryman, Julian Sutton, will give us an introduction to winter-rainfall South African plants, their wild habit and cultivation.
£8.00 mem£9.50 non
Sat 18 10am- 4pm
Workshop Amateur Fruit Juicing & Cider MakingThis practical workshop will introduce the participants to the delights of making juice from their own fruit. The course will also include guidance on the production of cider, as well as non-alcoholic drinks. (An additional date will be arranged if num-bers are high.)
£60.00 mem£65.00 non( includes light lunch)
Tue 21 2-4pm Lecture Eucalyptus – Troublesome Child or Sim-ply Misunderstood?Hilary Collins will take a brief look at this fascinating genus. Of the 800+ species available, she will examine several that are hardy enough for the UK. She will show you how they can be used to great effect in your garden as a beautiful specimen, a screen, windbreak, for firewood production and cut foliage.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 28 2-4pm Lecture Roses and Peonies – a Marriage Made in HeavenThe handsome foliage, flowers and colours of these two highly bred plants go together so well in a border and are easy to grow. In this lecture, Val Bourne will look at the best combinations for modern planting and follow the evolution of the Peony, together with when to move and divide them.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
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NovEMBER
Tue 4 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in NovemberSeasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 11 2-4pm Lecture What Do I Do with My Existing or New Garden?Carol Smith will explore ways of rejuvenating parts of your existing garden, followed by working with a new garden.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 15 10am-4pm
Workshop Fruit Tree PruningTo be held at Hanbury Hall, near Droitwich, this workshop will focus on pruning top fruit. Participants will need to bring their own lunch and wear working clothes.
£60.00 mem£65.00 non
Tue 18 2-4pm Lecture/Demonstration/Walk
What Now? – WinterWhether you are a new or a keen gardener, Duncan Coombs will help you brush up your skills for tasks such as pruning. He will include a walk round the College grounds to see what is of interest at this time of the year.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Tue 25 2-4pm Lecture It’s Not Time for Bed Yet – Late Season Colour in the GardenHelen Picton, from Colwall Nurseries, will look at what will bring colour to your garden as we approach the Autumn/Winter months.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 29 9am-4pm Special Event Tree and Hedging DayFor further details telephone the Plant Centre on 01386 551149.
Free
For booking and membership details telephone 01386 554609 or email: rhs@warkscol.ac.uk
Book SIXtwo hour courses and get ONE of them fREE
Jill pearson RHS Centre Pershore College Avonbank Pershore Worcestershire WR10 3JP
T: 01386 554609/552443 E: jpearson@warkscol.ac.uk
Pershore College offers the RHS Level 2 and 3 Certificates in the theory and practice of Horticulture. We also offer RHS courses by distance learning.
For further information on these and on other courses at Pershore, including Floristry, Landscaping and Garden Design, please contact the college on 01386 552443.
FREEgARDENADviCE
Free Garden Advice is available to RHS Members every Tuesday from 9.00am-5.00pm
T: 01386 551145E: dcoombs@warkscol.ac.uk
All information in this publication is correct at time of going to print.
The RHS Centre and Pershore College cannot guarantee that the events provided will strictly conform to the description in this booklet.
Any changes are made in the interests of improvement.
If you are planning on visiting the college, please inform us if you have any individual needs, for example access, disabled parking or require emergency evacuation assistance.
DECEMBER
Tue 2 2-4pm Demonstration Around your Garden in DecemberSeasonal plants and gardening tasks with Bob Hares.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Sat 6 10am-1pm Workshop Christmas Wreath MakingDecorate your door for the festive season.
£30.00 mem£35.00 non( includes materials)
Tue 9 2-4pm Lecture Trees for the Small GardenTrees can provide flowers, colour, scent, shade and shelter for the garden but, if poorly selected, can also become too large. Duncan Coombs will talk about trees of predictably small dimensions that, if properly positioned, will not become a problem.
£9.00 mem£11.00 non
Fri 19 Repeated Sat 20
10am-4pm
Workshop Floral Designs for ChristmasCreate floral displays to make the home look festive and colourful for the Christmas season.
£60.00 mem£65.00 non( includes materials)
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