Horticulture courses at the Eden Project
Learn gardening with our enthusiastic and experienced experts, and work towards the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Eden Project Certificate in Practical Horticulture.
The courses are now fully booked for 2011/12. To register your interest for the 2012/13 courses, please email pdarby@edenproject.com.
Our gardening courses are ideal for anyone who wants to develop their practical gardening skills and knowledge, whether you're:
- a keen amateur
- beginning a career in horticulture
- thinking of changing your career and going into horticulture.
The programme of eight one-day practical gardening sessions, now in its fourth year, is taught by the experts in the Eden Horticultural Team. The eight sessions can be enjoyed one by one or taken as a complete course.
More reasons to sign up
- Our courses are ideal for people who are working and can't attend full-time college courses.
- They are practical courses where you will get your hands dirty, unlike many other short gardening courses, which are purely theoretical.
- You will learn key skills to start you off in gardening, so that you can
build on them, with confidence, yourself. - The course structure allows you to practise each set of skills over a growing season, in between each Saturday of delivery.
- Book all eight days together and get a 10% discount and an Eden Project Annual Pass, giving you free entry for a year.
Venues
The courses are taught at the main Eden Project site in Bodelva, Cornwall, and Eden’s Watering Lane Nursery nearby.
Offered with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The Eden Project is pleased to collaborate on this course with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), which has been training students and
professionals in horticulture for over a century. The RBGE Certificate in Practical Horticulture is a modern qualification that draws on this wealth of experience.
The assessment and verification guidelines are administered by both Eden and RBGE, which ensures that the qualification is standardised worldwide.
This international qualification has been taught in Oman, Turkey, Laos and Thailand.
Course dates and costs: 2011/12
You can book a course as an individual day or book all eight to receive a 10% discount.
| Course name | Date | Venue | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Understanding Plants | Sat 10 Sept 2011 | Eden | £50 |
| Plant Health Problems | Sat 8 Oct 2011 | Eden | £50 |
| Planting and Establishment | Sat 29 Oct 2011 | Nursery | £50 |
| Growing Media and Potting | Sat 19 Nov 2011 | Nursery | £50 |
| Established Plant Maintenance | Sat 3 Dec 2011 | Eden | £50 |
| Soils and Composting | Sat 14 Jan 2012 | Nursery | £50 |
| Seed Propagation | Sat 4 Feb 2012 | Nursery | £50 |
| Vegetative Propagation | Sat 17 March 2012 | Nursery | £50 |
| Review Day | Fri 15 June 2012 | Nursery | £50 |
| Assessment Day | Sat 16 June 2012 | Nursery | £50 |
More information
Programme overview (PDF)
Short gardening workshops
Learn how to garden in these one-hour workshops, taught by Eden gardeners, in Truro.
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