Hannah Fox, of micro-nursery Bright Green Fox, talks through the essentials of plant propagation that can be applied to a very wide range of garden plants enabling viewers to confidently approach multiplying their plants cheaply and efficiently. And all in an entrancingly beautiful garden!

We spent a full year filming flower farmer Rachel Siegfried and her partner Ash Pearson on their beautiful farm Green and Gorgeous in Oxfordshire.  Rachel guides us through all the major annual tasks, beginning with seed sowing on a frosty January morning, working through all four seasons; until ...

The Dutch garden designer talks about the use of woody plants in and around perennial gardens to create structure, framing, screening and helping borrow landscapes.

Troy Scott-Smith, head gardener at Iford Manor was previously the head gardener at Sissinghurst Castle, the home of Vita Sackville-West, and arguably one of the world’s most romantic rose gardens. Using many of the roses that he grew there over his 12 years, he will advise on selecting and growin...

The Dutch garden designer and bulb expert makes a presentation which features “my own garden and the experiments with bulbs there, my work for Keukenhof, for private clients ( smaller gardens), Lurie Garden, 2 castles in Germany and so on, with LOTS of tulips”. A particular focus of her work has ...

The legacy of our most influential garden designer.

The art of setting out perennials in larger planting schemes by the world's leading garden and planting designer.

At the heart of the fantastical imaginative garden of Chanticleer is the gravel garden, cared for Lisa Roper, who shares her immense knowledge and skill in this webinar, which since she is one of Chanticleer's lead photographers, is also a real visual treat as well as a great learning experience.

Adam Shepherd, Britain's leading living wall builder explains his craft

Leading garden photographer shares his extensive knowledge

One of Britain's leading perennial nursery people introduces us to one of the most important perennial genera.

The potential of creating diverse plant communities and important habitats by freeing yourself from the yoke of top soil are huge.  We will look at how using mineral soils, construction waste and sands can help to redress the ‘blandlandscaping' within public space, developments and highways.  Tak...

Tom Coward, Head Gardener at Gravetye Manor, the home of the influential and sometimes controversial garden writer during the early 20th century shows around the garden and discusses Robinson's continued influence, with a focus on his most famous work, 'The Wild Garden'. Illustrated with some won...

Dan Pearson and Midori Shintani talk about their new book Tokachi Millennium Forest, which tells the story of a remarkable garden that began over thirty years ago in Hokkaido, the most northerly of the islands that make up Japan.  This exemplary project puts nature at the heart of the human exper...

Dan Benarcik has spent the last 28 years creating and implementing seasonal displays within courtyard gardens at Chanticleer. His focus has long been using tropical and non hardy plants with a strong emphasis on dynamic design, creative container combinations and innovative display. He believes t...

Panayoti Kelaides
The four semi-arid, continental climate regions of the planet characterized as possessing a Steppe climate (Central Asia, Western America, Patagonia and the Karoo of South Africa) harbor an enormous proportion of the world’s plant species. They have also been corridors of human ...

Hester Forde on snowdrops and galanthophilia

David Mattern of Chanticleer looks at various ways of integrating vegetable growing into the decorative garden, thinking not just about the space they occupy, but also containers and support structures. As we expect from Chanticleer, practicality and artistry combine for some beautiful results.

Annie Guilfoyle
Annie explores how garden designers can increase the creativity in their working practice.  She demonstrates that working with concepts can benefit the design process and how some lateral thinking and collaborative work makes a project not only more enjoyable but often results in ...

Elliott, is Head Gardener for a Tom Stuart-Smith designed garden in Scotland. He formerly worked at Cambo and there became known for his skilfully designed and maintained perennial and seasonal plantings. Here he looks at the design, planning, layout and finessing of perennial plantings. This is ...

Although flowering grasses are well-known to gardeners, the evergreen grasses and their allies such as sedges and woodrushes are less well known. Coming from frequently difficult and testing situations, such as dry shade or wet and boggy soils, this relatively unsung group are invaluable to garde...

What happens once a design has been approved by the client? Dutch landscape designer Tom de Witte takes an in-depth look at the process of a garden design project, particularly focussing on the potential pitfalls and problems that can occur; how to avoid them and what measures you can take to ens...

Spring-flowering woodland plants are amongst the choicest of garden plants: often slow-growing but immensely rewarding when they become established and spread. Eastern North America and the Far East have particularly rich and gorgeous woodland floras, which are in fact very closely-related but lo...

Suffolk is one of the driest counties in the UK yet for a large part of the year, Tom’s woodland is underwater. As an experiment beginning five years ago, he began planting species to see how they would perform under such conditions, with a view to creating a woodland planting scheme requiring th...

We’re all familiar with those low ground-covering Epimediums, that usefully make a bid for world domination in dry shade. But of late plant-hunters have scoured the remotest parts of Sichuan and Yunnan in China and discovered dozens more species. They have brought them home to the UK and the US w...

Natural pools offer wildlife-friendly, year-round wild swimming and a multi-functional outdoor living space; they inspire a healthier, happier life. They take landscape architecture to another level and open a whole new world of planting design. Sarah Murch, Natural Pool Specialist and Landscape ...

How to use tall perennials, grasses and annuals in the modern garden to create an immersive feel.  Using the garden at Wildegoose Nursery as a case study this talk will look at how to use taller plants and also which we really could not be without. http://wildegoosenursery.co.uk

Professor Nigel Dunnett of the renowned Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield outlines his vision of naturalistic planting for urban areas. He talks enthusiastically about his sources of inspiration and some of the projects he was worked on in British cities.

How to turn challenging factors like drought, wind, salt or flooding to something positive. Peter Korn has established a reputation for promoting the somewhat counterintuitive idea that many plants grow well in deep beds of sand or gravel. Here, with examples from public projects and his own priv...

One of Spain’s leading garden designers looks at how to 'break the mould’ by using plants in a very different way to the rigid classical formality which has so dominated garden making in the Mediterranean region. He explains how randomness, repetition and  intermingling are key to creating more n...

Roger Parsons covers sowing, supporting, tying in, and all the other tricks of the trade to grow the of this classic summer flower.

Peonies are among the finest but also the most exuberant flowers in the garden, and they are not so easy to combine with other perennials. Because of this, they are often used all by themselves. But if you - like Cassian Schmidt - get inspired by their wild locations, you can come up with complet...

This talk takes a wide ranging look at the genus Erythronium in cultivation covering nearly all the known species as well as some of the garden hybrids. The key features of how to identify the species are illustrated along with the cultivation methods used to grow them in the garden including sta...

The garden at Great Dixter is known for the way in which it merges the natural and the cultivated world. Its long grass, scattered ponds, old walls and changing flower borders provide a rich environment for all manner of fauna and flora. During 2018-2020 surveys and assessments were made by speci...

Over 20% of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) are on land we have previously trashed. Why are these seemingly devastated places fast becoming the most precious and biodiverse parts of our landscape? We look at how we can embed the structural and substrate diversity of the open mosaic la...

Gwendolyn van Paasschen interviews designers Annie Guilfoyle, Andrew Duff and Cleve West about the legacy of designer John Brookes and how they have been influenced by his work and his writing.

Cow parsley, Queen Anne's lace, hemlock and many many more. A huge, but underrated, family which Tim Ingram explores in detail, outlining the family's various sections and flagging up the species we should be considering for our gardens. Tim gardens in a dry part of Kent and has built up huge exp...

The Grasslands Garden at Horniman Museum in South London, were designed by James to celebrate critically threatened, wild landscapes. His extensive research explores how wild landscapes can inform urban green space design to create stunning wild flower plantings that not only look good but also ...

Shropshire nurseryman Jack introduces us to the reliably hardy violas of which he and his wife Laura have a national collection. He talks us through cultivation, their colourful history (involving a couple of rather lurid characters) and his top twenty favourite varieties.

A day looking at how plants grow in the wild and how we might transfer these lessons to putting plants together in the garden. Sarah Price's training in Fine Art leads her to take a very different view to creating gardens to many other designers, an approach which she'll share with us today throu...

Spend the day with the Britain’s leading authority on ornamental grasses as he explores the use of grasses and perennials in the modern garden to provide stunning design, easy maintenance and hugely enjoyable green spaces. This event sees him expand upon his specialist subject to include the majo...

Cassian Schmidt, Director of Hermannshof Gardens in Germany, discusses the management of the garden's extensive range of perennial plantings, using plant ecology to inform maintenance plans. The time spent on each border is logged by the staff, so that over a year it is possible to see and compa...

Few plants have the appeal of witch hazel – that powerful sweet scent so unexpected on a cold winter's day and the magic of those warmly-coloured mysterious little flowers that smother the branches. Chris Lane is an internationally known nurseryman who holds the national collection of Witch Hazel...

One of our leading experts on woody plants, former Director of RHS Horticulture, Jim Gardiner, talks about selecting shrubs, including the importance of using good clones, and the value of the Award of Garden Merit scheme; enhancing their performance by cultural methods, in particular the importa...

Holder of the British national Aster collection and the third generation of her family to run a nursery, few are as well placed to talk about the number one late summer/autumn perennial genus. She focuses on the current taste for natural-looking  and robust plants, with lively descriptions of wha...

Imogen Checketts and Kate Dumbleton run a planting design business near Carcassonne in South-West France where they also have a small nursery of plants grown from their demonstration garden - Le Jardin Champetre

In this webinar, they will present a palette of plants for year-round interest in a ...

In gardens and public spaces the sustainability of planting design is ever more important. But it isn’t just the survival of the plants that we should be attending to – it’s the survival of the balance in a community of plants. Otherwise, as soon as you turn your back the planting will  deteriora...

The experimental dry meadow at West Dean in Sussex, made by Tom Brown and his team is still in its early stages, but looks likes it going to be a great success. Tom talks about his research into using recycled concrete and other materials as mulch, the selecting and growing of the plants and the ...

Hanna Packer, an experienced creator of gardens in her own right, is one of those trusted by Piet Oudolf to help in the implementation of his plans in New York and the US North East. Here she describes what was involved in a number of high-end garden projects: getting soils right, selecting trees...

Marian Boswall is an experienced landscape architect who has spent a lifetime exploring a sustainable approach to her work that combines the practical and the spiritual. Gardening for her is a way to "experience the infinite power of nature", and it is this sense of wonder and sensitivity she con...

Make more of garden visiting this year, through this webinar led by Katy Merrington, Cultural Gardener at The Hepworth Wakefield. Over the last few months Katy has been interviewing innovative plants-people, gardeners, writers and designers to collect practical techniques that you can employ on g...

Shade tolerance, lush foliage and unusual textures drew Richie Steffen, co-author and co-photographer of the Plant Lovers Guide to Ferns, to these ancient and beautiful plants over 25 years ago. His love of ferns has led to travels around the world to observe ferns growing in the wild as well as ...

An experienced landscape architect who has worked in many challenging situations takes us on a detailed look at how to plan coastal gardens, taking climate change and sea-level rise into consideration. He focuses on questions of aspect, flooding, wind exposure etc, and then discusses his strategy...

The first of a four part seasonal series based on the wonderful gardens of Chanticleer, Chris talks about the unique character, philosophy and working methods of this very special Pennsylvania garden. He goes on to discuss the various methods the staff have for protected tender plants over the w...

Darren is a gardener who specialises in topiary and pruning. He travels all round the UK and USA shaping shrubs and hedges with his shiny shears. He's interested in exploring how topiary can be used in a contemporary garden. This webinar looks at the minimal tools you actually need in order to cl...

Propagating Green Therapies in the UK-Joining the Dots
Recordings of a one-day conference on making green therapies available to all , held at Tuppenny Barn, Sussex held on Monday 9th October and hosted by Arit Anderson .

Harald Sauer's work as a planting designer and public greenspace manager is attracting plenty of attention in Germany. Now it's time for the rest of us to sit up and take notice too!
Harald is Head Gardener for Ebert Park in the Rhineland city of Ludwigshafen where he was faced with many historic...

Often overlooked by landscape architects, landscape management is as crucial as the design process for a project to be successful.  Heemparks - public parks designed with native Dutch species to reflect local ecosystems - act as valuable precedents for managing naturalistic landscapes, with caref...

Part of a seasonal series based on the wonderful gardens of Chanticleer, Chris talks about the unique character, philosophy and working methods of this very special Pennsylvania garden. He goes on to discuss the various autumnal tasks, particularly planting, editing plantings – e.g. this is a goo...

Renowned Dutch designer Carolien Barkman has years of experience of creating gardens in the dense urban environment of The Netherlands. Richly textured plant life flourishes in designs that always have a surprise, a twist, that makes them stand out. Here Carolien talks us through several of her p...

Tom is in conversation with Noel about the perennials he uses, the discussion focussing on what makes a really good performer. Tom goes on to talk about the Plant Library project he has started at his garden at Serge Hill, a remarkably innovative collection which will enable him and his team to e...

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Follow Keith Wiley through the year - his remarkable spring garden with naturalising bulbs, the exuberant summer garden, the intense colours of autumn and the bare bones of winter.

Learn about how Keith has shaped and sculpted his land to create conditions that an extraordinary array of plants, ...

Throughout her long career as a garden and landscape designer, author, and presenter, Julie Moir Messervy has always sought to create landscapes that resonate with beauty, joy and meaning through an approach which is perhaps best described as psychological, encouraging her clients to identify the...

Noel looks at the spontaneous vegetation that crops up in our gardens and plantings and discusses the extent to which it may, or may not, be problematic. He goes on to consider a variety of strategies to control plants defined as weeds, including chemical control. There is an interview with Adam ...

Winter - A season for 'Putting the Garden to Bed'? Not at all, winter is a season for doing and for enjoying. The bare blanket of earth, denuded of growth need not be. If harnessed properly, the potency of the season can be as exciting and as exuberant as the summer garden.
We will look at why we...

One of our leading garden photographers takes us on a lyrically beautiful but systematic tour around the basic technicalities of photographing plants and gardens, covering light, composition, camera settings as well as the more subjective – telling stories and getting inspired.

Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson of Far Reaches Farm and Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy in Port Townsend, Washington USA, share their passion for choice shade perennials.  Inveterate plant collectors guided by the mantra “Too much is never enough”, they will take an OCD wander through some of th...

Chris gives us another one of his insights into this most remarkable of gardens, looking at what makes spring special here, but also at the practical stuff that he and his colleagues get up to make the most of the season and to prepare the garden for the summer. This is a great opportunity to lea...

The Midwest's leading perennial grower shares a lifetime of experience in using perennials, urging us to take a 'plant first' approach to understanding their needs, to both cultivation and design. He discusses annual management tasks and shares tips on how to mesh plants together for effective co...

Ben, a planting designer in eastern Canada talks about trials he has run growing perennials (mostly natives) in deep mineral mulches, using either gravel or crushed concrete. His results support the work of others in this field, who claim many benefits: reduced weeding, manageable plant growth an...

Multi-stem trees have been making a big impact of late. New Wood is an small tree nursery situated in the South Devon countryside, established in 2008 to supply the UK market with British grown trees, specialising in field grown multi-stems, growing over 100 different tree varieties, supplying t...

Cassian explains the ecological and aesthetic potential of dry habitat plant communities and their potential in urban environments and gardens. He looks at stylized North American prairie, Eastern European steppe and Mediterranean garrigue and at how these natural models can provide a great palet...

Salvias are one of the most popular garden genera. We have invited one of Europe's leading growers of them to talk to us about this extremely varied genus. And although he'll mention some of the more exotic South American ones, with their vivid colours, the emphasis is more on the many hardy spec...

Growing up near the forest was Chanticleer gardener Przemek Walczak's primer to plant communities thriving in woodland conditions. Here he talks about some favourite plants, plant combinations, and some of the management practices used here, particularly as they affect biodiversity. He goes on to...

Created by Christina Shand and David Allum over many years, this is a garden that truly belongs to its (very special) landscape, welcomes local flora and habitats into its embrace, but at the same celebrates the formal, the exotic, the artistic, and sometimes, the eccentric. Of the many, many gar...

Rebecca McMackin is one of the leading, and most articulate US voices for biodiversity in the garden. She established her reputation by managing Brooklyn Bridge Park for ten years from its foundation, working to develop as a biodiversity hub and pursuing ethical employment practices. Here she tal...

Jack, who manages Oakwood, the historic William Robinson inspired heart of RHS Wisley, talks us through the sources of spectacular autumn colour that don't take up the whole of your garden. Plenty of ideas for small-growing trees and shrubs and a look at grasses and perennials too.

Everybody wants to help support pollinators but it is hard to find hard evidence about just what benefits they actually get from which garden flowers; for example are cultivars as good as species, are annuals better than perennials?
Emily is a researcher in the US who studies pollinators and the...

Till talks about gardening in Lower Franconia in southern Germany under increasingly extreme conditions. The Würzburg area has always been a dry region and has been a hotspot of climate change for years. "Die Staudengärtnerei", which he runs together with his wife Fine Molz in Rödelsee, is there...

Euphorbia is a much loved genus amongst gardeners and designers. Whilst the flowers tend to be rather similar, the growth habits, lifespans and habitat tolerances of the large number of species in cultivation vary considerably. Don Witton, a UK Plant Heritage national collection holder talks us t...

“This talk is rooted in both my own uncomfortable professional position and the problems I see all around me in designed landscapes. I think design is really important, I work as a planting designer,  I have taught landscape architecture students design for many years but,  I think design is give...

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems – the basics
SUDS is all about ensuring a natural flow of water through the environment, preventing flooding and pollution. It is fundamental to all good design work. Marcus outlines how SUDS works, addressing landscape architects and garden designers, with a pe...

Not all conifers are parkland giants, or little twee current buns for a rockery, in fact they are a brilliant foil for many other plants, and can bring much welcome structure and punctuation to our gardens and balconies, no matter how small. So park your preconceptions that they might be a plant ...

Shade is a complex multi-faceted garden phenomenon. Here we will look at the range of habitats covered by shade and other associated actors, such as tree roots, and go on to look at the different possibilities and challenges presented by these habitats, discovering an incredible range of plants a...

Julia Crawford has written the first book in English on the work of Mien Ruys, one of the greatest modernist garden and landscape designers of the 20th century and a founding figure in the history of landscape architecture in her native Netherlands. She deserves to be much better known.
With phot...

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. For those who are only familiar with the very commercial large-flowere...

Ornamental grasses really only took off in the 1990s, so we have been on a steep learning curve. Neil Lucas, of Knoll Gardens in Dorset, was a pioneer grower and there can be no-one better to bring us up to date. What have we learnt? About how to use grasses in gardens, about their growth over ti...

In the context of an urbanizing and warming world, the loss of ecosystems and species extinction are pressing concerns. To address these issues, it's crucial to explore the potential of evolving urban habitats. Claudia explores how urban habitats can be enhanced through more autonomous planting t...

Tom, a Dutch designer who is very much Piet Oudolf's protegé; since 2022 he has been making a new garden in the countryside.
“The landscape was completely hidden by tall hedges and butchered trees and there was an eyesore-causing dilapidated pool as well” he reports; now all is transformed and h...

Åsa Gregers-Ward is the Head Gardener at Beth Chatto Gardens. She introduces the garden and talks about how one of the most influential gardens of the last century isadapting and changing, reflecting new ideas in planting, new plants, a different generation of gardeners and climate change Åsa, wh...

Growing perennials in deep gravel mulches and low-substrate cultivation are very trendy now, but why not speak to someone who has been doing this for pretty much longer than anyone else? Since the 1990s in fact, with a trial running since 2016.
Steve, of the leading mid-Atlantic region perennial ...

“The best thing you can do for garden biodiversity is make a pond”. But how do we take maximum advantage of ponds to encourage wildlife in the garden? This presentation will address the siting, size, depth, construction, and design of ponds and margins, in ways that benefit
biodiversity. Choice o...

Tell the story behind your title. This is good place to include a brief synopsis, call out top-billed cast members, and perhaps include some positive press quotes.

Liz, is managing director of Nicholsons, a company that offers comprehensive environmental and ecological consultancy services, fully integrated garden and woodland design, and management and contracting services. By incorporating sustainability and the concept of 'natural capital' into their bus...

With Noel Kingsbury and John Kamp

The common assumption is that non-native plants, or strong spreaders, will always crowd out the natives, or slower-growing species within a garden or landscape space, but is this true? This presentation looks at how mapping growth over time can help us answer th...

Is it still relevant to grow your own food in an increasingly busy and complex world? Alison explains how she has grappled with this question and come to the conclusion that it’s more important than ever to hold onto skills of self sufficiency as an act of resistance and care and that productive ...

Planting with Perception: Using the Preference Matrix to Design Beautiful and Engaging GardensAre your plantings missing that spark between beauty, function, and emotional pull?

In this dynamic presentation with Jared Barnes, Ph.D., you’ll be introduced to the Kaplan Preference Matrix, a powerfu...

“I’m lucky enough to have a couple of greenhouses at home and as part of my job as Head Gardener at West Dean Gardens in West Sussex, I am responsible for 13 large, Victorian glass houses, and a plant collection that includes tropical plants, ferns, orchids, cacti, apricots, peaches, nectarines,...

Josh Sparkes talks about how 'natural farming' at Birch Farm has developed over the past 5 years, trying to grow food along with supporting bio diversity. He discusses homemade innoculants, Japanese inspired farming techniques, perennial crops, food forests and 'syntropic' agriculture.

Rosy Hardy talks about her trip to the extraordinary landscape in eastern South Africa, the Drakensberg Mountains (or Dragon’s Mountain). A dramatic and yet fragile landscape and in this webinar Rosy will share her experience and the botanical treasures that she found there.

Rosy Hardy is one of...

Alek, a gardener working in Mallorca introduces his techniques of pruning for plants in dry summer climates, but also highly relevant to anyone growing Mediterranean sub-shrubs or similar plants. These often present a problem, but Alek, who has worked in a number of Mediterranean locations is dev...

Flowers? Foliage? Bark? Amazing scent? Sculptural branching? Berries? Winter has it all! Stop whinging about the cold and get enjoying all that this season has to offer, with Jack Aldridge.

Jack is a staff member at Wisley, with an infectious enthusiasm for woody plants.

The basics of how to plan and set out the integrated perennial mixes which German practitioners have been doing for some time now. Colour, romantic and naturalistic - and designed to be low maintenance, basically creating an aesthetic ecosystem.

Hellebores - Jewels of the winter garden, with Ed Flint

Harry describes how the team manage the garden at Charleston in order to fulfil Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell’s vision for “sweet disorder”. The garden at Charleston, Sussex is an “artist’s garden”, a creation of the Bloomsbury Group, full of cottage garden romanticism and vibrancy, but one that ...

The undoubted Queen of Mixed Planting, Bettina Jaugstetter, talks about some of the design projects she has worked on over the last few years, mostly public, but some private gardens too. The locations are all in Germany or Switzerland and feature a variety of soil types and situations. This is a...

Traditional landscape maintenance seeks to preserve a predetermined, static plant composition. But in nature, plant compositions always change over time. In this session, garden designer Larry Weaner will show how the ecological processes that govern plants in the wild can be incorporated into de...

In a visually spectacular presentation, Cassian outlines 25 years of experience in managing plantings with large numbers of tulips and other bulbs. He shows how tulips need not necessarily be treated as one-year wonders but genuinely perennial plants - if the right varieties are chosen and certai...