Gardening through the Seasons

- Sustainable gardening practices including recycling household waste items. - Gardening to increase biodiversity and provide food and shelter for wildlife. - Budget-friendly ways to increase plant stock including sowing seeds, pricking out and growing on. - Reducing garden and household waste by composting. - Using free resources such as eggshells, cardboard to improve soil. - Designing spring themed planted containers. - Maintaining the Winter/Spring garden and preparing for the growing season. - Using wildflowers to increase biodiversity. - The biology of flowers and pollination. - Different flower shapes and which plants are best for pollinators. - Different plant types and how they can be combined to best effect in the garden.

Courses can fill fast, so please enrol early to avoid disappointment. Decisions on whether a course is to run are made two weeks prior to the start date - an email will be sent to you should there be changes to your course or if it is cancelled. Please check your inbox leading up to your course, including the junk folders. For anyone without an email account, our Admissions team will phone you instead.

For the first week of the course you will need to bring a valid form of identification; this includes passport, driving licence, debit/credit card, Birth Certificate or National Insurance card.

Please note - you should be 19 years old or over at 31st August 2024 prior to starting the course.

Before starting a course, the College is required to check you meet conditions relating to that funding, e.g. age, residency status within the UK/EEA, prior qualification level and employment status. In some circumstances (such as with online enrolments), these checks can only be completed after you have enrolled and paid.

If you are unable to pay in full for this course at the time of enrolment, and the course tuition fee is £300 or more, an instalment plan is available. If this is your preference, please do not enrol online but rather call the Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to enrol.

Once enrolled, Admissions will take the first instalment payment from you and pass on your details to the Finance team who will email you to set-up your payment plan. Please return a fully completed instalment plan to Finance as failure to do so could result in being withdrawn from your course.

The rules on fee reduction are complicated, we would encourage you to talk to our Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to discuss these options. You can find more information on our Fees and Bursaries page - search "Fees and Bursaries" at the top of the page.

As this is a non-accredited course, there is no formal qualification. To track your progress and achievement you will be required to complete a short document.