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Courses and
workshops
2020
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RHS Rosemoor
Introduction Contents
Courses and workshops 04
at a glance
Horticulture 08
Garden Craft 16
Welcome to our Adult Learning brochure 2020 in which we have a wide range of
courses and workshops to tempt you. It is divided into four sections, Horticulture,
Garden Craft, Creative and Photography.
Creative 21
In the Horticulture section, we have the essential or you may prefer one of our two-day Printmaking
skills of rose, apple and shrub pruning, as well as the sessions. Natural skincare and home-made remedies
seasonal What Now demos to help keep you up to date are also offered, and if plant dyes interest you, we have
with garden tasks. There are several workshops for three engaging tutors teaching Natural Plant-based
beginners and a new walk on colour-themed gardens, Inks for paper, Natural Plant Dyes for fabrics, and the
following the opening of our new Cool Garden to fascinating art of Indigo Dyeing and Shibori. Photography 36
complement the Hot Garden.
If your photography skills could do with some
Garden Craft covers a wide range of willow weaving inspiration, our ever popular tutor, Ross Hoddinott,
– useful items for the garden, baskets, trugs and returns to teach two one day workshops to improve
sculptures, our ever popular Christmas Wreaths and your close-up camera skills with flowers.
for the first time two wood working workshops. Further Information 37
All our courses and workshops offer the opportunity
The Creative section includes a wonderful selection of to learn alongside RHS horticulturists and experts in
art workshops in different styles and with a variety of their field in the very beautiful and unique setting of
passionate tutors. There are needle-felted creatures RHS Garden Rosemoor.
and landscapes, two outdoor mosaic workshops
for making stunning creations for your own garden, Please do book early to avoid disappointment and How to book Back cover
drawing days, paper peonies and dahlias and three new don’t forget our courses and workshops also make
workshops making cordials, flavoured gins, smoothies perfect and unusual presents for friends and family,
and vinegars. We are very lucky to welcome Chrissie and can be booked online. We hope you find a course
Juno-Mann from the Royal School of Needlework, to match your needs and look forward to welcoming
who offers two exquisite hand embroidery workshops, you to the garden in 2020.
How to find us Back cover
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Courses and workshops at a glance Courses and workshops at a glance
Courses and workshops Date Time Type Course Title New
Course
Page
No.
at a glance Wednesday 8 April
Friday 17 to Sunday
19 April
10.15am to 5.30pm
10.30am to 4.30pm
Garden Craft
Creative
Willow Sculpture - Birds and Beasties
Fresh Colours of Spring
NEW 17
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Date Time Type Course Title New Page Saturday 18 April 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Introduction to Polytunnels 11
Course No.
Thursday 23 April 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Introduction to Polytunnels 11
January
Saturday 25 April 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Needle-felted landscapes/trees NEW 22
Wednesday 8 January 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Rose Pruning 8
Saturday 25 to Sunday 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Mosaic Seabirds and Swallows (2 day) NEW 22
Tuesday 14 January 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture What Now in Winter? 8 26 April
Thursday 16 January 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Apple Pruning 9 May
Tuesday 21 January 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Apple Pruning 9 Friday 8 May 1.30pm to 5.00pm Creative Homemade Smoothies, Cordials, Gin NEW 23
Thursday 30 January 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Pruning/Training of Climbers 9 Friday 8 May 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture What Now in Summer? 11
February Saturday 9 May 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Perfect Paper Peonies 23
Saturday 1 February 10.30am to 4.30pm Horticulture Beginner's Gardening: Basics 1 9 Wednesday 13 May 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Drawing Day 24
Tuesday 4 February 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Winter Colour and Scent 9 Friday 15 May 10.15am to 5.30pm Garden Craft Willow Trug for Produce NEW 18
Thursday 6 February 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Rose Pruning 8 Saturday 16 May 10.15am to 5.30pm Garden Craft Willow Trug for Produce NEW 18
Wednesday 12 10.30am to 4pm Garden Craft Willow Weaving: Conical Plant Support 16 Friday 22 May 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Flower in a Vase Embroidery NEW 24
February
June
Friday 14 February 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Needlefelted Kinglet/Wren NEW 21
Friday 5 to Sunday 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Summer Flowers in Watercolours (3 day) 25
Thursday 20 February 10.30am to 4pm Garden Craft Willow Weaving: Low Hurdles 16 7 June
Monday 24 February 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Beginner's Vegetable Growing 10 Saturday 6 to Sunday 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Printmaking Weekend (2 day) 25
7 June
March
Saturday 20 June 10.30am to 4.30pm Photography Taking Better Garden Close-ups 36
Thursday 5 March 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture What Now in Spring? 10
Saturday 20 to 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Indigo Dyeing and Shibori (2 day) NEW 26
Friday 6 March 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Beginner's Vegetable Growing 10
Sunday 21 June
Saturday 7 March 10.30am to 4.30pm Horticulture Beginner's Gardening: Basics 2 10
Friday 26 June 10.15am to 5.30pm Garden Craft Willow Sculpture - Heron NEW 18
Monday 9 March 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Shrub Pruning 10
Saturday 27 June 10.15am to 5.30pm Garden Craft Willow Sculpture - Heron NEW 18
Tuesday 17 March 2.00pm to 4.00pm Horticulture Grafting for Beginners 11
July
Friday 20 March 10.15am to 4.30pm Garden Craft Zarzo Basket 17
Saturday 4 July 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture A Fully Productive Polytunnel 12
Saturday 21 March 10.15am to 4.30pm Garden Craft Zarzo Basket 17
Friday 10 July 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture A Fully Productive Polytunnel 12
April
Friday 10 July 8.15pm to 10.45pm Horticulture Bats at Rosemoor 12
Tuesday 7 April 10.15am to 5.30pm Garden Craft Willow Sculpture - Birds and Beasties NEW 17
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Courses and workshops at a glance Courses and workshops at a glance
Date Time Type Course Title New Page Date Time Type Course Title New Page
Course No. Course No.
Wednesday 15 July 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Ideas for Beautiful Containers 13 October
Friday 17 July 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Natural Skin Care NEW 26 Saturday 3 October 10.30am to 4.30pm Horticulture Beginner's Gardening: Basics 3 14
Tuesday 21 July 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Roses - growing and choosing NEW 13 Saturday 3 to Sunday 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Natural Dyeing with Plants NEW 32
4 October
Thursday 23 to Friday 10.30am to 4.30pm Horticulture Designing your Own Garden (2 day) 13
24 July Friday 9 October 1.30pm to 5pm Creative Apple Juice, Gin, Vodka and Fruit NEW 32
Vinegars
Friday 24 July 8.15pm to 10.45pm Horticulture Bats at Rosemoor 12
Saturday 10 October 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Handmade Botanical Gifts NEW 33
Tuesday 28 to 10.15am to 4.15pm Creative Bright Botanicals (3 day) NEW 27
Thursday 30 July Tuesday 13 October 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture What Now Autumn 15
Wednesday 29 July 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Drawing Day 27 Friday 16 to Sunday 18 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Autumn in Loose Watercolour (3 day) 33
October
August
Saturday 17 October 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Desirable Paper Dahlias NEW 34
Tuesday 4 August 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Colour-themed Gardens NEW 13
November
Thursday 6 to Friday 10.30am to 4.30pm Horticulture Designing your Own Garden (2 day) 13
7 August Friday 6 November 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Papermaking NEW 34
Monday 10 August 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Herbal Remedies for Home Use NEW 28 Saturday 7 November 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Pear Tree Embroidery NEW 35
Tuesday 18 August 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Scented Plants to lift your Garden 14 Saturday 7 November 10.30am to 4.30pm Garden Craft Wooden Toys from the Hedgerow NEW 19
Thursday 20 August 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Natural Plant based Inks for Paper NEW 28 Tuesday 10 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Growing Vegetables in Winter NEW 15
November
Friday 21 August 1.30pm to 5pm Creative Homemade Fruit and Herb Cordials NEW 29
Wednesday 18 10.15am to Garden Craft Willow Sculpture - Christmas Reindeer 20
Wednesday 26 to 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Printmaking (2 day) 29 November 4.30pm
Thursday 27 August
December
September
Saturday 5 December 10.15am to Garden Craft Willow Sculpture - Christmas Reindeer 20
Friday 4 September 10.30am to 4.30pm Photography Mastering Flower Photography 36 4.30pm
Saturday 5 September 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Needle-felted sitting fox NEW 30 Thursday 10 11am to 1pm Horticulture Explore Rosemoor's Woodlands 15
December
Saturday 5 September 10.30am to 4.30pm Garden Craft Introduction to Wood Whittling NEW 19
Tuesday 8 September 11am to 12.30pm Horticulture Glorious Grasses for your Garden 14
Wednesday 9 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Drawing Day 30
September
Saturday 12 to Sunday 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Mosaic Owls and Elephants NEW 31
13 September
Friday 18 to Sunday 20 10.30am to 4.30pm Creative Autumn Treasures from the Gardens 31
September (3 day)
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Horticulture Horticulture
Apple Pruning Beginner’s Gardening: Basics 1
Thursday 16 January or Saturday 1 February 10.30am to 4.30pm
Tuesday 21 January 11am to 12.30pm Tutor: Ian Smith (Bicton College tutor)
Tutor: Peter Adams (RHS team) The fundamentals of gardening with the opportunity
Come and unravel the mysteries of apple pruning at to ask as many questions as you need. A seasonal look
this practical demonstration. We will be looking at around the garden learning what needs to be done at
the formative pruning of young apple trees through this time of year and how you can apply this to your
to established trees that have been maintained. We own garden at home. Covering plant identification,
will also discuss summer pruning, and see how it is pruning and seed sowing. The first of three day
used to maintain our trained apples, (i.e. cordons, courses following the seasonal changes at Rosemoor
espaliers and fans), and compare it to the winter and how to make the most of your own garden
pruning of our traditional orchard, which is what we throughout the year. Pick and choose which season
will be concentrating on during this demonstration. interests you the most, or attend them all.
This event will take place outside so please come Fee: RHS Members £42 | Non-RHS Members £54
prepared with boots and warm clothing. Skill level: Beginner
Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28 Venue: Learning Centre and Garden
Skill level: General/Beginner Maximum 12 places
Venue: Garden
Maximum 15 places per session
Winter Colour and Scent
Tuesday 4 February 11am to 12.30pm
Tutor: James Shepherd (RHS Team)
Winter is often considered to be a closed season
Horticulture in the garden, but this definitely need not be the
case. Colourful and fragrant flowers, striking barks
and stems and a wide variety of evergreen plants all
help to brighten up the garden and provide a wealth
Rose Pruning What Now in Winter? of interest throughout the winter. On this walk we
Wednesday 8 January or Tuesday 14 January 11am to 12.30pm will look at a good selection of plants, all of which are
Thursday 6 February 11am to 12.30pm Tutor: Helen Round star performers during the winter months, and also
Tutor: Philip Scott (RHS team) Are you new to gardening and unsure exactly
Pruning/Training of Climbers discuss how to care for them. A comprehensive plant
This comprehensive demonstration will cover what you should be doing when, or are you a keen Thursday 30 January 11am to 12.30pm list will be provided for participants.
the pruning and training of all roses, from gardener wanting tips on your timings? Let the Tutor: Jonathan Hutchinson (RHS Team) Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28
climbers through to ramblers, shrubs and RHS experts help you through the gardening year Climbers and wall shrubs are an essential part of Skill level: Beginner/General
modern varieties. We will also look at nutrition providing a whistle-stop tour of techniques, tips, our garden but do need some regular, or occasional Venue: Garden
and disease control, and offer some handy tips tricks and advice on seasonal tasks so that you know maintenance to get them to grow and flower at their Maximum 15 places
on establishing roses. This demonstration will what you could be doing when. Sessions will vary in best. You will see a wide range on this walk which may
take place outside so please come prepared format including talks, practical demonstrations and give you some ideas for enhancing your own garden.
with boots and warm clothing. walks around the garden at Rosemoor. Wisteria and Clematis are great garden favourites
Fee: RHS Members £16 Non-RHS Members £28 Winter topics covered - mulching, preparing for but are often pruned incorrectly, so find out how the
Skill level: General/Beginner the year ahead, renovation pruning of shrubs, rose experts do it to ensure your arches and pergolas are
Venue: Garden pruning, plus other topics of seasonal interest. filled with blossom. Roses will not be covered.
Maximum 12 places per session Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28 Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28
Skill level: General/Beginner Skill level: General/Beginner
Venue: Garden Venue: Garden
Maximum 15 places Maximum 12 places
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Horticulture Horticulture
what you could be doing when. Sessions will vary
in format including talks, practical demonstrations
and walks around the garden.
Spring topics covered - dividing and planting
herbaceous perennials, spring shrub pruning,
cutting back of ornamental grasses, plus other
topics of seasonal interest.
Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28
Skill level: General/Beginner
Venue: Garden
Maximum 15 places
Beginner’s Gardening – Basics 2
Saturday 7 March 10.30am to 4.30pm
Tutor: Ian Smith (Bicton College tutor)
the growing space throughout the season. There is
A seasonal look around the garden learning what Grafting for Beginners also a Fully Productive Polytunnel talk on Saturday 4
needs to be done at this time of year and how you can
apply this to your own garden at home. Covering basic Tuesday 17 March 2.00 to 4.00pm July, or Friday 10 July.
soil science, pruning and seed sowing. The second of Tutor: Jim Arbury (RHS Wisley Fruit and Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28
three day courses following the seasonal changes at Trials Specialist)
Beginner’s Vegetable Growing Skill level: General/Beginner
Rosemoor and how to make the most of your own Learn the art of grafting from RHS Wisley’s Fruit Venue: Allotments Polytunnel
Monday 24 February or garden throughout the year. Pick and choose which Garden expert. Jim will explain the theory behind Maximum 12 places
Friday 6 March 11am to 12.30pm season interests you the most, or attend them all. the skill and demonstrate each stage before you
Tutor: Edibles Team Fee: RHS Members £42 | Non-RHS Members £54 try the technique yourself. Each attendee will be What Now in Summer?
This session will introduce complete beginners to Skill level: Beginner able to graft two apple varieties onto dwarfing
vegetable growing and the exciting world of grow Venue: Learning Centre and Garden rootstocks and take them away to grow at home. This Friday 8 May 11am to 12.30pm
your own, looking at basic planning and needs for a Maximum 12 places method can be used to produce fruit trees and many Tutor: Sally Newbrook (RHS Team)
successful vegetable garden. The introduction will ornamentals. The after-care needed to grow the tree Are you new to gardening and unsure exactly
cover how to propagate your own vegetable plants, on will also be explained. what you should be doing when, or are you a keen
Shrub Pruning
how to grow an easy range of crops, and give you Fee per single session: RHS Members £30 | gardener wanting tips on your timings? Let the
plenty of top tips for success along the way. Monday 9 March 11am to 12.30pm Non-RHS Members £42 RHS experts help you through the gardening year
Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28 Tutor: Jonathan Hutchinson (RHS Team) Skill level: General/Beginner providing a whistle-stop tour of techniques, tips,
Skill level: Beginner Pruning is for many a complicated subject, not Venue: Small Garden Room tricks and advice on seasonal tasks so that you know
Venue: Garden knowing when or why you are meant to be carrying Maximum 10 places what you could be doing when. Sessions will vary in
Maximum 15 places out the task. This demonstration will look at a wide format including talks, practical demonstrations and
variety of plants, outlining the different reasons walks around the garden.
Introduction to Polytunnels
for pruning, how we can trick nature to get better Summer topics covered - Plantings for summer
What Now in Spring? displays within our garden and look at annual and Saturday 18 April or Thursday 23 April display, growing tomatoes and cucumbers under
Thursday 5 March 11am to 12.30pm rejuvenation pruning techniques, and the best tools 11am to 12.30pm glass, staking herbaceous perennials, planting
Tutor: Dylan Welsby (RHS team) for the job. At the end, you will feel more confident Tutor: Peter Adams (RHS Team) seasonal containers, plus other topics of seasonal
Are you new to gardening and unsure exactly to go home and tame your ‘jungle’ and get the best In this introduction, Peter will look at the features interest.
what you should be doing when, or are you a keen display possible from your plants. of a polytunnel structure as well as its construction Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28
gardener wanting tips on your timings? Let the Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28 and siting, to help you make the best decisions when Skill level: General/Beginner
RHS experts help you through the gardening year Skill level: General/Beginner choosing one. He will show you where and how to Venue: Garden
providing a whistle-stop tour of techniques, tips, Venue: Garden begin growing in the tunnel, give suggestions for Maximum 15 places
tricks and advice on seasonal tasks so that you know Maximum 15 places which crops to grow and explain how to manage
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Horticulture Horticulture
Ideas for Beautiful Containers very practical 2-day workshop will include a walk to
show you design ideas and planting combinations,
Wednesday 15 July 11am to 12.30pm
seeing how they can be adapted to your own
Tutor: Susie Hauxwell (RHS Team) garden. You will spend time learning how to survey
Whether you have a large, or small garden, beautifully your garden area, measure small, marked out
planted containers are essential to enhance your example gardens, and arrange a mixture of real
front door and garden, and with careful planting you potted plants, shrubs, trees and garden features in a
can have a selection to give you colour and interest variety of planting designs. Please bring a notepad,
all year round. Susie will help you with plant choice, pen and camera if you wish and photographs of
the right composts to use and how to make sure the your own garden.
plants are maintained in tip-top condition. Fee: RHS Members £74 | Non-RHS Members £98
Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28 Skill level: Beginner
Skill level: General/Beginner Venue: Learning Centre Oak and Garden
Venue: Garden Maximum 12 places
Maximum 15 places
Roses – growing and choosing
Tuesday 21 July 11am to 12.30pm
Tutor: James Shepherd (RHS Team)
Roses are deservedly one of the most popular garden
plants, providing a stunning display throughout the
A Fully Productive Polytunnel populations all over the county, leads walks, talks and
summer months. This walk will provide you with
surveys, and rehabilitates injured bats.
Saturday 4 July or Friday 10 July expert advice on how to choose suitable roses for
11am to 12.30pm The event will start with a talk about bats, the bat your garden; how you can use roses in your garden;
year, local species and their ecology, attendees can how and when to plant them so they establish
Tutor: Peter Adams (RHS Team)
also learn how to use a bat detector. A garden walk successfully; and what ongoing maintenance is
In this follow-up talk, Peter will look more closely at will initially lead to Lady Anne’s house for sunset,
crop selection and particular varieties that do well in required, including feeding, deadheading and pest
where there is a roost and you can watch the bats and disease control. Please note that although the
the polytunnel environment. He will also cover emerge, before heading into the formal gardens
management techniques for the growing space through walk will include a discussion of pruning, because of
to see which bats can be found. Sarah will also talk the time of year it will not be possible to demonstrate
the summer, and how to plan what to grow into the
autumn and winter months. There is also an introductory
about the kind of planting which is good for bats. pruning techniques. Colour-Themed Gardens
Fee: RHS Members £22 | Non-RHS Members £34 Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28 Tuesday 4 August 11am - 12.30pm
talk on Saturday 18 April, or Thursday 23 April.
Skill level: General/Beginner Skill level: General/Beginner
Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28 Tutor: Richard Wilson (RHS Team)
Venue: Learning Centre Douglas and Garden Venue: Garden
Skill level: General/Beginner Maximum 16 places Join Richard on this exploration of the two colour
Venue: Allotments Polytunnel Maximum 15 places themed gardens here at Rosemoor. The Hot Garden
Maximum 12 places with its fiery tones compared with our newest
Designing your own Garden garden, The Cool Garden's gentle, calm hues. Enjoy
Bats at Rosemoor (2 day) the wider, inside story of the gardens and plants,
their contributions, maintenance and challenges.
Friday 10 July or Friday 24 July Thursday 23 to Friday 24 July, or Take away inspiration and planting ideas to perhaps
8.15pm to 10.45pm Thursday 6 to Friday 7 August include in your own plot or merely enjoy the
Tutor: Sarah Butcher (Devon Bat Group) 10.30am to 4.30pm juxtaposition of the two.
Sarah returns to Rosemoor, having been interested Tutor: Sheila Dearing (RHS Curatorial Team), Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28
in bats for over seven years, since going on a bat Ian Smith (Bicton College Tutor) Skill level: General/Beginner
walk, trying out a bat detector for the first time and Do you have a new garden, or want to change your Venue: Garden
buying her own three days later. She now monitors bat existing one but have no idea where to begin? This Maximum 15 places
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Horticulture Horticulture
What Now in Autumn?
Tuesday 13 October 11am to 12.30pm
Tutor: David Perry (RHS Team)
Are you new to gardening and unsure exactly
what you should be doing when, or are you a keen
gardener wanting tips on your timings? Let the
RHS experts help you through the gardening year
providing a whistle-stop tour of techniques, tips,
tricks and advice on seasonal tasks so that you know
what you could be doing when. Sessions will vary in
format including talks, practical demonstrations and
walks around the garden.
Autumn topics covered - planting trees and shrubs,
dividing herbaceous perennials, planting bulbs,
digging, protecting tender perennials and autumn
lawn renovation.
Fee per single session: RHS Members £16 |
Non-RHS Members £28
Skill level: General/Beginner
Venue: Garden
Maximum 15 places
free plants to grow. At RHS Rosemoor we have one of
Scented Plants to lift the best collections in the country; this walk and talk Growing Vegetables in Winter
your Garden will inspire you with suggestions and tips for growing
the best ones for your own garden.
Tuesday 10 November 11am to 12.30pm
Tuesday 18 August 11am to 12.30pm
Tutor: Miriam Petry (RHS Team)
Tutor: Sally Newbrook (RHS Team) Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28
As the main growing season in the Fruit and
Beautiful scents and tactile foliage can create a Skill level: General/Beginner
Vegetable Garden starts to wind down, join Miriam
Explore Rosemoor’s
Venue: Garden
wonderful atmosphere and help to attract a wider
Maximum 15 places to find out how to have a bountiful harvest from Woodlands
range of pollinators. They can be used to enhance your plot throughout winter. Whether you are lucky
any size garden and there is a vast array, so Sally will Thursday 10 December 11am to 12.30pm
enough to call a glasshouse or poly tunnel your own Tutor: Rod Knight (RHS Team)
lead you round some of her favourites and give you Beginner’s Gardening: Basics 3 or want to get the most out of your allotment plot
tips about where to place them in your garden to throughout the colder months come along to find At Rosemoor, we are fortunate to be surrounded by a
Saturday 3 October 10.30m to 4.30pm
appreciate them fully. out what varieties to choose to carry the display stunning backdrop of trees within our wooded valley.
Tutor: Ian Smith (Bicton College Tutor) We own and manage over 120 acres of woodland, the
Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28 right through the season. Learn how to plan and lay
Skill level: General/Beginner A seasonal look around the garden learning what majority of which is not yet open to our visitors. This
out your garden to incorporate winter veg and it will
Venue: Garden needs to be done at this time of year and how you walk will highlight the work we are doing to transform
surprise you not only how many things you’ll be able
Maximum 15 places can apply this to your own garden at home. Covering and maintain our diverse woodland plantings across
to grow but also how decorative your garden will look
seed collecting and propagation. The last of three day the site - be prepared for a long walk to see some of
when that first frost sparkles on it.
courses following the seasonal changes at Rosemoor these exciting areas. We will look at relevant pest and
Glorious Grasses and how to make the most of your own garden Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28 disease issues, suitable trees and plants and you will
for your Garden throughout the year. Pick and choose which season Skill level: General/Beginner gain an insight into the maintenance that is needed.
interests you the most, or attend them all. Venue: Garden
Tuesday 8 September 11am to 12.30pm Maximum 15 places Fee: RHS Members £16 | Non-RHS Members £28
Tutor: Susie Hauxwell (RHS Team) Fee: RHS Members £42 | Non-RHS Members £54 Skill level: General/Beginner
Skill level: Beginner Venue: Woodland
Grasses bring a beautiful, refined elegance to the Venue: Learning Centre Douglas and Garden Maximum 15 places
garden and yet are some of the easiest and trouble Maximum 12 places
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Garden Craft Garden Craft
Willow Birds and Beasties
Tuesday 7 or Wednesday 8 April
10.15am to 5.30pm
Tutor: Sarah Webb
Sarah Webb is a basket maker and contemporary
willow artist, and has run several deservedly
popular willow sculpture workshops at Rosemoor.
Willow Sculpture is a craft that is accessible
to all and requires very little skill level to begin
with. This course has been designed to give each
student the opportunity of making whatever
they fancy, whether that be a Hare, Pheasant,
Badger, Pig, Duck…… this in turn allows the tutor
to demonstrate lots of different methods of
construction which the whole group can learn
from, giving everyone a better understanding
of how each individual creature is created.
Fee: RHS Members £85 | Non-RHS Members £97
Skill level: General/Beginner
Venue: Lecture Hall
Maximum 10 places
Garden Craft Willow Zarzo Basket
Friday 20 or Saturday 21 March
Willow Conical Plant Support Willow Low Hurdles 10.15am to 4.30pm
Wednesday 12 February 10.30am to 4.00pm Thursday 20 February 10.30am to 4.00pm Tutor: Sarah le Breton
Tutor: Peter Earl Tutor: Peter Earl Sarah is passionate about willow basketmaking
Learn how to make a conical plant support to These attractive hurdles have been used for many and in this workshop she will help you make a
enhance your garden plants and provide a focal years to edge our potager beds and they last several striking round or rectangular Zarzo basket in a
point in your border for several years. Peter years, providing a sturdy but very natural looking day – this is a recently developed basketry style
will take you through all the steps to create this edge. In your own garden, you might prefer them to from Denmark, and you will weave your very own
popular and extremely sturdy support using edge flower borders and provide a little support to Zarzo using willow of assorted colours. These
natural willow, some materials from Rosemoor. lower growing plants. Peter will help you to create this baskets are perfect for beginners but due to
Please make sure you have room in your car for popular and extremely sturdy path or border edging the way they are created you do need to have a
your creation which will be just over 6ft (2m) tall. using natural willow, some materials from Rosemoor. decent level of fitness! Sarah is passionate about
Please make sure you have room in your car for your willow sculpting since starting her own business
Fee: RHS Members £57 | Non-RHS Members £69 in 2006.
Skill level: General/Beginner creation which will be around 5ft (1.75m) long.
Venue: Lecture Hall Fee: RHS Members £57 | Non-RHS Members £69 Fee: RHS Members £92 | Non-RHS Members £104
Maximum 12 places Skill level: General/Beginner Skill level: General/Beginner
Venue: Garden Room Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Maximum 12 places Maximum 8 places
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Garden Craft Garden Craft
Willow Heron
Friday 26 or Saturday 27 June
10.15am to 5.30pm
Tutor: Sarah Webb
Sarah Webb is a basket maker and contemporary
willow artist, and has run several deservedly popular
willow sculpture workshops at Rosemoor.
This course is designed for anyone who would like to
make a beautiful stately Heron for the garden. Birds
are one of the easiest shapes to make making this the
perfect course for the complete beginner. It is also an
opportunity for you to hone skills already acquired
and learn the process of making birds that can be
adapted to create many other types of bird.
Fee: RHS Members £85 | Non-RHS Members £97
Skill level: General/Beginner
Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Maximum 10 places
Willow Trug for Produce
Friday 15 or Saturday 16 May
10.15am to 5.30pm
Tutor: Sarah le Breton
Exclusively created for the RHS, make this beautiful
and highly practical willow trug, perfect for carrying
your glut of fruit and veg! Sarah will inspire you with
tales about this craft form and what our rich willow
basket-making heritage has to offer.
This day is suitable for both beginners and those
with willow weaving experience. All materials will be Introduction to This workshop aims to develop the timeless skills of
supplied, including locally sourced willow, but please carving sticks and branches with a single knife. You will
bring your favourite secateurs and wear old and
Wood Whittling find out how to choose, use and sharpen a whittling
comfortable clothing. Saturday 5 September 10.30am to 4.30pm knife and gain knife skills and confidence with a range
Willow weaving is a very physical activity, so please Tutor: Richard Irvine of techniques. You will have the chance to make several
assess your own suitability at the time of booking Richard has been doodling with a whittling knife for small items such as camp and kitchen gadgets, whistles
and on the date of your course. Should you have any 25 years, enjoying the process of making things as and small carvings or just to doodle in wood as you
mobility, accessibility or physical health issues do much as the finished products, and believes that wish. Those who wish to extend their skills may be
please contact us prior to booking your place. practical craft making is not only fun but can also interested in Wooden Toys from the Hedgerow on 7th
benefit our mental health and well-being. He is a full November.
Fee: RHS Members £92 | Non-RHS Members £104
Skill level: General/Beginner time outdoor educator and the author of the recent Fee: RHS Members £70 | Non-RHS Members £82
Venue: Learning Centre Oak best-selling book 'Forest Craft - a child's guide to Skill level: General/Beginner
Maximum 8 places whittling in the woodland'. Venue: Learning Centre Douglas
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Maximum 10 places Fresh Colours of Spring
Wooden Toys Friday 17 to Sunday 19 April
from the Hedgerow 10.30am to 4.30pm
Tutor: Ros Franklin
Saturday 7 November 10.30am to 4.30pm
Tutor: Richard Irvine A three-day botanical painting workshop working
in watercolour with RHS Gold medalist Ros Franklin
Richard has been doodling with a whittling knife for FLS, SBA(Fellow), FEPFS. Ros has paintings included
25 years, enjoying the process of making things as in the RHS Lindley Library, the Royal Botanic Garden
much as the finished products, and believes that Sydney, Australia, and the Eden Project Florilegium
practical craft making is not only fun but can also archives in Cornwall. She has been teaching for
benefit our mental health and well-being. He is a full twelve years, and will be sharing her knowledge to
time outdoor educator and the author of the recent explore Spring colours and textures, using seasonal
best-selling book 'Forest Craft - a child's guide to flowers and buds from the gardens at Rosemoor.
whittling in the woodland'.
Students will be shown how to create three-
Folk crafts used to be passed down through the dimensional form by building up transparent layers
generations and many children were able to make to capture the Fresh colours of Spring; together
their own toys with a pocket knife and wood from the with fine detail to create different textures, using
hedgerow. In this workshop, we will be using a few different watercolour techniques. Ros is offering
simple hand tools to make a range of fun items from the opportunity to work either on paper, or vellum.
Creative
wood collected from local hedgerows. This is suitable (Vellum will be available to purchase directly from
for beginners as well as being a perfect next step for Ros). Suitable for all abilities.
those who completed the introduction to whittling in
September. Fee: RHS Members £170 | Non-RHS Members £206
Skill level: General/Beginners/Improvers
Fee: RHS Members £70 | Non-RHS Members £82 Needle-felted Kinglet Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Skill level: General/Beginner Friday 14 February 10.30am to 4.30pm Maximum 12 places
Venue: Learning Centre Douglas Tutor: Tracey Benton
Maximum 10 places
Needle felting is a wonderfully simple technique
whereby fibre is shaped and compressed with the
Willow Christmas Reindeer hand and 'fixed' in place using barbed needles which
Wednesday 18 November or act like hooks, interlocking the fibres together and
Saturday 5 December 10.15am – 4.30pm forming a mass. This project is suitable for people
Tutor: Sarah Webb with no felting experience.
Sarah Webb is a basket maker and contemporary You'll be exploring both wet felting and needle felting
willow artist, and will help you get into the Christmas in this workshop to make one of Benton's Menagerie's
spirit as you make a wonderful seasonal sculpture. signature Kinglet sculptures. A Kinglet is another name
Come and spend a festive fun day making your very for a wren based on the Aesops fable 'King of the
own willow reindeer. During this course you will Birds' where a tiny wren outwitted an Eagle to claim
be guided through the process needed to make the crown. We will be wet felting the base and needle
a reindeer with antlers, red noses are however felting the wren using a range of wools. Please bring a
optional. Be warned though willow sculpture is small goblet, candlestick or liqueur glass on which to
addictive, soon you may have to home a whole herd, mount your finished sculpture. All other materials
or give them away as very desirable gifts. are provided, and equipment is on loan.
Fee: RHS Members £96 | Non-RHS Members £108 Fee: RHS Members £57 | Non-RHS Members £69
Skill level: General/Beginner Skill level: General/Beginners/Improvers
Venue: Learning Centre Oak Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Maximum 8 places Maximum 10 places
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Needle-felted Landscapes
Saturday 25 April 10.30am to 4.30pm
Tutor: Joan Prowse
Joan is an established needle felting tutor
having taught at many shows and educational
establishments and will teach you the techniques of
needle felting flat work to create a mini treescape
and a seascape, including the addition of mixed
media. There will be flexibility within the workshop to
create your own composition if you wish to do so. All
materials are included for the set pieces, along with
an opportunity to try using the different tools and
equipment available. You will leave with your finished
pieces and the knowledge and confidence to go on Mosaic Seabirds
to create more of your own work. Joan will also bring
along a pop up shop of supplies and tools for those
and Swallows
who wish to purchase. Saturday 25 to Sunday 26 April
Fee: RHS Members £65 | Non-RHS Members £77 10.30am to 4.30pm
Skill level: General/Beginners/Improvers Tutor: Amanda Anderson
Venue: Learning Centre Douglas Amanda Anderson is an international selling mosaic Homemade Smoothies, and relaxing, this skill doesn’t require a great outlay
Maximum 20 places artist who exhibits widely. She has over twenty- five of time or money to begin with, and Wendy will
years’ experience in mosaic-making after originally
Cordials, Gin teach you how to make a beautiful posy of peonies
studying sculpture at Liverpool’s School of Art. Friday 8 May 1.30pm to 5.00pm to take home. This workshop will give you the skill
Amanda’s joyful mosaics are instantly recognisable Tutor: Sally Harvey (Country Cordials) and confidence to produce some colourful, beautiful
for their bold colours and whimsical designs of birds Sally is a once-upon-a-time food writer and recipe and highly sought-after gifts which are inexpensive
and other creatures. developer, then smallholder, teacher and since 2012 to make but wonderful to receive. You can also
Spend a weekend making a wall based mosaic. Design “head cook and bottle washer” at Cornish Country buy other flower-making kits from Wendy in the
and cut a base from a foam and fibreglass sheet and Cordials, making a range of fresh-tasting fruit drinks workshop.
construct the mosaic using brightly coloured ceramic without any artificial sweeteners, colours, flavours or Fee: RHS Members £55 | Non-RHS Members £67
pieces, stained glass and recycled china. Finish off preservatives. She will help you test your taste-buds Skill level: General/Beginner
with a weather proof grout and the mosaic will be with a range of non-alcoholic drinks, from simple fruit Venue: Learning Centre Oak
suitable for inside or out. All tools and materials are infusions and cold-brew coffee, to fruit and vegetable Maximum 10 places
provided. smoothies, finishing the session with your own
Fee: RHS Members £160 | Non-RHS Members £184 bespoke “bath tub” gin, full of the flavours of your
Skill level: General/Beginners favourite tipple.
Venue: Learning Centre Oak Fee: RHS Members £50 | Non-RHS Members £62
Maximum 10 places Skill level: General/Beginner
Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Maximum 8 places
Perfect Paper Peonies
Saturday 9 May 10.30am to 4.30pm
Tutor: Wendy Morray-Jones
Wendy is a paper flower artist and has been
practising her art for over 20 years. Engrossing
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Flower in a Vase Printmaking Weekend
Friday 22 May 10.30am to 4.30pm Saturday 6 to Sunday 7 June
Tutor: Chrissie Juno-Mann 10.30am to 4.30pm
Join Chrissie Juno-Mann from the Royal School Tutor: Polly Pocock
of Needlework for a day of Jacobean Crewelwork After an introduction to the aims of the course you
hand embroidery. The 'Flower in a Vase' design was will start by drawing and gathering source material
inspired by embroidery on an 18th century pocket. from the gardens, which is used to explore a variety
The simple stylised flowers and the symmetry of of monoprint techniques. The images created lead
design create an appealing image that is bright, pretty into lino cuts which will embrace the use of several
and great fun to stitch. This piece includes a range of colours and produce a short edition of prints. If
stitches including stem, split, whipped wheel, French the weather is bad there is a good indoor space
knots and trellis. The day is suitable for a confident available. All materials and equipment are provided
beginner right through to someone who wants to but an old shirt or apron would be useful, beginners
enjoy a day of embroidery. and experienced are most welcome. Polly is an
Fee: RHS Members £90 | Non-RHS Members £102 experienced printmaker artist and teacher, who
Skill level: General/Beginner/Experienced jointly runs Quay Drawing to encourage people
Venue: Learning Centre Oak to improve their observational skills and thereby
Maximum 12 places improve their artwork.
Drawing Day Fee: RHS Members £80 | Non-RHS Members £104
Wednesday 13 May Skill level: General/Beginners/Improvers
10.30am to 4.30pm Venue: Learning Centre Douglas
Tutor: Peter Newell Maximum 12 places
After an introduction to the aims of the day you
will start working directly outdoors in the garden. Summer Flowers in
Seated on comfortable chairs and using large clip
boards you will undertake a series of studies with
Watercolours
expert guidance from your tutor. The tuition will Friday 5 to Sunday 7 June
take you through a variety of drawing materials and 10.30am to 4.30pm
techniques enabling you to explore the qualities Tutor: Laura Silburn
of each medium and how it relates to the subject Join three-times RHS Gold medal artist Laura
matter you are looking at. Once initial studies have Silburn for three days enjoying the beautiful garden
been made, you will progress to a final drawing using flowers of RHS Rosemoor. You will learn the drawing
watercolour wash. All materials and equipment are and painting techniques necessary to produce a
provided, but please bring clothing for all weathers finished piece of botanical art in watercolour. Laura
and good walking shoes, beginners and experienced will demonstrate and explain the step-by-step
are most welcome. If the weather makes it impossible process used by botanical artists to record and
to work outdoors there is a good indoor space. showcase a specimen with particular emphasis on
Peter is a popular local artist and teacher, who jointly celebrating the horticultural varieties we love in
runs Quay Drawing to encourage people to improve our gardens. Paying special attention to accurate
their observational skills and thereby improve their drawing of flowers and colour-matching our
artwork. During the day he will also introduce the use cultivars, the course is suitable for all levels
of sketchbooks in drawing. including absolute beginners.
Fee: RHS Members £55 | Non-RHS Members £67 Fee: RHS Members £160 | Non-RHS Members £196
Skill level: General/Beginner/Experienced Skill level: Beginers/General/Improvers
Venue: Wisteria Meeting Room and Garden Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Maximum 10 places Maximum 12 places
24 25Creative Creative
Natural Skin Care Drawing Day
Friday 17 July 10.30am to 4.30pm Wednesday 29 July 10.30am to 4.30pm
Tutor: Laura Hoy Tutor: Peter Newell
Laura Hoy is an Essential Oil Consultant and After an introduction to the aims of the day you
completed her training in Holistic Aromatherapy will start working directly outdoors in the garden.
& Essential Oil Science with Neal’s Yard Remedies Seated on comfortable chairs and using large clip
in 2009. She will teach you an appreciation for the boards you will undertake a series of studies with
natural ingredients, understanding where they come expert guidance from your tutor. The tuition will
from and their precious qualities can inspire us to take you through a variety of drawing materials and
bring a whole new level of cherishing to our everyday techniques enabling you to explore the qualities
skin care rituals. of each medium and how it relates to the subject
You will be introduced to a range of botanical matter you are looking at. Once initial studies have
ingredients to use in mixing and making various been made, you will progress to a final drawing using
beauty products for you to take home. Learn more watercolour wash. All materials and equipment are
about a range of essential oils, their incredible scents, provided, but please bring clothing for all weathers
as well as their health and wellbeing properties. You and good walking shoes, beginners and experienced
will feel confident to choose your own blends, to are most welcome. If the weather makes it impossible
enrich the already nourishing base products we will Bright Botanicals to work outdoors there is a good indoor space.
put together including cleansing balm/oil, face mask, Tuesday 28 to Thursday 30 July Peter is a popular local artist and teacher, who jointly
face oil and face cream. 10.15am to 4.15pm runs Quay Drawing to encourage people to improve
The ingredients used will be of the highest quality and Tutor: Angeline de Meester their observational skills and thereby improve their
organic where possible. All materials are provided, artwork. During the day he will also introduce the use
Angeline returns to Rosemoor for her third course. of sketchbooks in drawing.
and you may like to bring your own notebook and a She is an award winning botanical artist, and her work
pen. Please let Laura know if you have any allergies, is included in international collections including the Fee: RHS Members £55 | Non-RHS Members £67
especially those pertaining to the skin, if you are Dr Sherwood Gallery at Kew, The RHS Lindley Library Skill level: General/Beginner/Experienced
pregnant, have epilepsy or cardiac fibrillation (some and The Hunt Institute in America. She is a regular Venue: Wisteria Meeting Room and Garden
essential oils will be avoided in these instances). tutor at Capel Manor College in Regents Park and a Maximum 10 places
Fee: RHS Members £85 | Non-RHS Members £97 member of the Society of Botanical Artists. Trained
Skill level: General/Beginners also as a jewellery designer her passion is for studying
Venue: Learning Centre Oak and portraying the structure and intricacies of
Indigo Dyeing and Shibori Maximum 15 places botanical subjects in watercolour both for illustration
Saturday 20 to Sunday 21 June and art purposes.
10.30am to 4.30pm This botanical watercolour workshop will look at
Tutor: Vivien Prideaux painting the vivid midsummer colours found in plants
Spend an enthralling weekend learning about growing in the Hot Garden at Rosemoor at this time of
and experimenting with the glorious blue dyes of year. Time will be taken to understand the use of colour
natural indigo. There will be plenty of hands-on in watercolour painting and how to achieve 3D form
experience learning how to make and keep a natural on paper while retaining a sense of the correct colour
indigo vat, and you will learn the fascinating and of the chosen plant. There will be demonstrations and
addictive processes of Shibori, the inventive art of discussion of techniques and approach throughout the
Japanese shape-resist dyeing and have a creative, course. It will be useful to have some prior drawing and
fun experience with colour and cloth. watercolour experience.
Fee: RHS Members £118 | Non-RHS Members £142 Fee: RHS Members £164 | Non-RHS Members £200
Skill level: General/Beginners/Improvers Skill level: Improvers
Venue: Learning Centre Douglas Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Maximum 16 places Maximum 12 places
26 27Creative Creative
Fee: RHS Members £95 | Non-RHS Members £107 Printmaking
Skill level: General/Beginner
Wednesday 26 to Thursday 27 August
Venue: Learning Centre Oak
10.30am to 4.30pm
Maximum 20 places
Tutor: Pete Newell
After an introduction to the aims of the course you
Natural Plant-based Inks will start by drawing and gathering source material
Thursday 20 August 10.30am to 4.30pm from the gardens, which is used to explore a variety
Tutor: Flora Arbuthnott of monoprint techniques. The images created lead
Learn how to identify and harvest wild and cultivated into lino cuts which will embrace the use of several
plants to make inks for paper. Discover how to colours and produce a short edition of prints. If
source, create and use modifiers - metals, acids, and the weather is bad there is a good indoor space
alkalis that you can use to create a chemical reaction, available. All materials and equipment, including
transforming and shifting colours on the page. a portable press are provided but an old shirt or
apron would be useful, beginners and experienced
Herbal Remedies for Home Use Create your own botanical ink reference sheet, are most welcome.
demonstrating how inks are affected by different
Monday 10 August 10.30am to 4.30pm modifiers. A set of handmade unbleached recycled Peter is a popular local artist and teacher, who
Tutor: Dawn Ireland paper is included in this course for you to start jointly runs Quay Drawing to encourage people
exploring the possibilities of these inks using brushes. to improve their observational skills and thereby
A wonderful day of shared and individual activities
Come away with a small set of handmade inks, a colour improve their artwork.
to make your own herbal oil, molasses pastilles
for indigestion, salt and dried herb bath sachets, and modifier key, and some explorational drawings. Fee: RHS Members £80 | Non-RHS Members £92
ointment/salves using the oil from the morning, Fee: RHS Members £95 | Non-RHS Members £107 Skill level: General/Beginners/Improvers
choice of essential oils to individual jars, herb teas for Skill level: General/Beginners Venue: Learning Centre Oak
common ailments and herbal sleep pillows. You will Venue: Learning Centre Oak Maximum 12 places
leave with your own collection of preparations and Maximum 8 places
the knowledge to make more at home. Homemade Fruit and
Herb Cordials
Friday 21 August 1.30pm to 5pm
Tutor: Sally Harvey (Country Cordials)
Sally is a once-upon-a-time food writer and recipe
developer, then smallholder, teacher and since 2012
“head cook and bottle washer” at Cornish Country
Cordials, making a range of fresh-tasting fruit drinks
without any artificial sweeteners, colours, flavours
or preservatives.
She will explain how to harvest the hedgerows
and orchards for a range of fruit cordials, delicious
with still or sparkling water, even better with a few
bubbles or a splash of something a little stronger?
Taste away then choose a few quick recipes to make
with her, before heading home with a selection to see
you through the autumn and winter.
Fee: RHS Members £50 | Non-RHS Members £62
Skill level: General/Beginner
Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Maximum 8 places
28 29Creative Creative
Drawing Day Autumn Treasures
Wednesday 9 September from the Garden
10.30am to 4.30pm Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September
Tutor: Peter Newell 10.30am to 4.30pm
After an introduction to the aims of the day you Tutor: Ros Franklin
will start working directly outdoors in the garden. A three-day botanical painting workshop working in
Seated on comfortable chairs and using large clip watercolour with RHS Gold medalist Ros Franklin FLS,
boards you will undertake a series of studies with SBA(Fellow), FEPFS. Ros has paintings included in the
expert guidance from your tutor. The tuition will RHS Lindley Library, the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
take you through a variety of drawing materials and Florilegium, Australia, and the Eden Project Florilegium
techniques enabling you to explore the qualities archives in Cornwall. She has been teaching for twelve
of each medium and how it relates to the subject years, and will be sharing her knowledge to explore rich
matter you are looking at. Once initial studies have autumn colours and textures, using colourful leaves,
been made, you will progress to a final drawing using nuts, fruits & vegetables from the gardens
watercolour wash. All materials and equipment are at Rosemoor.
provided, but please bring clothing for all weathers
and good walking shoes, beginners and experienced Students will be shown how to create three-
are most welcome. If the weather makes it impossible dimensional form by building up transparent layers;
to work outdoors there is a good indoor space. together with fine detail to create different textures,
using different watercolour techniques. Ros is offering
Peter is a popular local artist and teacher, who jointly the opportunity to work either on paper, or vellum, to
runs Quay Drawing to encourage people to improve capture these wonderful 'Autumn treasures from the
their observational skills and thereby improve their Gardens'. (Vellum will be available to purchase directly
artwork. During the day he will also introduce the from Ros). Suitable for all abilities.
use of sketchbooks in drawing.
Mosaic Owls and Elephants Fee: RHS Members £170 | Non-RHS Members
Fee: RHS Members £55 | Non-RHS Members £67 £206
Skill level: General/Beginner/Experienced Saturday 12 to Sunday 13 September
Skill level: General/Beginners/Improvers
Venue: Wisteria Meeting Room and Garden 10.30am to 4.30pm
Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Maximum 10 places Tutor: Amanda Anderson
Maximum 12 places
Amanda Anderson is an international selling mosaic
Needle-felted Sitting Fox artist who exhibits widely. She has over twenty- five
years’ experience in mosaic-making after originally
Saturday 5 September
studying sculpture at Liverpool’s School of Art.
10.30am to 4.30pm Amanda’s joyful mosaics are instantly recognisable
Tutor: Tracey Benton for their bold colours and whimsical designs of birds
Needle felting is a wonderfully simple technique and other creatures.
whereby fibre is shaped and compressed with the Spend a weekend making a wall based mosaic. Design
hand and 'fixed' in place using barbed needles which and cut a base from a foam and fibreglass sheet and
act like hooks, interlocking the fibres together and construct the mosaic using brightly coloured ceramic
forming a mass. This project is suitable for people pieces, stained glass and recycled china. Finish off
with no felting experience. with a weather proof grout and the mosaic will be
A choice of coloured fibres will be offered and all suitable for inside or out. All tools and materials are
tools required will be on loan. provided.
Fee: RHS Members £57 | Non-RHS Members £69 Fee: RHS Members £160 | Non-RHS Members £184
Skill level: General/Beginners/Improvers Skill level: General/Beginners
Venue: Learning Centre Oak Venue: Learning Centre Oak
Maximum 10 places Maximum 10 places
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