Home improvements and gardening

What will I learn? This course aims to introduce you to the skills of landscape horticulture. It will enable you to work on your own designs and to create and maintain your own planting schemes.During the course you will cover:● Drawing techniques and plans● Choice of materials, plants, design layouts● Identify a range of garden [...]

What will I learn? This course aims to provide learners with the techniques and product information required to plan their own interior schemes, making informed choices about colour, wall coverings, lighting schemes and window dressings.During the course learners will:● Explore the properties of colour and colour combinations● Consider how optical illusions can be used in [...]

What will I learn? This course will expand your existing knowledge covered in part one and to begin to develop ideas by working on individual design briefs or a client brief.During the course you will cover:● Space planning using technical drawings● Window dressing and measuring for fabrics ● Fabrics and suitably ● Lighting plans ● [...]

What will I learn? The course aims to consider the planting design of individual learner’s gardens, helping them to extend their knowledge of plants, identify existing plants in their gardens and choose the correct plants to improve and re-design them. During the course learners will:● Consider planting design techniques, the creation of different styles of [...]

What will I learn? This course will introduce the wide range of plants used in gardens. It covers the practical growing conditions and structure of both familiar and unusual, garden plants. We will examine the relationships between plants and their use in the garden classification. We also look at their pruning, feeding and care. The [...]

What will I learn? During this taster course learners will be introduced to:● The key aspects of home designing● Personal interior styles and preferences● Successfully using colour, pattern and textures● Arranging furniture for different rooms. Is this course for me? Everybody with just a keen interest in putting stylish interiors together is welcome. What do [...]

What will I learn? During the day you will be taken through the whole process of designing, planning and making a frame for one of your own pictures. Although this is DIY framing, it is certainly not a 'bodged' solution and you will amaze yourself at the quality and dynamic, creative style you can achieve [...]

What will I learn? The course covers 3 main areas of practical gardening: ● Sustainable Kitchen Gardening● Plant Botany● Identification.During the course learners will cover:● The assessment and choice of sites for crops and ornamental plants● The organization of propagation of plants for a range of plants, including seeds, cuttings and grafting● After care of [...]