Garden courses
Working with colour in your garden with Henry Macaulay and Max Crisfield
Ref: S1D10628
Suitable for all
£128About this course
Explore the use of colour in your garden. Discover new colour combinations and how to extend the season as you work on a planting plan for your garden.Course Description
Explore the use of colour in your garden under Henry and Max’s expert eyes and be inspired by their plantings. Discover new colour combinations and how to extend the season using late summer colour. You will have the chance to work on a planting plan for your garden.
They will bring ideas from the gardens they have worked in to inspire you as you spend the morning session looking at colour; using perennials, shrubs, annuals and even vegetables – exploring texture too, giving you lots of ideas to start formulating your own schemes.
After morning coffee the focus will be on the use of repetition and height in your displays along with foliage and supporting plants to help enhance your star performers. That will be followed by a walk around West Dean Gardens looking at plants to inspire your own design and scheme.
The afternoon will be dedicated to helping you create a scheme or plant association for you to implement in your own garden; you are invited to come armed with photographs.
Timetable
Timetable for one day courses
Students should arrive by 9am for registration.
Classes are from 9.15 - 5pm
Lunch is included.
Course Materials
What students need to bring
- Photographs and cuttings of planting combinations or colours that you particularly like
- Any image of a colour combination that inspires you
- A notebook and pens/pencils/coloured pencils
- A large sketchbook/pad or larger paper for sketching out your plans and ideas for your garden
- Books that inspire you
- Outdoor clothing (waterproofs) for walking around the gardens
- Photographs of your garden you would like design a scheme for
Available to buy
- Available from shop:
- A large sketchbook/pad, sheets of paper
- Pens, pencils, coloured pencils
Tutors
Henry Macaulay works at Sarah Raven's Cutting Garden at Perch Hill - he previously worked at Nymans and recently at Parham House, where as a Senior Gardener he managed the gardens’ inspiring colour-themed herbaceous borders. A tutor at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation and the Garden House in Brighton, his work has featured in magazines including Country Living, BBC Gardeners World, the English Garden and Country Life.
Max Crisfield was kitchen gardener at Parham House and Gardens for five years. In 2020 he joined a new team, working for head gardener and master horticulturalist Ben Pope at an Arne Maynard-designed private garden in West Sussex. He has taught at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation and the Garden House in Brighton and has had articles published in The Telegraph and The English Garden.
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