Courses

Students get to see some of the leading gardens and horticulture enterprises and meet the gardeners and growers working at each visit. In this way they learn at first hand more about the their jobs and the skills required to carry them out effectively.

Previous tours have gone to different areas of England as well as Belgium and Holland.

Examples of gardens visited include:

Modern Gardens:

• Alnwick Castle Gardens
• Keukenhof gardens
• University of Bristol Botanic Gardens

Historic Gardens:

• Het Loo
• Hidcote Manor Garden (download attached PDF)
• Tatton Park
• Levens Hall
• Rydal Hall

Historic Landscapes:

• Croome Park
• Westonbirt Arboretum
• Tromenburg Arboretum

There are Nursery visits to some of the leading growers of a wide range of crops:

• Royal van Zanten breeders of cut flowers
• Findons bedding plant growers
• Bransford Webbs and Garden Centre Plants who grow hardy plants for garden centres and vegetable producers.

Other visits made are to research stations such as the Belgian Research Station for Ornamental Plants and Rijk Zwaan of the Netherlands who produce new vegetable varieties and wholesale markets.

In addition to the study tour visits to local gardens, landscapes and growers are made as part of specific teaching objectives.