Writtle wraps up Chelsea silver for its grow-your-own garden
23 May 2012
Writtle College has won a silver award for a Chelsea garden showing visitors to the event including Jerry Hall and Sir Cliff Richard how to grow their own at home.
National Trust for Scotland has launched a two-year diploma in heritage gardening to beef up the practical skills of fledgling staff.
Writtle College has won a silver award for a Chelsea garden showing visitors to the event including Jerry Hall and Sir Cliff Richard how to grow their own at home.
Sector skills council Lantra has relaunched its website - www.lantra-awards.co.uk - for horticulture employers and staff looking for training and qualifications options.
In this, the careers edition of Horticulture Week, it is only fitting that we should have as the subject of our main interview Des Smith, who landed one of the biggest roles in horticulture when he became head gardener for the Olympic Park gardens two years ago.
Writtle College is to champion grow your own and recycling in the tightest of urban spaces at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Plumpton College in East Sussex has cancelled its open day on Saturday 12 May 2012 because car parking fields are too wet.
Two new heritage gardening courses have been launched by the National Trust.
Design students are cutting their teeth on the Queen's Diamond Jubilee by creating a new community garden to mark the 60-year celebration.
Every school should be required by the government to employ a professional horticulturalist, a Royal Horticultural Society careers conference heard last week.
Society sets sights on curriculum inclusion after survey finds lack of horticulture career promotion.
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