Online Education
In these strange uncertain times, online just has to come first doesn’t it?
I am, and I can say this because I have been told so by someone who used to work for Microsoft marketing, a global leader in innovation in online garden-related education. Online is increasingly the way we are all going to learn, and I am very keen to promote access to high quality, informative and accessible teaching, relevant to amateur gardeners, professionals, designers and the landscape profession.
Check out www.gardenmasterclass.org which I run with my marvellous business partner, Annie Guilfoyle. We have been running physical workshops for three years now but rapidly got ourselves online during lockdown time, with a five day a week pro bono broadcast, all of which are now online and free to view on You Tube - we now do it once a week as Thursday Garden Chat. That’s over fifty viewing hours of garden-related content you won’t find anywhere else! And we are busy organising webinars, around three a month, and a course on naturalistic planting with Nigel Dunnett, which we will run on a regular basis.
I work with Learning with Experts currently with a number of online courses up and running, one on perennials another a collaboration with Piet Oudolf about his planting design- details below. For those who want to gain professional qualifications, I am also one of the tutors on the RHS Level 2 course. I also offer one on propagation.
Lectures, Workshops and Online Education
Available as a lecturer or workshop facilitator for garden groups, design and master gardener groups, colleges and others.
A reputation as one of the most innovative and imaginative of garden lecturers, particularly for the Rabbit's Eye View workshop on long-term plant performance.
Past appearances at the North West Flower Show (Seattle), The Chicago Botanic Garden, The Philadelphia Horticultural Society, American Society of Landscape Architects, Seminary Eco-Landscape (Moscow) and many many more in UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria. Russia, Ukraine, Argentina, Uruguay, Czech Republic.
Workshops
I have a background in adult education and am particularly interested in developing interactive teaching programmes and workshop for local groups of garden designers, landscape professionals or master gardeners.
Following my PhD research, I have developed a teaching methodology which works very well in a garden context – students have to get out and down on hands and knees to closely observe plants - 'The Rabbit's Eye View'. We look primarily at 'reading the plant' to predict its long-term performance as a garden or landscape plant. This workshop has proved very successful with everyone from amateur gardeners to landscape architects; designers and managers. For details please look here.
There are many other potential workshop topics too, looking at various aspects of planting design and garden plant management - many of the lecture topics below can be adapted. Please email me to discuss. For details please look here.
Contact me on noelk57@gmail.com if you would like to discuss a possible booking.
The banner image above was with Учебный центр 'Эко-образование' in 2014.