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Workshops & Tours

Pelham Plants garden tour.

We love to share our knowledge and experience with participants on workshops and tours.   These pre-booked activities are a great opportunity for you to learn in a relaxed practical setting, gaining insight about plants and techniques that you can take back to your own gardens.

Our nursery and garden have a wide range of plants, designs and natural features to discuss and learn from, and we use a wide variety of on-site propagation and plant-care methods that we can share and help you practise.

We have ample parking, toilet facilities, indoor and outdoor workspaces to cater for whatever the weather, and good cake and simple refreshments can be provided.

Workshops

Pelham Plants, photo by John Glover.

Workshops include a mixture of key learning for general good gardening, and things that play to our special interests and local environment. We keep group sizes small to enable a quality educational experience, and combine theory and practice to help get the most out of them.

Examples of the workshops we aim to provide are listed below.  We always blend and adapt the content to suit the needs of the group.

  • Propagation (and care of young plants)
  • Herbaceous perennials for a clay garden
  • Plants for the shady customer
  • Using grasses in the garden
  • Making microclimates in your garden and the art of experimentation
  • Exotics, less hardy, and unusual plants
  • Ferns and foliage

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Workshop at Pelham Plants Nursery.

Example workshop

Propagation is the engine that drives Pelham Plants – join us at one of our regular Propagation Workshops where we guide you and share our tricks and tips for increasing your stock of plant.

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Propagation at Pelham Plants.

Garden Tours

Pelham Plants garden.

Join us for a guided tour of the borders and display beds of our private garden, which is otherwise rarely open to the public.

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The garden serves as a space to grow on and evaluate the plants we go on to sell in the nursery as well as experiment with different methods and styles of gardening.

Our tours focus on aspects of seasonal interest in the garden with plenty of opportunity for your own observations and questions, and are followed by good tea and cake and a chance to browse the nursery and seek advice about your own plants and gardens.

Take a look at our pages about the garden to see more about what you could see on the tours.

Pelham Plants garden tour.

Other visits & education by arrangement

We also welcome enquiries from groups and horticultural societies and are well used to facilitating these.

Please contact us for availability,  information about minimum group sizes, refreshments and any particular aspects of the garden or nursery that may be of most interest.

Pelham Plants garden tours.