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Water Gardening Talks to Garden Clubs and Horticultural Societies

Please select from one of the 7 talks featured below or check further down the page if you are looking for specific talks or a lecture day written especially for your own requirements.

Talk for garden groups on creating and planting a pond

'Creating and planting a pond'
A talk with images showing how to design and construct a pond and the choices of water plants you can have for creating the correct planting balance that will also give the finished pond the look you wanted.

Talks enjoyed by any group as it shows the wildlife that exists within a pond
'Planting for the wildlife in your pond'
Talk with images showing the wildlife visitors to the pond throughout the year and how to encourage them to your pond by choosing well balanced planting that will enhance their habitat.  This talk is enjoyed by everyone - whether an active gardener or not as the wildlife images capture the imagination.
The speaker will give you the benefit of her 15 years experience of running a pond plant nursery

'The pond owner's calendar'
A talk with images for the 'hand's on gardener' to show propagation and other tasks as well as planting highlights for each season of the pond year. This talk gives as much detail as we can to help the enthusiast pond keeper based on our 15 years of Nursery experience.

This talk focuses on water features and patio pond containers

'Enjoying water in small garden spaces'
Talks to inspire you with many design ideas and planting opportunities to incorporate water into the smallest of garden spaces. Many people go home with renewed enthusiasm for their water gardening. A thought provoking talk!

 
A talk to give details of making an area for bog and moist plants in the garden
'Creating a bog garden'
Talks with images on how to construct and then select plants for an area specially designed to grow moisture loving plants so that they will thrive wherever you may want them to grow.
 
A talk following our plans to exhibit at Chelsea Flower Show for the first time
'Our first time at Chelsea Flower Show'
Talk with slides on how we fulfilled our dream to put up an aquatic plant exhibit in the Pavilion at The Chelsea Flower Show in 2010 - the planning, the preparation and the people we met as we pulled it all together in time for the press day launch. Now with an add on extra - Chelsea revisited in 2011.
 
 
                           
The story of waterlilies from Latour Marliac to Monet
'The story of modern waterlilies'
Talk with images on the development of modern coloured waterlilies including a look at the Latour Marliac Nursery in France and his friendship with Claude Monet the painter who made waterlilies popular in his Impressionist paintings
 
                           *New talk for 2012*

We have undertaken Water Gardening lectures for College students, RHS Members, and talks for Hardy Plant Society groups, Cottage Garden Society groups, Local Government Environmental groups, Koi Clubs and individual Garden Clubs - many of them asking us back again and again. We are on the RHS Speakers List.

  • We undertake garden club talks between the months of September and March to allow for our Show Events in the other months of the year.
  • We have all our own equiptment for showing slides/images but would use your tables to show any plants we bring for sale.
  • Special orders can be brought to garden talks if members of the Garden Group choose from the catalogue online and then contact us direct (phone or email).They can then save the postage and packing costs of mail order.

For charges, mileage rates and to check date availability please use the contact us page or 07931 557082. We are based in Sharnford, Leicestershire












'Planting design for the Water garden' 
a day lecture with images for the Society o
f Garden Designers 
'Water plants' a day lecture for The English Gardening School, Diploma Course in Plants and Plantsmanship

 
   

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