Expert horticultural advice for ambitious winter gardeners is being presented this Sunday at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
Tim Upson, curator of the Botanic Garden, will be running a course on a range of different ways to keep gardens looking beautiful during the colder months.
The course will use the Winter Garden as a teaching tool in surveying the different elements which can be combined to make a successful winter garden or planting.
Key design ideas, such as landscaping and the use of sunlight, will be explored in the first half of the session, together with the history of the Winter Garden. The second half will look at individual plants and their care. All the concepts discussed will be applicable to domestic gardens.
Weather permitting, the course will be based outside, in and around the Winter Garden. Plant lists and planting plans will be supplied. In the event of bad weather, visits will be shorter and supplemented by slides and cut material.
The Winter Garden, which was opened in 1979, brings together coloured stems and leaves, textured tree trunks, underplantings of bulbs and a variety of winter flowers to create a garden at its best from December to April. A judicious use of landscaping provides a shadow valley for a curving path, flooded with light from the setting sun.
Tim Upson has been curator of the Botanic Garden since 1997. He views the Winter Garden as one of its key features and has taken a keen interest in its development, including the restoration of original features and the introduction of new plants and combinations.
Source: By University Of Cambridge
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