One Year Garden Design Diploma top student graduate Steve Williams’s short-listed entry in the Domestic Design category of the Society of Garden Designers Student Awards 2017.
One Year Garden Design Diploma top student graduate Steve Williams’s short-listed entry in the Domestic Design category of the Society of Garden Designers Student Awards 2017.
School Principal Caroline Tatham is a multi award winning garden designer and qualified lecturer who is the lead tutor for the One Year Garden Design Diploma and the Concise Garden Design courses
In 2014 our students helped to build and plant a feature garden at the Cheltenham Literature Festival
Graduate Martyn Wilson’s RHS silver-gilt medal winning garden being filmed to appear on Gardeners’ World
Caroline Tatham talking plants at The RHS Malvern Spring Festival
Caroline designed the celebrity stage at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival which student volunteers helped to build
Our school is set within the grounds of historic Gossington Hall and its nine acres of gardens.
Congratulations to One Year Garden Design graduate Martyn Wilson for an RHS gold medal at this year’s Malvern Show
Students graduate with real experience and real project work in their portfolios as well as practical business advice
Congratulations to Martyn Wilson for winning an RHS gold medal at the Hampton Court Flower Show in 2017
Caroline has mentored new designers to build medal winning show gardens at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival
Caroline’s busy design practice brings learning and real life case studies together with lots of real examples
Graduate Kate Durr’s beautiful garden won a gold medal and ‘Best in Show’ at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival
Our professional diploma courses feature a selection of visiting tutors across a range of subjects
Our light and airy schoolroom boasts catering facilities, a well stocked library and lots of dedicated parking
Welcome to The Cotswold Gardening School
COVID-19 update: Our day courses will start again per our timetable in May 2021. Your safety is our top priority and a full risk assessment is available on our website, or you can email us to receive a copy.
We have launched two interactive online gardening courses for Planning and Planting Borders online course and Introduction to Garden Design online course. These are now available to book on the website, costing £120 per course and include 6 weeks interaction with Caroline for feedback via a closed Facebook group. Both of the online courses give you the opportunity to work on ideas for your own garden with the support of Caroline’s professional advice and many years of experience.
A new twelve week Design Your Own Garden online course has recently been launched. This is a more in-depth course that includes informative slide shows, videos and the closed Facebook group for interactive feedback with our Principal, Caroline Tatham. Caroline has over twenty years of garden design and teaching experience and is looking forward to offering enrolled students the advice and support they need to design their own garden and planting. Caroline will discuss your project with you in advance to ensure that it is suitable. The course has an introductory price of £495.
Set in the grounds of historic Gossington Hall in the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside we are an independent design school offering quality learning in a supportive and friendly atmosphere across a wide range of courses. We are supported by Bridgwater & Taunton College for our One Year Diploma in Garden Design and their report last year included the following: “ a wide range of teaching staff with substantial industry experience. Excellent positive feedback from students.You have now established that the level of delivery equates to a level 4/5 course. Happy students and an efficiently run programme - well done.” This year’s report has just been received (July 2020) and states in the summary “the quality of the work is very strong and shows clearly the quality of the course delivery”.
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