Small garden design course - Task 1

Your first task

Here we go everyone - are you ready?

Today, I’m setting you the first really easy task, that requires just a bit of thinking and maybe some notes - maybe this project even deserves a whole new fresh notebook…

I’m going to be talking you through the ideas, and using a brand new garden that I’ve designed as an example to help you.

I’m then going to open up the Chat for you to upload your photos - there’s no rush, as I’ll be checking it frequently.

Everyone is welcome: whether you’d like simply to observe or participate a little bit or a lot. And every-sized garden space is welcome too….

A quick bit of housekeeping:

You’ve asked me, and so here we are: there are two new Zoom dates coming up:

There’ll be a re-run of ‘Finding your way around The Gardening Mind and how to use Substack’ on Wednesday 21st February at 6pm UK time. On Sunday 3rd March at 5pm UK time, there’ll be a Zoom for anyone who’s following the Small Garden series - we’ll get together and talk through experiences so far, and it’s also a nice opportunity to chat with newly-made acquaintances here on The Gardening Mind.

Thanks everyone who has joined in the Chat on Show Garden news - it really is nail-biting and hair-raising and spine-tingling all at the same time, and I’m glad you’re with me on the journey! Your encouragement and humour are really welcome, so stay tuned for more news on this never-been-done-before show garden project.

Up till this very moment, you might have thought that you didn’t have the skills to design your garden. I’m going to prove to you that you DO indeed have those skills, and just imagine: in the next few months, you’ll have an actual plan for your garden space. You really will.

Here we go: