Transform your garden this summer by joining a hands-on workshop with Nina Leeming
Experience an unforgettable day with Nina Leeming of HOW TO LOVE YOUR GARDEN. This interactive hands-on workshop is your chance to create a beautiful, flourishing garden just in time for summer.
Start the morning with coffee and biscuits inside the Garden Marquee before diving into the secrets of vibrant, long-lasting summer containers. You’ll plant your own 40cm late-summer planter, included in the ticket price, as a stunning garden centerpiece to take home, choosing from a selection of beautiful annuals and perennial plants grown especially for you at Borde Hill.
Moving outside in Borde Hill’s beautiful Gold Standard Rose Border, you’ll then learn how correct deadheading will prolong your summer displays right through the season, as well as understanding the simple rules of how and when to water.
After a delicious lunch served inside the marquee, you’ll return to the Garden for more hands-on learning. Gather and create your own organic comfrey plant feed to make and take home, and master simple, effective strategies for managing your garden weeds at home.
Following the workshop, take time to explore the Garden, which is especially beautiful in June with over 750 fragrant David Austin roses flowering in Jay Robin’s Rose Garden.
Don’t miss this chance to head into summer with the knowledge and confidence to make your garden thrive – whether you’re a complete beginner or a seasoned gardener, all are welcome to join the fun.
This workshop is an opportunity to grow your gardening skills and create something beautiful to take home
All materials are provided, but please bring gardening gloves and seceteurs.
Topics covered:
- Planting Pots & Containers (inside the Garden Marquee)
- Making Organic Feeds (outside in the Azalea Ring)
- Managing Weeds (outside in the Azalea Ring)
- Deed Heading (Practical session in Gold Standard Rose Border)
- Watering Know-How
Your ticket includes:
- A 40cm diameter planted container to take home, to include a salvia and 12 other plants, providing enough to take home to make up a further planter
- Practical rose pruning in Borde Hill’s Gold Standard border
- A bucket of Comfrey to take home
- Garden entry following the workshop until 5pm
- Workshop Guide/notebook to take home
- Refreshments on arrival
- Sandwich Platter lunch

Itinerary:
10.30am: Tea, coffee and biscuits on arrival inside the Garden Marquee
11.00am: Workshop begins creating Summer Containers before heading outside to the Gold Standard Rose Border to learn the techniques for deadheading and watering
1.00 – 1.30pm: Lunch, included, inside the Garden Marquee
1.30 – 3.00pm: Workshops continues making organic Comfrey feed, and expert advice on how to manage weeds
3.00pm onwards: Workshop ends with time to explore the Garden until it closes at 5pm
About Nina Leeming
Nina Leeming is an RHS-trained garden teacher and consultant. She is passionate about encouraging people to garden and not to be daunted by rules or jargon. To that end, she set up HOW TO LOVE YOUR GARDEN to inspire confidence and encourage people to connect with their outside space through workshops and 1-1 sessions.
For more information visit: www.howtoloveyourgarden.com
Instagram: @howtoloveyourgarden