Discounts

Live in-person events with a 5% discount for members (code GMem12). All are now on the diary pages

Live webinars 10% discount with code GMem12 on the diary pages

We use Ticket Tailor for our webinar and live event booking - when buying tickets via our diary page you enter the discount code in the ‘your details’ box where it says ‘Do you have a promo code?’

For webinar and workshop recordings

50% discount on webinar recordings and 30% on live workshop recordings with code GMem12

We use Vimeo for these, enter the code where is says Promo code on their payment page.

And a 20% discount on membership of Pacific Horticulture here.

Recordings exclusively for members

We’ve just got the second of our special member-only recordings up; with Julie Weiss, an American garden person who Noel and Annie met a few years ago; she's professionally a graphic and print media designer but in this recording she tells of her conversion to gardening, and her involvement with Great Dixter garden, where she worked a full year as an intern. It's a lovely recording with an engaging speaker. You can find it here. As well as a range of podcasts.

The best and most popular recordings from the Thursday Garden Chats go here, exclusively for members.

We’ve also got a fascinating and lavishly-illustrated talk by James Hitchmough - Grass as Good Guy, Bad Guy, a highly informative travelogue as this inimitable world travellers talks us through a range of natural grassland communities, with a focus on how grasses can provide habitat for, or compete with, other plant species. If you haven’t heard him, this man is regarded as pretty much the best lecturer in our field. You'll find him here.

Filmed workshops:

Wild at Dixter….. New Brownfield Sites….. Listening to the Land….. The legacy of John Brookes….. Exciting low maintenance perennial mixes… Grasses

Our first recording of a live workshop was a wonderful talk by Fergus Garrett on biodiversity in the Great Dixter garden, followed by the Masterclass group going around the garden with entomologist Andy Phillips. Our second recording is about a radical approach to creating biodiversity at a whole range of scales recorded on a sunny day in Essex with the inspiring and informative John Little. We also have the inimitable James Hitchmough on low maintenance perennial mixes, Marian Boswall talking us through a garden she has made in Kent and a round-table to discuss the legacy of the late John Brookes. Our latest is Neil Lucas, sharing his incredible knowledge of ornamental grasses on a beautiful early autumn day at the Welsh National Botanic Garden.

For members we have a 30% discount on the rental price, for the usual 30 day viewing period, with discount code Mem21

See the workshop recordings here

Planted ! The Gardening Soap Opera

And now for members only, a gift! Some ten years ago, Noel started writing a soap opera for gardeners, a comedy of manners and gardening rivalry that explores some of the dominant themes of English garden culture. The technology wasn't quite right for the time, but now he is re-launching it, as a podcast series for members, read by his wife, Jo Eliot.

Planted! – a Story of English Garden Folk - the Soap Opera for Gardeners Meet Petunia and Wayne Martin, creators of Avalon Gardens and their neighbours Archibald and Rose Watkins-Smythe up at the historic garden of Mere Castle. Meet their respective gardeners: Bonzo the ex-heavy metal roadie and born-again Johnny Dalton, a local nurseryman or two and a cast of other colourful characters such as the village herbal healer Catkin Moonspirit and imperious garden school guru Marguerite Smithson.

You can access the podcast episodes from Noel’s website here, with password: gardensoap