Tom Marshall
Meadow © NWWT
Penny Dixie
Event details
Meeting point
Treborth Botanic Garden Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2RQDate
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About the event
Join us for this introductory course to wildlife gardening!
We’ll cover a wide range of gardening topics where you’ll learn how to create different habitats to attract wildlife into your garden, whether big or small. This will involve classroom and hands-on training where you’ll learn new skills and wildlife gardening techniques.
We’ll meet every week, and you’ll have some simple tasks to complete between each session to gain your Wildlife Trust certificate in wildlife gardening.
You will complete 20 hours of contact time and about 10 hours of private study.
The sessions will cover the following topics:
Week 1: Introduction to Wildlife Gardening
Week 2: Soils and Growing Media
Week 3: Arranging your garden
Week 4: Growing Plants
Week 5: Lawns, meadows and nectar cafes
Week 6: Additional homes for animals
Week 7: Water in the garden
Week 8: Bringing it together
Book your place for this 8-week course by clicking on the booking link. You must be 18+ to register.
This course is suitable for everyone and no previous gardening skills are required. If accessibility is a concern please let us know. Places are limited and we recommend booking early to ensure a space.
The organisers speak Welsh and English, feel free to use either during this course.
Price
The course cost per person is £240, (£30 per week) and will cover all course costs including refreshments.
If this is too prohibitive, please do get in touch to see if we can make other arrangements: iwan.edwards@northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk
Payments are non-refundable.
Booking
Price
The course cost per person is £240, (£30 per week) and will cover all course costs.If this is too prohibitive, please do get in touch with: iwan.edwards@northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk
To see if we can make other arrangements.
Additional booking information
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Meet the tutors
The course will be run by our experienced wildlife gardening team.
Anna Williams, Education & Community Wildlife Officer © NWWT
Anna Williams
Anna grew up in Sweden, trained in forestry and worked as a field botanist and surveyor before taking up the post of running the Snowdonia Wildlife Gardening Project 20 years ago.
She is now the Education and Community Officer for the North Wales Wildlife Trust covering north west Wales. Her work focuses on training and helping schools and communities create wildlife friendly gardens. She has extensive experience of running courses and doing practical gardening work. Anna has developed her own patch on the hill into a wildlife haven and has been growing veg and fruit for her family for the last 30 years.
In her free time, she enjoys adventures, exploring wild places whilst walking, climbing, biking or kayaking. She speaks Welsh.
Iwan Edwards, Education & Community Wildlife Officer © NWWT
Iwan Edwards
Iwan studied Ecology, then spent a period travelling and working abroad, before returning to North Wales to study Landscape and Garden design at the WCOH. He has been delivering habitat creation, green space improvement, community and education projects for the North Wales Wildlife Trust since 2010 and co-presented S4Cs popular gardening programme ‘Garddio a Mwy’ for the last 10 years along with his wife and their garden in Dyffryn Clwyd.
Lisa Toth, Garden Escapers Project Officer © Lisa Toth
Lisa Toth
Lisa is a horticulturalist and professionally trained Garden Designer and holds qualifications from the RHS, Capel Manor and the acclaimed London College of Garden Design in Kew.
She has a particular interest in planting design. Lisa works with her clients on what to plant, how to manage their gardens better and how to avoid invasive species. She now brings her extensive knowledge of ornamental plants to the Garden Escapers! project at North Wales Wildlife Trust.
Lisa enjoys cycling and hiking, wild swimming, yoga and exploring the Welsh countryside with her dog. She speaks German and Spanish and ‘mae hi’n dysgu Cymraeg ar hyn o bryd’ (she’s learning Welsh at the moment).
