Succession Planting: Layered Planting for a Long Season Featuring Fergus Garrett

Fergus Garrett, CEO of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, will talk about the principles of long season gardening. He will touch on long season plants, shape, texture, underplanting and interplanting with bulbs and other plants which are happy to share the same space, as well as the use of self sowers and temporary fillers to prolong the seasons.

The main part of the talk will concentrate on how you use bulbs and woodland plants to provide another layer in your perennial and mixed borders. From snowdrops through to alliums, these play a vital role in filling the gaps and giving you color for many months.

About the speaker: Fergus Garrett has been head gardener at the internationally acclaimed Great Dixter Garden in Northiam, East Sussex, UK, since 1993, where he learned his craft from the legendary Christopher Lloyd. Now CEO of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust, Fergus is a highly decorated horticulturist whose honors include the 2019 Victoria Medal of Honour, from the Royal Horticultural Society. He is dedicated to sharing his expertise in ornamental gardening and ecological practices through teaching, lectures, and projects that promote biodiversity worldwide.

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