Arthur welcomes you to the course and outlines his journey into container gardening, empowering you to share in the love that he has for small gardens.

A beautiful garden is the result of careful planning. Arthur explains how in his planning he uses ‘decoupage’ - a process of laying collage on paper to truly understand how your planting scheme fits together.

Arthur lays out a ‘spring decoupage’, sharing some of his favourite planting schemes and explaining how the process of decoupage allows you to sequence your container planting so it’s appealing all spring.

Arthur leads you through the final steps needed to create spring decoupage, the importance of planning for pollinators, and how to visualise blooms from your garden plan.

Discover how you can create a summer garden that is both intentional and bountiful with this lesson on summer decoupage.

Arthur shares with you his sowing calendar, explaining what to sow and when to sow it.

In this tour of Burford Garden Company, Arthur explains what he looks for when buying bulbs, how to choose succession planting, and how to identify healthy bulbs.

Arthur shares tips for caring for your bulbs and shows you different varieties of hyacinths and Dutch irises.

Garden centres present a perfect opportunity to curate a palette of colours you love. Arthur guides you through how to organise colour palettes.

Arthur shares his favourite pot-toppers that elevate any bulb lasagne.

Arthur shares some of his favourite seeds.

The importance of good pots and containers is often overlooked. With Arthur's help, learn how to pick the right pots for your garden.

Learn how to clean the summer show from your containers and prepare them for spring.

Arthur explains every aspect of a bulb lasagne as he breaks it down layer by layer.

Correctly preparing your soil is key in ensuring a bulb lasagne that is full of flourishing flowers.

Arthur runs you through the first layer of his bulb lasagne, tulips. In this lesson, you learn about Arthur's favourite varieties of tulips and how to plant them up to ensure consistent flowering in Spring.

Discover how to make a beautiful bulb lasagne by layering hyacinths, Dutch irises and crocuses.

To add the finishing touches to your bulb lasagne, Arthur shows you how he layers kale and cardoons.

A silver birch parrot cage is a great way to give your garden some flair. Discover how Arthur creates his own parrot cage and learn how you can make one, too.

Discover how to build your own silver birch wigwam to grow beautiful, tall sweet peas.

Pots don’t have to be just for spring and summer. Arthur explains how to arrange your containers in the quieter times of year.

Arthur shows us round the garden in early spring demonstrating why it’s worth planting an array of successional bulbs to get months, rather than weeks, of colour in the garden. Crocuses, Hyacinths, muscari and pansies all glitter away like jewels in Arthur’s collection of pots.

Arthur shows how to plant a perennial pot of lilies that will give the garden incredible colour for summers to come.

Potting up your dahlias in early spring and keeping them undercover gives them a head start and a better chance of a magnificent display all through the summer. In this lesson, Arthur talks you through exactly how to do this, avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls.

Arthur shows you how to pinch out your sweet pea seedlings to stop them getting leggy, and help create healthy, bushy plants that will transform your garden with colour and scent when they flower later in the year.

Master your flower-cutting skills with this lesson as you learn how to choose and cut the best flowers.

Learn how to cut bulbs and how to pick flowers straight into the water with Arthur's tips and tricks.

Learn the art of cutting cut-and-come-again flowers. In this lesson, you will learn where and how to cut pansies and violas for a flourishing garden.

Learn when to cut peony tulips at their peak to fill any vase.

Arthur takes you through his process for arranging a table - from how to choose vases that are the correct style and size, to how to arrange your flowers.

Arthur explains his finishing touches when arranging flowers for his kitchen table, and provides you with questions to ask yourself when arranging.

Arthur shows you around his tulip and wallflower wall, teaching you how you can layer colours and heights to create a canopy effect of flowers.

It’s May and all the bulbs have flowered and it’s time to clear out the spring show from the big copper pot. Arthur shows what bulbs and plants are worth keeping and which should go on the compost.

Arthur demonstrates how to prepare the soil for planting up the pot for summer, to give it the best chance of producing magnificent blooms.

Arthur shows how to plant up a large pot with a combination of grasses, foliage and prolific flowerers to ensure a riot of colour later in the summer.

Watering and feeding your pots is essential to their success. Here Arthur gives you tips on what to feed them and how often to water to help your plants thrive.

In this lesson Arthur shows how the tubers potted up in March are doing, and demonstrates another option of waiting until after the frost to direct plant your dahlias.

Arthur shows how to use a large dahlia and a climber to screen off an area of the garden.

Arthur talks through one of his favourite pots in the garden which includes Cerinthe major, an absolute magnet for the bees, as well as three types of allium.

From his trusted Sankey pot to galvanised containers, Arthur shows you all of his favourite containers, and teaches you how to choose the right size pot for your garden.

Learn how to create a beautiful summer and how to mix your compost and lay out your plants in the pot.

Arthur finishes off his summer pot, and he shows you the best way to deadhead dahlias so that the pot stays full all summer long.

Learn how Arthur uses salvias to keep colour in the garden all the way to October, when the other plants have given up.

Arthur shows off his gorgeous summer wall, his take on a window box, and illustrates the importance of thrillers, pillars, and spillers in any planting scheme.

Arthur revisits the big copper pot to talk through the riot of colour and which flowers have thrived in the heat of the summer.

Discover how the tin bath has exploded into bloom since May and find out Arthur’s new favourite salvia, as well as the joys of lemon verbena.

Arthur shows how to tie up a dahlia that’s put on a lot of growth to ensure it retains its form and flowers well.

One of the many delights of a garden full of pots is being able to rearrange them to suit different seasons. In this lesson, see how Arthur has grouped his pots to create an island in the garden.

Zinnias love the sunshine and heat of the summer and Arthur shows how a pot planted with purely zinnias really sings.

Arthur walks you through his favourite flowers used for making beautiful pressed flower Christmas cards.

Arthur discusses how he creates Christmas allium displays.