The Land Gardeners
Micaela Sharp is a professional upholsterer, interior designer and broadcaster who has built her career around the art of reupholstery — turning tired armchairs into family heirlooms and championing sustainability over disposability. The carpentry and sewing skills passed down by her grandparents underpin a practice that runs from bespoke furniture to fully designed room schemes.
Sustainable designer and modern upholstery expert. TV presenter and interior design judge.
Course
A Year of Cut Flowers
Discover how to grow year-round flowers with top gardeners and designers Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy of The Land Gardeners. From their flower farm in France, their London studio and a selection of their favourite gardens, Henrietta and Bridget will teach you step-by-step how they grow, gather and prepare their favourite flowers across the seasons. In this course you will learn how to design a cut flower garden from scratch, how to plan for floral and foliage abundance throughout the year, how to collect and store seed and how best to prepare your flowers and bulbs for life in the vase.
37 Lessons
Included with membership
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01 Meet The Land Gardeners -
02 Planning your cut flower garden - Part 1: Influences and inspiration -
03 Planning your cut flower garden - Part 2: Designing a dedicated cut flower bed -
04 Planning your cut flower garden - Part 3: Adding cut flowers to existing beds -
05 Planning your cut flower garden - Part 4: Planting into wilder areas
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06 Having the right tools -
07 Cutting from the garden in spring - Part 1: Woad, scabious, hesperis and cerinthe -
08 Cutting from the garden in spring - Part 2: Angelica and apple blossom -
09 Cutting from the garden in spring - Part 3: Guelder rose, euphorbia, currants and artichokes -
10 Tulips - Part 1: Harvesting -
11 Tulips - Part 2: Arranging -
12 Low-maintenance flowers for grassland -
13 Sweet peas: Planting out and creating a teepee
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14 Summer in the garden - An introduction -
15 Go-to cut flowers in summer - Part 1: Peonies, cosmos, Verbena bonariensis and valerian -
16 Go-to cut flowers in summer - Part 2: Shrubs, lilies and digitalis -
17 Go-to cut flowers in summer - Part 3: Favourite perennial flowers -
18 Go-to cut flowers in summer - Part 4: Favourite annual flowers -
19 Picking peonies -
20 Delphiniums -
21 Dahlias - Part 1: Planting -
22 Dahlias - Part 2: Dividing -
23 Roses
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24 Dahlias - Part 3: Staking and picking -
25 Dahlias - Part 4: Different varieties and arranging -
26 Cosmos -
27 Sweet peas: Tying-in and collecting seeds -
28 Planting bulbs in grassland -
29 Planting tulip bulbs -
30 An arrangement using autumn favourites
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31 Bringing winter flowers inside - Part 1: An introduction -
32 Bringing winter flowers inside - Part 2: Hellebores -
33 Bringing winter flowers inside - Part 3: Aconites and snowdrops -
34 Bringing winter flowers inside - Part 4: A few other favourites -
35 Forcing bulbs -
36 Dividing peonies -
37 Planting a bare root rose
Course
How to Heal Your Soil
What is soil and why is it so important to life? In this course Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy of The Land Gardeners will answer these questions and share learnings from decades of research into compost and soil health. Discover how you can improve the quality of your earth to increase its nutrient density and ability to sequester carbon, helping you to grow stronger, healthier and more resilient plants and increasing the biodiversity in your garden. Learn how to heal your soil through preparation, feeding, compost and green manures, and how by nurturing your soil, you are nurturing yourself.
13 Lessons
Included with membership
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01 Starting out on a journey of soil health -
02 What is so important about soil? -
03 The Land Gardeners’ climate compost -
04 Testing your soil
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05 Cutting and preparing new beds -
06 Green manures
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07 How to make a compost cake -
08 A compost cake after six months -
09 Storing ingredients and making a compost in a bay -
10 Other ways to make compost -
11 Compost teas and other ways to feed your soil -
12 Preparing an existing bed for planting
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13 A summary of the key points of how to heal your soil
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Begin your creative journey
One membership. Unlimited inspiration. Start today.
For $30 $24/month billed annually