The Land Gardeners

Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy founded The Land Gardeners in 2012, working as garden designers, cut-flower growers and compost-makers united by a passion for soil health. They restore historic gardens and supply leading florists, and recently launched Climate Compost — a microbially rich compost born from years of research into soil biology and biodiversity.

Award-winning garden designers and cut flower growers on a mission to save our soil.

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

Lesson plan — 37 lessons

01 Introduction

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

02 Spring

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

03 Summer

14 Summer in the garden - An introduction
15 Go-to cut flowers in summer - Part 2: Shrubs, lilies and digitalis
16 Go-to cut flowers in summer - Part 1: Peonies, cosmos, Verbena bonariensis and valerian
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

04 Autumn

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

05 Winter

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

Start learning Watch a free lesson

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

Lesson plan — 13 lessons

01 Starting out on a journey of soil health

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

02 Improving the soil in your beds

05 Cutting and preparing new beds
06 Green manures

03 Microbially rich compost

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

04 Summary

13 A summary of the key points of how to heal your soil

Start learning Watch a free lesson

“I have completed the Land Gardeners Flower Garden course and found it really informative and useful - really inspired to try for myself.”

Michelle Moggy

“I have subscribed to access all the courses so have watched one on interior design and this one with Butter Wakefield who specialises in small garden design. She has a lovely personality and comes across as being a ve...”

Louise Brown Apr 10, 2026

“I love CreateAcademy. I came in for the gardening and floristry courses, but am also watching an interior design one at present. And the photography course is an absolute must, best I've ever done.”

Wellesley Apr 1, 2026

“What a great investment, I have learned such a lot from the first three courses. My evenings have gone from not being able to find anything that captured my imagination on TV to learning and expanding my knowledge on ...”

sojojo Mar 30, 2026

Explore more