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Follow Troy through the seasons at Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Troy shares expert techniques, planting insights, and practical advice to help you create beauty and structure year-round.
Discover how to care for your garden as it transitions from late winter into early spring. Learn practical pruning techniques, from fruit trees to spring-flowering shrubs, along with expert tips for training and tying in roses and clematis. Troy also shares the seasonal beauty of the Nuttery and Sissinghurst in Spring.
The final part explores the gardens during later Spring into Summertime. You’ll learn how to design a planting scheme similar to Sissinghurst’s, starting with mapping out a bed, layering plants, and incorporating shrubs, climbers, perennials, bulbs, and annuals.
Filmed over a year, this immersive course follows Sissinghurst Castle’s head gardener Troy Scott Smith as he shares unprecedented access to one of world’s most famous gardens. Troy shares expert techniques, planting insights, and practical advice to help you create beauty and structure year-round. From beds and borders to staking and succession, you’ll learn how to work with annuals, biennials,...
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Gardening has given me so much joy over the years, and I’d love to share some of that joy with you, giving you the confidence to give gardening a go.
Troy Scott Smith
39 LESSONs / 8 HOURs
Head Gardener at the world-famous Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Troy Scott Smith is one of the UK’s leading horticulturists. In this first lesson, we discover his journey and inspiration, his naturalistic gardening style and approach at Sissinghurst, and what we will learn in the course.
Sissinghurst’s history and the influence that it has on the way the garden is managed today a theme that runs throughout the course. Troy takes us through the story behind the garden, its creators, and some of the most iconic areas.
On a glorious autumn morning in the orchard, we learn how to add spring bulbs to grass in a naturalistic and effective way that is sensitive to the surroundings and provides a succession of colour.
Troy explores the practical aspects of how to plant bulbs efficiently, how other spring plants can be added to grass for further interest, and how yellow rattle can be used to help convert grass into meadow.
In the surroundings of the famous White Garden at Sissinghurst, Troy demonstrates some key tasks to do in early March to get the season off to the best start.
Troy demonstrates how to plant Narcissi to add spring interest to a shadier area of the White Garden, and a trick for starting off bulbs if you’re not yet sure where to put them.
Offering several advantages over pot-grown roses, bare root roses are easy to plant with Troy’s simple tricks to give them the best start.
Troy shares how to train your rose once it’s well established, to get the most out of the blooms and create the right atmosphere you want to make for your garden.
From Troy’s favourite part of the garden, you’ll learn how to choose and plant a pear tree, and the aftercare needed to give it the best start.
Spring bulbs bring some of the first colour and joy of the year. Troy shows you how to use them in long grass, orchard or meadow areas to achieve a beautiful naturalistic effect.
You’ll learn in detail how to harness this essential skill to keep apple and pear trees healthy, productive and in good shape.
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Release Date: April 14, 2026
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