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You'll learn how to create a year-round container garden, from planting a layered 'bulb lasagne' in autumn for a spectacular spring display, to clearing spent bulbs and replanting pots with half-hardy annuals for summer. Arthur covers choosing the right pots and compost, drainage, feeding with seaweed feed, deadheading correctly to prolong flowering, staking with silver birch, saving bulbs like hyacinths and crocus for next year, and combining colours and foliage for real impact. You'll also learn how to select plants for cutting so your pots supply flowers for vases indoors too.

You'll learn how to build a long-lasting, low-maintenance container garden using roses, shrubs, perennials and perennial bulbs rather than high-maintenance bedding plants. Arthur covers planting bare-root roses in large pots, insulating containers with wool, reviving tired old compost, choosing perennial bulbs like crocus, narcissi, hyacinths and Viridiflora tulips, and layering plants for year-round structure. He also takes you shopping at a garden centre so you learn how to select healthy plants and the right products without wasting money.

Arthur's first course focused on annuals, bulbs and seasonal bedding, while this second course looks at 'investment' plants — roses, shrubs, woody perennials and perennial bulbs that come back year after year and can even outlive you. The emphasis is on sustainability, lower cost over time and plants that thrive on semi-neglect, so you spend less time working and more time enjoying your garden. It's about creating a permanent skeleton and layers of planting rather than staging a last-minute flower show each summer.