Brand new online gardening courses from the gardening greats!

This spring you can become the gardener you have always wished to be from the comfort of your home!  This week sees the launch of MyGardenSchool which is the world’s first online interactive garden school for gardeners.

MyGardenSchool provides you with your very own online horticultural classroom to help you create your dream garden. Whether you want to grow organic vegetables, create enviable flower borders, nurture the perfect lawn or simply give a good home to egg laying chickens, you will have personal contact with some of the world’s top tutors, receiving inspirational lessons, brought into your home digitally.

You will be able to ask your tutors specific questions and get expert replies. No where else would you have access to just a prestigious faculty of teachers and all available from your very own PC or mobile device. As you take your course, you enter a virtual classroom, giving students the chance to chat to both their peers and their tutors, as well as watching lectures and uploading homework.

You could find yourself doing a 4 week roses course with David Austin, or a Design Your Garden Course with internationals designer John Brookes You could learn about Lawns from the Chairman of Hillier’s Nurseries or become Organic Gardeners with Stephanie Donaldson garden editor of Country Living Magazine. All tutors are acclaimed, published garden experts who will impart their gardening knowledge to you at home, in an easy to follow and visually exciting format - via your computer.

MyGardenSchool was founded by Managing Director Elspeth Briscoe and [Associate Director Duncan Heather. Both are garden designers and Duncan is Principal of the renowned The Oxford College of Garden Design.  Elspeth and Duncan are at the forefront of embracing new technology in the teaching of all garden related subjects.  Prior to training as a garden designer, Elspeth spent 15 years developing some of the world’s most successful internet companies, whilst Duncan launched the world’s first interactive online course for post graduate students in garden design last year.

Elspeth and Duncan believe that with arts based and practical subjects such as horticulture, visual and audio stimulation is a more progressive, productive and fun way of learning.  Many people learn faster, and enjoy the experience more than learning a new topic in the traditional face-to-face or correspondence course lecture format, where students are given reams of dry written notes to digest.