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The Plant School at Chelsea Flower Show 2011

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Rosemary Campbell-Preston will be representing The Plant School at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the fourth consecutive year.

Visit the Plant School at Chelsea Flower Show 2010

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Visit the Plant School at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2010 Stand EA60

The Plant School launches in Paris

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The Plant School is delighted to announce that The Plant Course will run at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris from September 2010. Lectures will be held in the Pavillion de la Baleine. The course runs one day a month and the times are 10.30am to 3.15 pm.

Please indicate by contact us if you would like to attend.

More information on the Plant Course at the Plant School in Paris is available here.

Rosemary at Chelsea Flower Show 2009

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Rosemary appeared on the BBC with Carol Klein discussing the Chelsea Flower Show.

The Plant School at Chelsea Flower Show 2009

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Plant School will be on stand EA 48 at the Chelsea Flower Show 2009. Please come and talk to us to learn more about our courses and plant tours.

A new course for the Plant School will be launched at The Chelsea Flower Show this year. Please contact Rosemary if you would like to know more about it.

Successful Plant Tour of the French Riviera 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Riviera Tour 2008 - Acid Soils

A most enjoyable tour of the gardens and indigenous plants of the French Riviera was completed at the beginning of May. The season was late this year and there where plenty of plant of interest in the gardens which would normally be over. Several exceptional wild plants were noted this year both on the alkaline slopes and also the acid soils in the surrounding hills. The tour is planned again for the Spring of 2009. Numbers are always limited so please register your interest early if you are thinking of joining this tour.

Course News 2008

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Plant School Students on tour

The Plant Course, a new venture for this year has several students already signed up and more interested. We look forward to it running its first year based in Chelsea with practical days both at the Chelsea Physic Garden and also at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Please contact us if you are interested.

The Plant Tour of the Cape Floral Kingdom, South Africa (Sunday November 9th - Monday November 17) is now almost completely booked with only one or two places remaining. Please contact us if you are interested.

Chelsea 2008

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Rosemary at the Plant School stand at Chelsea 2008

We shared a stand with Capital Gardens this year for the launch of The Plant School and it was a delight to see so many of you and to meet several prospective students for the next academic year. This was a good opportunity to hear that The Plant School has been extremely well received. There was much interest in a school given over specifically to plants and their study which was very encouraging. The stand at the show was great fun to put on and it was wonderful to see all who came to visit us.

PRESS RELEASE: The Plant School launches at Chelsea 2008

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Chelsea Flower Show 2008 sees the launch of The Plant School, a new and innovative school offering courses and plant tours dedicated entirely to plants.

The courses will be run from a studio in Chelsea and will include visits to the plant collections at The Chelsea Physic Garden nearby and also The Royal Botanic Garden, Kew.

The Director of Courses is Rosemary Campbell-Preston B.Sc (Hons.) who comes from a famous gardening family, Waterers. She has a degree in Plant Sciences from Wye College and for the last seven years has been a Course Director at the English Gardening School.

Plant enthusiasts including Roy Lancaster and Carol Klein will form part of the teaching team. Courses start in September, run for three terms and finish at the end of June. Students need no prior formal training but must have an interest in plants.

Courses are structured to provide an understanding of how plants grow, the conditions found in their natural habit and how they interact with their surroundings. Students who have successfully completed the courses can pursue a variety of interests and careers in the field s of garden design, plant photography and media. They will be given priority for places on the exclusive plant tours. Recent tours have been to the Cape Floral Kingdom, South Africa and the Riviera, South of France.

Rosemary Campbell-Preston B.Sc.(Hons.) says, "I am really excited about this new venture and am looking forward to sharing my love of plants with The Plant School students".

The Plant School will be at Stand Eastern Avenue 72 (EA72) where Rosemary will be at the show on the Stand.

Chelsea Flower Show Drinks Party

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The Plant School Chelsea Flower Show Drinks Party serves as a reunion for past students and also enables the present year students to meet up with each other on an informal basis. This year it will again be held on the Thursday of Chelsea Flower show week (Thursday 22nd May, 6.30 - 8.30pm).

Gillian Foster prints available at our Chelsea stand

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

"Pelargonium" - Gillian Foster

Gillian Foster trained as a botanical artist in London and graduated with distinction. Two of her paintings have been selected for inclusion in the Highgrove Florilegium presently being created under the aegis of the Prince of Wales Charitable foundation to celebrate and record in a permanent way the flora in the garden at Highgrove. The American Society of Botanical Artists has chosen Gillian's "Black Parrot" tulip watercolour to promote the current exhibition of these works at the New York School of Interior Design. She is a Royal Horticultural Society medallist and exhibits in London and Cape Town. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburg, U.S.A. and by private collectors in Europe, South Africa and the U.S.A.

Her keen interest in plants extends from those in her Northamptonshire garden to the abundant flora of the Cape, South Africa. Combining careful observation of plants and their habit with the technical and artistic skills required, she is able to capture both botanical accuracy and beauty.

Each print is signed and numbered from the edition of just 95 copies by the artist. Printed on soft textured 315 gsm watercolour paper. Supplied with a guarantee certificate and mounted in deep bevel antique white board.

The Plant School at Chelsea Flower Show 2008

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Rosemary Campbell-Preston will be representing The Plant School and Capital Gardens at the RHS's Chelsea Flower Show 2008. Find us at stand EA 72.

For more information on Chelsea visit www.rhs.org.uk/chelsea