The Scented Garden

Expert florist, flower grower at Doddington Hall and RHS flower teacher Dr Rachel Petheram teaches you how to choose flowers and plants for fragrance and how to design a scented garden. You'll learn how to grow flowers and plants for scent - whether scenting your garden, using plant fragrance for psychological benefit or for cut flowers and flower arrangements. She'll show you how to select and combine scented flowers, flowering shrubs and plants, and which plants to choose for fragrance in your garden space during day and night. Scent has a powerful effect on emotion and mood and a fragrant garden can be a means to health, wellbeing and pleasure. This course covers how we perceive scent and how it can directly affect not only our mood but our physiology. This knowledge can then can be used to good effect in our gardens. If we want somewhere to relax and de-stress or if we want an outside work space where we can be refreshed and invigorated, then there is a plant to fill the fragrance brief. However, we often miss the effect of fragrance in our gardens because it is such a fleeting, ethereal thing so we need to make sure that our gardens are designed to maximise the beneficial effects of this lovely sense. You are encouraged through the suggested assignments to design your own fragrant space tailored to your own requirements and to share your experience along the way. You'll learn: the science and benefits of scent how scent works designing a scent garden developing garden structures to maximise scent choosing scented plants and flowers propagating plants keeping your plants and flowers healthy Suitable for gardeners and florists of all abilities. Time to complete this scented garden course: Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 14 hours 40 minutes to complete including: Video lessons: 2 hours 40 minutes in total Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson Assignment: at least 2 hours per lesson Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson The course includes: On-demand video lessons - presented by Dr Rachel Petheram lifetime access to the video, notes and interactive class flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like downloadable lesson notes practical (optional) garden design and fragrance based projects access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop small interactive online classroom chat online to students from around the world Ready to get started? Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Rachel on your plant choices and garden plans. Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.