Garden Placements

Ten-week garden placement opportunities for horticultural students

Working with referred beneficiaries, community volunteers, support volunteers and the general public, we create and care for multiple gardens, a plant nursery, street tree pits and planters, a meadow strip and a community orchard in Homerton, Hackney. We also developing a new 1600 m2 garden.

With a focus on organic, sustainable and wildlife-promoting practices, the gardens showcase what can be done in urban areas with creative and efficient use of small spaces, rain water harvesting and solar-powered irrigation systems, creating habitats and fostering wildlife, composting, and on-going experimentation with plants suited for different conditions.

The garden placement is a chance for those studying and/or interested in horticulture to put skills into practise. Some of the interests Core Landscapes is particularly suited for include:

• Organic and sustainable gardening practices
• Social and Therapeutic horticulture
• Urban gardening
• Rain water harvesting and solar-powered irrigation systems
• Propagation skills – from seed sowing to different types of cuttings and division
• Year-round food growing
• Container growing
• Homemade fertilisers – liquid feeds, wormery, compost, leaf-mould
• Incorporating and welcoming ‘weeds’ into the garden
• Natural pest and disease control: Learning from nature
• Plant Design: what looks effective together and why
• Wildflowers and their benefits
• Culinary and medicinal herbs
• Seed saving
• Pruning

Placement opportunities all year round on Tuesdays. To register your interest or to find out more, please contact garden@corearts.co.uk or 07585 770868.