Courses & Workshops
For professional courses and workshops on garden design and horticulture, a range of options are available, led by trained facilitators.
Garden Design Course – Plants, Place and Purpose – Creating Beautiful Spaces for our Natural and Cultural Heritage
Can you imagine a garden where the plants have stories, beyond visual beauty. Being in such a garden, ticks so many boxes for our appreciation of life! This unique course has been created to ensure the participants are designing spaces that really connect to the things they value – our cultural and natural heritage. The usual principles and elements of garden and planting design are examined, of course. However, participants will gain knowledge of how design can reflect their soul. They can learn how to create spaces that concentrate on attracting pollinators; choose plants and materials that embrace cultural heritage; or plants that have unique stories etc. Click here for the course specification
The fundamental reason for the creation of this new course is to ensure participants can value the beauty of designed spaces and recognize the many other layers of plant appreciation. We are designing for beauty but also for our natural and cultural heritage.
We will be spending a lot of time in the garden and this course is wheelchair accessible.
The individual modules follow:
Participants taking part in all 8 weeks will receive a Certificate of Completion.
It is highly recommended, but not vital, that you bring a mobile device (cell phone or laptop/tablet) and download Canva for the creation of concept boards.
See the bottom of this page for payment details for any available design and practical horticulture workshops. For the symposium, tea, yoga, BERP programmes, wellness, clay and basket-making programmes, see flyers for details.
Pottery with Ronaldo Wiltshire 235-4244, Motions of Clay
After over a decade of creating and teaching in London, Ronaldo has returned home to share his passion for clay, mindfulness, and artistic expression. In this calming workshop, participants will work with local Barbadian clay.
The workshops offer a peaceful space for reflection, self-expression, and connection with nature and an opportunity to explore the tactile joy of clay surrounded by the lush beauty of Andromeda Gardens.
Paint & Sip with Eden Weekes of Sun Splash Art Studio 285-2881
Yoga with Nicole 240-3572
Other Design Workshops with Sharon 248-0190
Introduction to Garden Design (5 weeks, One Day per Week – Fridays). Principals, Planting Design, Selected Garden Designers, Garden Styles and more. This is a theoretical and practical course, including outdoor activities and basic drawing.
Plants and Planting Design (2 days, consecutive Fridays OR a weekend as shown in the flyer). Learn how to create exciting and workable planting schemes for your garden, or for others. This is a theoretical and practical course, including outdoor activities and basic drawing.
How to Use Colour in Your Garden (One Day) – To equip participants with a workable knowledge of colour theory, to enable them to appreciate the use of colour within the garden. To help them understand how to use the colour wheel to create colour schemes that work. This is a theoretical and practical course, including outdoor activities and basic drawing.
All participants will get course information sent via email or WhatsApp. Paper and other materials will be provided.
BERP – Wonderful Workshops
Last Sunday of Every Month
Practical Horticulture 1/2 Day Workshops BD$60
Dr Richard Graham’s workshops are fabulously informative, with a bit of humour! Both these workshops are about propagation, with lots of hands-on activities, including tasks in the gorgeous Andromeda. There are lots of opportunities for questions during the workshops as well as a Q&A session at the end of each session.
For the Pests And Diseases workshop, you can bring in your own plant material for a little bit of a plant clinic towards the end of the session. The emphasis is on organic controls. The composting workshop will provide wonderful surprises about how easy it can be to improve your soil and grow your plants successfully.
Jeff’s workshops contain lots of information and wheelbarrows full of humour, so you learn while you laugh. Lots of giveaways, too! The new workshop on Heliconia will provide details about the different types of these wonderful tropical plants, most of which are native to tropical America.
Registration Information For Design and Practical Horticulture Workshops Only.
Register by making payment in advance in person (cash or card) at Andromeda Botanic Gardens, Bathsheba, St Joseph. WhatsApp Message 248-0190 and let Sharon know you’re coming. Or pay via online banking, and message Sharon with your full name. This completes registration.
For online payments, please put the workshop name as the reference
CIBC Caribbean (First Caribbean Intl Bank), Oistins Branch
Account Name Passiflora Ltd, Address New Castle New Road, St John
Chequing Account Number 1001126238
Andromeda Botanic Gardens is owned by the Barbados National Trust and managed independently by the lease-owner Passiflora Ltd. One of Passiflora Ltd.’s aims is to provide quality education and training in garden design, horticulture and aspects of ethnobotany.