Chris has extensive gardening experience that spans many years and many locations. After training at the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh, he spent time working in Africa and Japan, before returning to the UK in 1998 as Higher Botanical Horticulturalist at Kew Gardens and as Head Gardener at Westminster Abbey. Chris also held the highly sought-after position of BBC Blue Peter gardener for nine years, where he got to utter the line: "here’s one I made earlier" on numerous occasions!
Small Spaces, Big Ideas: Organic Growing Indoors & Out
with Chris Collins
This event will take place on 26 March 2025 10:00
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Small Spaces, Big Ideas: Organic Growing Indoors & Out
with Chris Collins
This event will take place on 26 March 2025 10:00
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Are you looking to turn your library spaces greener? Want to make the most of your indoor spaces?
Join us for this webinar with Chris Collins from Garden Organic, a charity that promotes organic gardening and composting, citizen science and seed conservation through their Heritage Seed Library. Chris will demonstrate how productive and biodiverse a garden can be - regardless of its size. Big ideas can turn any location into a space for organic growing and a creative approach opens up a wealth of growing opportunities both indoors and outside.
Gaps in paving can be used to grow herbs such as thyme. Wall crevices can be planted with ferns, and sedums will love a shed roof. Utilising vertical growing spaces with hanging planters, guttering or climbers will not only provide you with more growing space, but lead the eye skyward, soften and disguise boundaries, and create the illusion of space.
As well as providing a tasty harvest of food crops for you, your small growing spaces can create valuable micro-climates and havens for wildlife, creating corridors of beneficial biodiversity across built-up areas. Chris will share practical advice and tips on how to make the most of even the smallest spaces, how to get started and how grow and nurture your indoor plants.