COURSES

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

For bookings please contact education@botanic.cam.ac.uk

Botanical watercolour courses run by Reinhild Raistrick SBA Fellow

Reinhild has been teaching at the Botanic Gardens since 2010. She was one of the first tutors leading botanical painting workshops. Courses take place in a beautiful purpose built classroom  at Brookside which serves as a centre for all educational workshops. The Garden provides students with amazing plants to work with and a wonderful setting in which to be creative.

Some of the three-day courses in the past have included : Illustrating Mountain and Alpine Plants; Glasshouse Exotics, including orchids; Herbaceous Plants; Fritillaries and Dwarf Tulips from the Garden’s National collections;  Illustrating Conifer Cones; Illustrating Exotic Seed Heads and Capsules;  A Medley of Stems and popular Fungi courses.

Illustrating Tulips 8-9th April 2025 - Cambridge Botanic Gardens

Illustrating Fruit, Berries and Seedheads 9-10th September - Cambridge Botanic Gardens

Apply to:education@botanic.cam.ac.uk

Fullers Mill Garden

West Stow, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP28 6HD

Contact no: 01284 72888 Email: fullersmillgarden@perennial.org.uk

Two or three day courses courses in this beautiful garden set in a wood by a lakeside.

Some of the past courses have been : Illustrating Snowdrops and Aconites; Spring Flowers; Summer Booms; Lilies from the renowned collection; Autumn Seed Heads and Autumn Fruit from some of the more unusual trees in the garden.

Summer Blooms at Fullers Mill 16th - 18th June 2025

Bright Autumn Leaves and Berries 1st - 2nd September 2025