The founder and principal at the Cotswold Gardening School will be one of the guest speakers at an open day being held this month  at Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford.

Caroline Tatham will host a talk entitled ‘From Wyevale to Highgrove’ on Thursday, June 30. She has put together a slide show covering the designing, building and planting of the Festival Gardens and celebrity stage at RHS Malvern Spring and Autumn Shows.

“I will also include examples of using Wyevale plants for large scale private client work in both renovation of historic gardens and the creation of new borders on a large scale,” she said. “I will cover the exciting process of designing, building and planting the speakers stage for this year’s Highgrove Garden Festival.”

Caroline is a qualified lecturer with many years’ experience teaching professional garden design and planting design as well as practical horticulture. She graduated as top student from the English Gardening School in London and was runner up for a Society of Garden Designers Student Award that year. Caroline has also taught and now externally assesses student work at The English Gardening School.

She is also a well-recognised garden and planting designer, who runs Cotswold Garden Design. She has mentored aspiring garden designers in the Festival Show Garden category at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival.

Caroline has a number of awards to her name, including a collaboration at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and building the Celebrity Stage at RHS Malvern Autumn and Spring Shows.