Placements for September 2010

This years's placement opportunities will be announced on Friday 12th February. Full details will be made available on this site and will be advertised in Horticulture Week.

If you would like to register your interest please send an email to the Scheme Administrator Susan Rhodes: susanrhodes@rhs.org.uk. You will be sent the full list of placement gardens and an application form on the 1st day of the announcement, (12th February).

 The closing date is on Thursday the 4th March 2010.

The following gardens are hosting placements 2009.  

Bristol Botanic Garden

Developing new Botanic Garden with 4500 taxa and many unique collections particularly those illustrating evolution, plants from the world's Mediterranean climates, useful plants including a large Chinese medicinal herb collection and many rare and threatened plants to the Bristol area. Garden supported by a small (6) dedicated team of staff and a larger team of volunteers. Trainee will have access to our adult education programme.
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Castle Fraser, Aberdeenshire

Designed landscape of the last 17th and 18th century. The original work of Thomas White (1794) was followed by ‘natural style’ movement of the eighteenth century. Deep, south facing border designed by James Russell in 1959. Historic walled garden and woodland. National Trust of Scotland.
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Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

105 acres of garden developed over 400 years. Many areas still reflect the fashions of each century: 17th century London and Wise cascade, ‘Capability’ Brown landscaped woodland Park, Paxton rockeries and stunning orange borders and blue and white borders, terraces, display house, rose garden and old conservatory garden. Kitchen garden, sensory garden, pleached limes and serpentine beech hedges.
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Chelsea Physic Garden, London

A Historic Garden Grade 1. The garden was first established in 1673 as the first botanical grounds and training establishment to widen the knowledge of apothecaries of this time.
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The Eden Project, Cornwall

Begun in 2001, this project transformed a disused china clay quarry and now boasts three geodesic domes of tropical and dryland plantings. Extensive outdoor displays of spring and summer interest. Strong use of local varieties including fruit and vegetables. Spectacular educational themes throughout which attract huge visitor numbers. The Eden Project
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Hampton Court Palace, Surrey

Exciting and eclectic mixture of styles and tastes. Magnificent displays of bedding plants infilling knot gardens. There is a wilderness garden with a spring bulb display and the great Fountain Garden. The restored William lll Privy Garden is a unique example of the Baroque with parterres, cutwork, clipped yews and spring and summer displays of 17th century flowers. The Laburnum walk, great maze and the Great Vine all add significant interest. Historic Royal Palaces Trust
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Myddleton House, Enfield

A nineteenth century house with a garden which was made famous by the plantsman E A Bowles. It fell into decay and is being restored as an example of a twentieth century plantsman's garden.
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Ness Botanic Gardens, Cheshire

Garden began in 1898 when cotton magnet Bulley, began gardening with plants and seed collected by George Forrest. 60 acres protected by extensive shelter belts. Extensive Sorbus, azaleas, rhododenrons and heather collections. Charming pottager garden. Plenty of opportunity to study how a botanic garden manages its collections. University of Liverpool
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Pitmeddon, Aberdeenshire

Exhibits the taste of the 17th century garden-makers: Parterre designed to be viewed from above. Plenty of simple topiary and box hedging. Fine herbaceous borders, old fruit trees including fan and espalier. Extensive annual bedding provides a stunning display. National Trust of Scotland.
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Tregothnan Botanic Garden, Cornwall

The Tregothnan Botanic Garden is the largest historic garden in Cornwall. As a private botanic garden and arboretum, Tregothnan is unequalled - offering a diversity of plants and trees, rare collections, sweeping vistas and peaceful secluded groves.
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Trentham Estates, Staffordshire

The estate of Trentham Hall developed over several centuries: ‘Capability’ Brown re-landscaped the 750 acre park and in 1833 Charles Barry commissioned the Italian flower Garden. The lower part of this garden has been redesigned with perennials with the help of consultants Piet Oudolf, Dominic Cole and Tom Stuart-Smith. Formal gardens, perennial meadows and children’s model gardens provide a variety of horticultural experience. Trentham Leisure Ltd.
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Tresco Abbey, Scilly Isles

This 17 acre garden benefits from the Gulf Stream and grows a unique sub-tropical variety of plants including agaves, puyas, cacti, aeoniums and banksias. Set on a south-sloping hillside with horizontal walks, views slanting down to the sea. Tresco Abbey Trust
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Trewithen Gardens, Cornwall

30 acres of woodland which includes famous collections of magnolias, camellias and rhododendrons, all of tremendous maturity. Deep sunken garden contain tree ferns, acers and camellias. Walled garden laid out with a herb and rose garden and with herbaceous borders. Mr & Mrs Galsworth
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Wakehurst Place, Sussex

Lord Wakehurst began developing this garden in 1903. Fine collection of hardy plants arranged geographically display four National Collections – betulas, hypericums, nothofagus and skimmias. Unique Himalayan glade planted with species growing at over 3,000 meters in the Himalayas. Extensive water garden. Two walled gardens, one given to herbaceous plantings and one to bedding. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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