Growing and Training Apples and Pears

Saturday 25 January & Saturday 9 August 2025 |10.30 – 16.00
Johanna Lausen-Higgins & Callum Carson | Beginner | 16 places | £150/135

Discover how to grow and train apple and pear trees to maximise the health and harvest of your crops. This two-day theoretical and practical course will help you to establish and maintain trained fruit for your garden with confidence through pruning techniques, creating espaliers, fans and cordons, variety selection and tree health.

This is an in-person course running at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Participants must be 16+

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Membership Discounts
You can enter the members discount code at checkout. This can found in your latest members’ newsletter/ Botanics magazine.

Short Course Gift Vouchers
If you have an RBGE gift voucher with a code beginning EDU or COV you may use this as a promotional code to apply the balance to the cost of the course.

Gift Options
After you have purchased your course, please call the office on 0131 248 2937 to discuss additional gift options (e.g. cards, personalised messages). Office open hours are Monday – Friday, 9:30 – 16:00.

If you have any questions about this course, you can contact us by email: education@rbge.org.uk