Pruning Course: Old fruit trees

Pruning Course: Old fruit trees kicks off at Stanmer Park on Wednesday 6 January 2027, and it's a bit more than a one-off afternoon. It's a full course on pruning old fruit trees, split across four sessions: two online and two practical. The online parts let you get the theory sorted from home, and the practical ones put you out in the park with the trees themselves.

That's the core of it — the focus is on old fruit trees, which are a different beast from the young ones you'll find in a garden centre. They've got their own logic to them, and the course is built around working through that. The two online sessions cover the groundwork, and the two practical sessions are where you actually get your hands on the branches. It's a mix of learning the 'why' and then doing the 'how' in the open air.

Having it at Stanmer Park makes sense. It's one of Brighton's big green spaces, and the practical sessions happen right there on the grounds. You'll be working with real trees in a proper setting, not just talking about them in a classroom. The split between the online and practical parts means you can take the theory in at your own pace before you head out into the park to put it into practice.

So, it's a four-part course on pruning old fruit trees, with two online sessions and two practical ones at Stanmer Park, starting on Wednesday 6 January 2027.