Indoor Plants & Gardens Workshop

Bring the outdoors in with our gardening short courses in Sydney!

Transform your living space into a lush oasis with our Indoor Plants and Gardens course. Discover a wonderful variety of indoor plants, from lush foliage plants that add tranquility to your home, to vibrant flowering varieties that bring colour and natural fragrance. Explore climbing and trailing plants that create elegant cascades and dynamic vertical growth, enhancing the beauty of any room.

Learn essential care techniques to keep your plants healthy and flourishing. We’ll cover efficient watering, fertilising, and pruning practices that ensure your plants remain vibrant and robust. You’ll also evaluate which plants are best suited for your space by considering their light requirements, helping you find the perfect position for each one to thrive.

As your plants grow, embrace long-term care with confidence. Master the art of re-potting to give your plants the space they need to flourish, and learn how to troubleshoot common health issues, identifying early signs of trouble to maintain their well-being.

Finally, let your creativity shine by styling your indoor spaces, incorporating green elements. Discover how to blend different plants for harmonious arrangements and design stunning displays that bring fresh energy to your home. Join us and elevate your indoor environment with vibrant greenery!

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Indoor Plants & Gardens course, you should be able to:

• Implement effective plant care techniques
• Evaluate light requirements for optimal plant health
• Position plants effectively to maximise growth and visual impact
• Troubleshoot common plant health issues
• Design and style indoor green spaces creatively
• Create a vibrant and aesthetically pleasing living space

Course content

What will be covered in this Indoor Plants & Gardens course?

Practicals, Hands-On Activities & Demonstrations

• Immersion soaking
• Re-potting plants
• Potting up plants
• Water propagation / transplants
• Stem propagation / root pruning 
• Pruning indoor plants

Types, shapes and sizes of indoor plants:

• Foliage plants
• Flowering plants
• Climbing and trailing plants

Position and location:

• Evaluating the right plants for the right room spaces
• The quantity and quality of available light
• Finding the perfect positioning for indoor plants in your space

Plant maintenance

• Simple, sensible, reliable growing techniques
• Practical methods for healthy maintenance
• Watering, fertilising and pruning

Longer-term care and maintenance

• Re-potting plants – with skill and confidence
• Troubleshooting plant health issues – what to look for
• Organic pest control

Stylising your indoor green spaces

• Blending plants together 
• Decorating with plants
• Creating plant arrangements that complement each other

Intended audience

Who is this Indoor Plants & Gardens course for?

This course is for:

• Plant-lovers who have lived experiences of disappointment with keeping and maintaining healthy thriving indoor plants
• Gardening enthusiasts who want to learn fundamental indoor gardening techniques, access insider tips, troubleshoot common problems and bust some common myths.

Practical sessions vary with the time of year, the weather, the availability of gardens, and may take place in a classroom environment.

Please note- this course does not contain horticultural advice on: 

• Pest or disease identification
• Pest or disease management
• Use of chemical treatments for plants.

Specific plant selection advice is available from your local horticulturist to help with plant requirements for your specific situation.  Your specific local area plant species are not covered in this course. 

Course venue

Rozelle Campus

2A Gordon Street, Rozelle NSW 2039 (corner of Gordon St & Victoria Rd in the grounds of St. Joseph's Church)

Course materials

What to bring to class:

• A notepad and pen, or tablet/phone, to take notes
• Gardening gloves
• A face mask (to protect against potential potting mix/garden soil bacteria such as Legionella)

Optional - students may also wish to bring:

• One or two of your own plants to pot up or re-pot, or propagate or prune. If you are potting or re-potting your plant(s), please also bring a small bag of potting mix (the College can supply pots)

And/or

• One or two of your own plants for discussion on watering, feeding or growing issues