Understanding Weather for Gardeners – Master Class
To enable us to best design and grow our green spaces, gardening in a changing climate requires a robust weather & climate understanding. This master class will help you join the dots between large-scale climate patterns (like La Niña & El Niño) and our daily weather & gardening lives. Weaving together key weather principles with topics like annual rainfall and topography, frost and drought, this session will equip gardeners with a practical weather knowledge foundation for their growing endeavours.
Please Note:
- This class will draw on Victoria and Melbourne as key location examples, however the principles will be the same for most gardeners in South-East Australia (roughly between Adelaide and Sydney, and not too far inland).
- If you are unable to attend the live online class, a recording will be available to watch for five days following the session. Please purchase a ticket prior to the class date to access the recording.
Presenter: Jeremy Prentice
Born in a time when Victoria was still commonly referred to as the Garden State, Jeremy has long been fascinated with the lives of our botanical friends. With experience ranging from edible landscaping to tropical glasshouse curation, hunting Nepenthes sp. and Rafflesia sp. (aka photographing), to stewarding vegetative giants like Victoria sp. and Amorphophallus titanum, Jeremy has been working and growing in horticulture for a number of decades. These days he is exploring the wondrous complexity of understanding our weather and climate patterns, and finding unique and enjoyable ways to share those stories with willing ears.
Enter the Understanding Weather (UW) courses: designed as applied weather knowledge to enrich our daily lives, each tailored version draws on the same principles, with the content crafted to suit the learners’ niche – be it for Gardeners (UW for Gardeners), Lovers (UW.4.LVRS), or the deeply committed WeatherNurd (our year-long multisession course).
Friends of SGA receive a 15% discount on all Master Classes. You can become a Friend of SGA here.