Letta Jones MA

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Letta Jones MA

Letta Jones MA, is a freelance Landscape Horticulturist who teaches Garden History and Horticulture for the KIngcombe Field and Farncombe Centres, South London Botanical Institute, and for the WEA. She lectured at Birkbeck and Capel Manor Colleges for 15 years.She specialises in amenity trees, medicinal plants and the history of public parks, from a botanical and contemporary perspective.

She has taught at Marlborough College Summer School since 2002, and will offer new courses at Earnley Concourse and Denman College in 2012. Her courses successfully combine illustrated theoretical studies in the classroom with practical and enjoyable trips to arboreta, parks and gardens. Identification of plants is included. She completed her MA at Birkbeck College in 2001 and the Schumacher College Certificate in Education for Sustainability in 2009.

Letta was a volunteer guide at the Chelsea Physic Garden for 17 years,where she orgainised their Medicinal Plants Summer Schools. She has been a Green Flag Parks Judge since 2008.

Below is a list of the courses that this tutor teaches.

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25 May 2012	Glorious Gardens to Delight	Letta Jones MA
14 Aug 2012	More Glorious Cotswold Gardens (3 nights)	Letta Jones MA

Other Courses That This Tutor Has Run

12 Aug 2011	In Praise of Trees	Letta Jones MA
9 Jul 2011	Herbs Plants with a Thousand Uses	Letta Jones MA
24 Jun 2011	More Cotswold Gardens to Delight (3 nights)	Letta Jones MA
29 Jul 2010	More Cotswold Gardens to Delight (3 nights)	Letta Jones MA
25 Jun 2010	Trees in Summer (3 nights)	Letta Jones MA
3 Apr 2010	The Plant Hunters: How Plants got to England	Letta Jones MA
31 Jul 2009	Cotswold Gardens to Delight (3 nights)	Letta Jones MA
3 Apr 2009	The Plant Hunters	Letta Jones MA
21 Sep 2008	Open Day Talk: Cotswold Plants & Gardens	Letta Jones MA
19 Sep 2008	Trees in Autumn	Letta Jones MA
19 Sep 2008	Trees in Autumn	Letta Jones MA
15 Aug 2008	Cotswold Gardens to Delight (3 days)	Letta Jones MA
6 Jul 2008	Demystifying Plant Names	Letta Jones MA
5 Jul 2008	Paxton, Plants and Parks	Letta Jones MA
4 Jul 2008	Healing Herbs Ancient and Modern- magic or medicine?	Letta Jones MA
25 Apr 2008	Trees in Spring	Letta Jones MA
17 Aug 2007	Cotswold Gardens to Delight	Letta Jones MA
12 Jan 2007	The Plant Hunters	Letta Jones MA
15 Sep 2006	Appreciating Trees	Letta Jones MA

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