Caroline Tatham is the founder and Principal of The Cotswold Gardening School. She is a qualified lecturer with many years experience teaching professional garden design and planting design as well as practical horticulture.
She graduated as top student from the highly regarded English Gardening School in London and was runner up for a Society of Garden Designers Student Award that year. Caroline has also taught and now externally assesses student work at The English Gardening School.
Caroline is also a well-recognised garden and planting designer who runs Cotswold Garden Design. She has mentored aspiring garden designers in the Festival Show Garden category at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival. She has a number of awards to her name, including a collaboration at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and building the Celebrity Stage at RHS Malvern Autumn and Spring Shows.
Her aptitude for garden design has also shot her to stardom on the television where she built a show garden for the Eden Project in Cornwall, which featured on the TV series ‘A Garden for Eden’.
Last year she was delighted to be invited to provide floristry demonstrations for an event at the Royal Garden at Highgrove and Caroline was then further thrilled to be asked to design and build the stages at this year's Highgrove Gardens Celebrated and has drawn her inspiration from the beauty of the gardens themselves.
Caroline is lead tutor mainly on the one year diploma courses, although she will be involved in the ten week courses, supporting the main tutors and assessing work. All courses at the school have been written by Caroline and are taught using her methods with real life examples from her busy garden design practice.