If it was a short tutorial, I might be interested in something on pruning or on improving soil quality. I doubt I'd be interested in anything longer or more in depth because, for me at least, gardening is something to be learned by doing (disasterous mistakes & all), not by sitting in a classroom.

I'm always interested in garden design, but so very few classes on that subject have been offered in Austin. I drove to Dallas (4 hours) for a design class once, given by a landscape architect and writer. I wish Austin offered more of that sort of thing, but it's mostly beginner's classes.

It would depend upon both the program content and the lecturer/instructor. Were it about native plants and one of the local gurus was speaking, yeah, I might take the class! Does that help?

As a Master Gardener, I'm continually getting pamphlets in the mail from Iowa State University about gardening/horticulture classes. I never go because I'm lazy.

Definitely something on design. Or something for the advanced gardener.

I've just read your previous post about Thyme.

I can't get it to grow where I live.

I'm not doing well with herbs; whether ones traditional in an English garden or new to it.

But I grew herbs where I used to live - no trouble.

So, I'd like to go to a class with a list of plants which I like but which don't like my current garden and be taught parallels . . . ok . . . that particular thyme won't grow here . . . but this one will. Or . . . people who like thyme very often also like . . . .

That kind of thing.

And I'd like all of us in the class to have a square yard bed each to grow things in, all near each other - and the tutor would help each student excel in growing something different from the next one along.

And these square yards would be somewhere easily accesible, with lots of room for more to be added as more students joined . . . and we'd keep looking after our one square yards after we'd left the course so, over the years, a great long row of tiny demonstration gardens would develop for future students and members of the public to see.

Lucy