RHS certificate

hello, i've just started the RHS certificate and i was wondering if anyone else in the 'gardening' group has done it / is doing the it / contemplating it also?

What is RHS?

I'm sorry, I'm new to the group and I think I should have read a few of the other threads first before posting, there are a lot of people from all over the world and I should have explained myself better. It's the Royal Horticultural Society, they run courses for wannabe gardeners / keen amateurs / complete novices (like me!). I'm just starting their first course (confusingly called the certificate level 2) and it's heady stuff already! i'm being simultaneously blinded and baffled by gardening science!!

No problem yosarian -- welcome to the group! When I realized you were in the UK I guessed at what RHS was and I was right! It sounds like a wonderful program. We have Master Gardener courses here in the States but I don't have any idea what it entails. Good luck. Hopefully someone here can answer your questions.

thanks teelgee, the moral support is very much appreciated. i've just been admiring the pictures people have posting in some earlier threads, i think i have come to the right place

Welcome to the Gardening Group.
Hope you enjoy the RHS Hort Cert, I studied Horticulture in Australia in the 70's and have been a member of the RHS since then enjoy the magazine even if it's all out of season for us. I will not be much help to you with your English based course work.
Have fun -at times you will think "am I having fun ?" as you sit doing assignments. Botany was like that now I find it's possibly the most useful thing I learnt as can often work out plant that I have never seen before with a little help from books.

thanks bikebear, i'm still riding the crest of early optimism right now and enjoying getting stuck in but i think it's going to be a long road for me :)

I completed the Master Gardener program in Alaska. It is a very informative and enriching program. I don't know how it compares to the RHS.