These classrooms don't contain notes or handouts for the syllabus;they are a space for students.

With the re-structuring of the RHS website in April 2013, there is a strong possibility that the forums on the My Garden area will disappear. These were helpful to some people studying through distance learning, as well as to RHS members with general plant identification queries, and other problems which could be solved by asking other experienced gardeners rather than 'Experts'.

If you aren't a habitual Facebook user you may not want to get involved in some of the online alternatives to meet other RHS students -  so we hope you will think about using this space to communicate with our other students -  who are also trying to make sense of the handouts, work through past papers, and decide if it's worth planting out their potatoes yet!

One area has been set up for level 2 students, and another for level 3; your tutor can help if you have general queries you want to raise.

You will all be enrolled in the chat areas - did you know that if you go into your user profile settings you can get your 'internal' emails redirected to any other account of your choice, so you don't have to be logged in to see email ( only to answer it)?

All Level 3 students for the Principles of Horticulture ( that's the Plant Growth Certificate and the Garden Planning Certificate) have access to this area so that they can communicate with fellow students  (and their tutor) on a more general basis.

I know Jenny's hoping to use this space to share stuff which she thinks may be relevant or interesting  to all of you: I hope you will find it useful  to have somewhere to air your own views, questions or thoughts  as well.

All Level 2 students for the Principles of Horticulture ( that's the Plant Growth Certificate and the Garden Planning Certificate) have access to this area so that they can communicate with fellow students  (and their tutor) on a more general basis.

If you want to talk about topics on the course and discuss areas you are having difficulty with, or if you just want to see if anyone has managed to grow Meconopsis from seed or plant their potatoes yet in this cold and miserable UK spring, please do.

You  can upload pictures (2Mb max) if you want to share them for comments or assistance with identification.

I've put up a few to start off with.