Lee Burkhill: Award Winning Designer & BBC 1's Garden Rescue Presenters Official Blog
Garden Ninja will help you turn your garden into an awesome refuge. Creating a space for you, wildlife, beauty and relaxation. My names Lee Burkhill and I'm the Garden Ninja. Award winning garden designer and TV presenter on Garden Rescue. So grab a brew, and begin your journey to becoming an awesome gardener!
There's no time to waste; let me, Lee Burkhill, show you how to use this site to go from zero to Garden Ninja in a matter of helpful guides and gardening videos. If you want to become a fantastic gardener, then let me help train you at your own pace! I'm an award-winning garden designer from Liverpool and a presenter on BBC1's Garden Rescue.
My mission is simple: to educate and inspire as many new gardeners as possible regardless of budget, background, location or experience. This site is for everyone to develop and become awesome Garden Ninjas.
1. The Garden Ninja Blog
The blog is where you have started your gardening journey! This blog features hundreds of garden design and garden troubleshooting guides, all written by Lee Burkhill - the Garden Ninja. Packed full of gardening help, advice and hands-on experience from beginner to pro these gardening guides cover all aspects of gardening.
Helpfully laid out into different categories and seasons, this section of the gardening website will help explain how to become a boss of gardening and design tasks.
Have you got a specific or unusual gardening question to which you can't find the answer?
Join us in the Gardening forum, where you can ask the Garden Ninja community. Run by thousands of pro-Garden Ninjas' this is the space where you can ask any garden-related question and even upload pictures. With thousands of members, this forum is the place to connect with other Garden Ninjas and get FREE tailored gardening advice.
Let the Garden Ninja community help you, or jump in yourself to provide your advice to others!
If you're keen to set your garden apart from your neighbours, then training as a garden designer can help you take your skills to the next level. Online garden courses can boost your knowledge and are a cost-effective way to become an amazing gardener.
Even if you're an absolute beginner in the world of gardening or you want to be the next award-winning designer, these e-courses in design and horticulture are for you! Study online with the Garden Ninja to help increase your gardening skills, design flare and plant knowledge with my self paced courses.
Each online gardening course features the following benefits for students:
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Taught by Award Winning Lee Burkhill
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Garden Design Examples for Small Gardens: 30 Design Templates & Planting Plans
Garden Design Examples for Small Gardens: 30 Design Templates & Planting Plans: In this online gardening course, I'll walk you through 30 fantastic garden designs, explaining the logic behind the layout, the plant choices, and take-home tips for applying them in your own garden.
Weekend Garden Makeover: A Crash Course in Design for Beginners
Learn how to transform and design your own garden with Lee Burkhills crash course in garden design. Over 5 hours Lee will teach you how to design your own dream garden. Featuring practical design examples, planting ideas and video guides. Learn how to design your garden in one weekend!
Garden Design for Beginners: Create Your Dream Garden in Just 4 Weeks
Garden Design for Beginners Online Course: If you want to make the career jump to becoming a garden designer or to learn how to design your own garden, this is the beginner course for you. Join me, Lee Burkhill, an award-winning garden designer, as I train you in the art of beautiful garden design.
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I had a fantastic 1-hour garden consultation with Lee! I had a good vision in my head beforehand, but with Lee’s help, I was able to prioritise and make decisions about what would be most suitable for my space. In such a short time, I learned so much. I had plenty of ideas, and Lee was incredibly helpful in narrowing them down and guiding me towards what I truly wanted. He shared so much valuable theory and knowledge, which was exactly what I needed. By the end of the call, I felt fully equipped with a clear vision and ready to dive into my garden project. We also discussed purchasing courses, and Lee suggested the one that would be best suited to me. I’m so excited to get started! I highly recommend reaching out to Lee – I know I would have made a lot of mistakes without his guidance. Save the money and invest in this consultation!
Jim Simmonds
2025-06-03
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I love Lee's style, help and the fact he is always happy to share his knowledge. No other expert does this so willingly. Love all the videos tutorials too which is such a help and such a generous thing to do - thank you Lee.
Val Smith
2025-05-14
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I had a one-hour consultation with Lee and during that time he gave me loads of creative ideas and advice for the re-design of my garden which I had been struggling to sort out. He was engaging, knowledgable and informative and followed up with lots of useful info on email afterwards. Thank you for the inspiration and can't wait to get started....sorry for the black screen you had to look at due to my technical incompetence..hopefully my gardening skills will be better!!
Sarah Howling
2025-05-02
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We had a one-hour consultation with Lee and it was brilliant. He is as warm, inspirational, knowledgeable, and funny as he is on the TV. We had loads of questions and Lee answered them all and we left with a really clear plan of what to do.
Lee followed up the next day with lots of resources and the sketched out plan of our garden that he drew when we were online. I can't recommend Lee or the one-hour consultation enough. Thanks, Lee!
caroline barnes
2025-04-06
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The hour we spent with Lee was extremely valuable and helpful. He was friendly, constructive, knowledgeable and genuinely interested in our project. Lots of great ideas and tips - we can’t wait to get started. Would absolutely recommend.
John Barnes
2025-03-27
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Very helpful and genuinely interested in helping with our project. Very worthwhile investment of both time and money.
Sue Prior
2025-03-25
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So engaging and keep learning more about horticulture + hope to continue doing so. Thanks
Joanna Strand
2025-03-15
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We had a fantastic troubleshooting hour with Lee. He gave us so many ideas and lots of advice and useful principles to use when making changes to our garden, as well as lots of info by email afterwards. We’re now feeling excited about our garden again!
Sharon Harper
2025-02-25
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Great inspiring videos. Easy to follow and makes me want to get outside! Thank you
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