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September 2020
Grow Your Own Flowers
Do you dream of having flowers every day of the week, not just for special occasions? Come to Bowood house and spend the morning learning what you can grow in your own back garden for use as cut flowers. After lunch enjoy an inspiring tour of the private walled garden of Lord and Lady Lansdowne. Then spend the afternoon having a go yourself, with step by step guidance, at arranging grown and gathered material to make your own posy. You…
Find out more »Easy Bulbs for Spring Colour
Venue: Bowood House, Wilts Bulbs are an almost effortless way of achieving maximum colour for minimum investment. This full day workshop will explain how to plan bulb planting for both flower borders and containers, providing flowers from February to June. You will learn about some less well-known fuss free treasures as well as the daffodils and tulips we all know and love. We will also look at which winter bedding plants to use for your bulb containers to ensure you…
Find out more »Fail safe Plants
Venue: Bowood House, Wilts, Between us, we have designed and built over 100 gardens. On this half-day workshop we will spill the beans and reveal the plants that we rely on to work well in any garden. We will explain how understanding the six layers of planting that occur naturally in any English garden can help you design successful planting. The course looks at trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, climbers, bulbs and groundcover planting, suggesting reliable plants for each layer. We…
Find out more »Autumn posy Workshop
Spend a relaxing morning learning how to make a beautiful hand tied posy using beautiful Autumnal flowers plus seasonal delights like hips, haws, berries and seedheads. With step by step guidance you can take your time, crafting your own unique bouquet of seasonal blooms. You will learn our top tips for the spiral technique, widely used by professional florists but straightforward to master. This technique keeps your flowers in place when they are dropped into a vase. We also share…
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