Canterbury Horticultural Society Taster Workshops
45 minute sessions to inspire gardeners of all ages and abilities

Enjoy a selection of nature inspired crafts and activities for ages 0 – 10 years old. Adult supervision required.

Taking inspiration from her kitchen garden Caitlin will prepare a beautiful bouquet that’s fit for the dining room table. Fragrant and delicious, she will show you how to use ingredients you may not have thought of to design an edible bouquet. 

Learn how you can enhance and bring local plants into your own garden and across the wider neighbourhood – to provide the basic needs for richer wildlife and an ecologically functional and legible landscape.

This Spring discover the art of daffodil propagation and create your own new hybridized cross breeds with your home plants. Alternatively collect the seeds later in the season. Our visiting expert will explain all the elements of choosing parent plants, growing to flowering size and the uniqueness of each seed so you can expand your collection. 

Discover how easy it is to grow healthy plants from seed with the Southern Seed Exchange (SSE). 

Join members of the SSE for a concise session on the ins and outs of growing and saving your own seeds. The 45 minute demonstration will cover the basic principles of growing, isolation, harvesting, cleaning and saving seeds. 

Working alongside the CHS to promote Canterbury’s heritage seed cultivars they will include a short demonstration and practical where people get to take a 6 cell seed pot to take away.

Simplicity is the key to these new slim quick-to-produce troughs. Some troughs will be for sale and some with their first coat done so that the finished product is an hour away. Lightweight and moveable.

Use bulbs inventively in your garden.  A brief look at bulbs and what they need to thrive as putting them in the right place is the key. . Ever wanted a drift of snowdrops, or masses of trilliums under your woodland shrubs? Here is how to get them in quantity.

Using a few plants bought from the show a trough will be planted up using homemade rocks and a light mix. Tips and tricks for ensuring success.

Who doesn’t like adding good aesthetics to their space? Grafted cactus is a cute yet low-maintenance plant that is perfect to give your garden a much-needed lift. You can graft a cactus even if you are a beginner.

An informal talk about various rhododendrons, their use, stylings, what to plant with them and how to care for them.  Question and Answers.