Workshops and Demonstrations

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. 

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.

Simplicity is the key to these new slim quick-to-produce troughs. Lightweight and moveable.

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.

Come and find out  how to encourage those hard-to-start seeds to germinate.

The Floral Art Group invite all children - boys & girls (& parents too).

Anybody & everybody can come along to create buttonholes (or boutonniers) with fresh flowers & foliage freshly picked from the garden.  

It's Springtime - time to share this fun tradition - of sharing & wearing buttonholes & posies - organic & sweet - whimsical or rustic.

Everything provided. No booking 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. 

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.

Come and join Anita from Growing Kiwi Gardeners for a seed sowing workshop. Suitable for children of all ages. Older children will make their own seed pots from newspaper, and younger children will sow their seeds into repurposed yoghurt pots. Anita has been running a hands-on gardening programme in early childhood centres since 2018 and has a passion for encouraging children to grow their own food. No booking required.

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

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

The Cedar Glades of Middle Tennessee 

Travel not far east of Nashville, Tennessee, to a unique ecosystem where limestone is found very close to the soil surface or at the surface withno soil above. This fragile ecosystem supports highly specialized plantspecies, many of which exist nowhere else in the world