Flower Growing Workshops — Bloom Sheffield

We are so excited to announce the launch of our new education programme in collaboration with Sheffield Botanical Gardens. It is a schedule of seasonal horticulture and floristry workshops from March to October to help you get the most from your garden. Each session will be practical and hands-on and will allow you to get stuck in. The workshops will be held at the Dorothy Fox Education centre in Sheffield Botanical Gardens. As always, all the money we raise from these workshops will go towards delivering our therapeutic horticulture sessions for women in Sheffield. So, not only will you learn loads and have a fun time, but you will also be helping lots of women in your community. So, if you have a small courtyard, a huge garden or 3 acres of land to play with, come and learn about growing flowers and using them to create beautiful things.

We have worked so hard to create a fun and varied course, so we hope you can join us. The course involves a mixture of gardening and floristry workshops to help you learn and build confidence in growing flowers.

You can book the sessions individually, or as a 6 week whole.

The monthly break down is as follows:

March - Get To Know Your Flowers

This session will help you identify the aims of your growing space and introduce you to the main plants and flowers that you can grow.

April - Sowing Seeds and Taking Cuttings

Practising different methods of seed sowing and prepare and producing plant cuttings as a method of multiplication.

June - Cutting, Conditional and Arranging

We will be teaching you how to cut flowers correctly and how to condition the stems. You will also be creating a hand-tied bouquet with guidance and tutorage from our in-house florist.

July - How To Create a Vase Arrangement

We will teach you how to create vase arrangements that can be used in any vase that you have at home.

August - Seed Saving and Drying Flowers

We will be learning all about different techniques or drying flowers and how to save seeds. This session will be focused around biodiversity and growing an environmentally friendly garden.