Gardening Make & Take Workshops
A container gardening workshop led by Blooming Experts. Create your own 12 inch urn insert filled to the brim with 9 cool hardy spring plants, branches, soil, moss in a fibre pot. Measures 30 inches high.
A Make & Take Container Gardening Workshop guided by experts. Using a 12" fibre pot, create a welcoming drop pot filled with evergreens, berries and boughs. You will choose your own embellishments!
Afternoon Workshop is 2 to 3:30 ish or Evening Workshop is 7 to 8:30 ish
This delightful potted Bulb Garden will provide pleasure as it blooms over weeks. A square tin bucket you will pot up with 3 potted bulbs (pink tulip, purple hyacinth and yellow daffodil),. Create a pussy willow heart support to keep the bulbs from flopping when they bloom. Embellish with a spray of hears and berries and reindeer moss. Water it twice a week.
One hour
Learn about the detoxifying and beautifying benefits of the Top Ten Oxygenating houseplants for your home. This Planterior workshop focuses on tropical plants as beautifully decorative accessories. We will help you learn how to choose the beautifiers that keep you in touch with nature while providing health-filled benefits for any room; that will also beautify the room. . Learn how to choose plants for better sleeping, better breathing, pet friendly, etc. Choose your own 4” oxygenating plant and a matching cachepot and pot it up on the spot. Includes our Planterior Indoor Gardening Booklet.
7 pm
Make and Take Container Gardening workshop taught by experts. Pot up your own 12" fibre drop pot, lushly planted with summer annuals for your sun exposure. You will have thrillers, fillers and spillers to give lots of height and heft to your pot. You will be able to pick and choose based on your colour preferences and sun exposure
One hour
This keepsake planter can be refilled each year. Four types of winter greens and frost proof berries in floral foam. 36 inches x 24 inches.
This breath of spring Potted Garden is potted up in a lined, refillable upcycled wood box in rectangle or heart shape (your choice). This tabletop garden includes four 4-inch potted bulbs (blue muscari, yellow mini-daffodil, pink tulip, purple hyacinth). It is `fenced`with pussy willow branches and binding wire. Soil is camouflaged with reindeer moss. or Spring embellishments too! Water twice a week. Watch it bloom. Lasts for several weeks; then simple to replenish again as we will have the bulbs on hand in our cooler.
Takes one hour
Aspiring mixologist? Love Tea? Want to grow your own Salsa? Our indoor herb gardens just need a sunny window for the months of March and April and then can be popped outdoors after Victoria Day. Each choice comes with five herbs.
The box is 20 inches long, 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep. Made from upcycled wood
One hour. Includes our Herb Gardening Booklet
Expert instruction to create your own generously-filled 12 inch Harvest Drop Pot; ready to pop into your urn. Your choice of different types of vertical, filler and trailing plants to match your preferred colour scheme.
One hour
Make either a Gnome Door Swag or a Gnome Winter Urn.
Learn the fundamentals to help your houseplants thrive. Understanding soil, light and hydration, pot up three plants, including succulents, of your choice in the cachepots of your choice to match the needs of your home or office. Receive our Planterior Booklet to help you keep them happy. Fun and informative.
One hour
Paperwhites, Amaryllis and Waxed Amaryllis, Forced Hyacinth, Christmas Cactus...everything except Poinsettias! Kate will show you how to force bulbs to bloom just in time for the Holidays and to care for your blooming holiday plants. Give yourself time after the demo to pot up!
Then use your $25 fee as a credit towards potting up the Blooming Holiday Plants of your choice.