Sustainable floristry demos and workshops

As our gardens and cut flower patches start to emerge from a very long, grey and wet winter (in our part of the UK) our thoughts can turn to cutting our precious crops, whether we grow for pleasure or profit. And, alongside that we might also be thinking about brushing up our knowledge and skills on how we can create sustainable flower arrangements with our treasure.

And that’s where we can help! Georgie has a brilliant timetable of sustainable floristry sessions coming up and I thought it was time to give them a newsletter all of their own!

A reminder about our sessions:

• Online demos are last around 90 minutes

• Online demos are always recorded, so if you can’t attend live you can still book and we send the recording out shortly after the session has taken place. You get to keep the recording for as long as you wish.

• Workshops and retreats at the farm include all materials, start at 10am and end around 4pm and include a fabulous farm shop lunch!

• Paid subscribers here on Substack get 10% discount on any workshop and demo bookings they make via the website, when using their special discount code.

Thursday 26th March - Online demo for paid subscribers 

Our paid substack subscribers (clubbers) will enjoy a living spring wreath demo, as one of their online club chats later this term (26th March). We try to include an online demo for clubbers each term. Another brilliant benefit of joining the club!

Online Demos

Tuesday 28th April The Bridal Party Flowers Demo

A detailed online session for people planning to create their own bridal party flowers, where Georgie will talk you through cutting and creating a handtied bride’s bouquet, a bridesmaid’s posy, and a buttonhole. This pairs well with The Prepping Wedding Flowers Demo and if you wanted to do both of these demos you can book the bundle at a discounted price.

Wednesday 29th April The Cutting and Conditioning Your Flowers Demo

Join Georgie for this demo and she’ll give you all her top tips for cutting and conditioning cut flowers and foliage successfully.

Tuesday 2nd June The Sustainable Floristry Trio of Demos - Day One

We've taken three of our popular flower arranging demos and bundled them together to create a full day online learning about these different elements of sustainable floristry. Each demo is available individually, but if you'd like to do all three you can book them here at a discounted price.

Tuesday 2nd June The Floral Tablescaping Demo

On this demo, Georgie will show how you can create stunning flower arrangements to decorate your wedding or event table, with no floral foam, just perfectly sustainable mechanics and fresh garden flowers.

Tuesday 2nd June The Big Urn Demo

If you want to create huge urns of flowers but don’t know where to start, this is the session for you. Join Georgie as she shows you what to cut from your garden, how many stems, and how to put those stems into water to make a fantastic, huge, urn arrangement.

Tuesday 2nd June The Flying Arch of Flowers Demo

On this demo, Georgie shows you how to create a stunning floral arch using beams and buckets and pieces of string as well as lovely flowers and foliage cut straight from her garden.

Wednesday 3rd June The Sustainable Floristry Trio of Demos - Day Two

This is another opportunity to book a bundle of 3 of our popular flower arrange demos for a discounted price. All the demos can also be booked individually, if you prefer.

Wednesday 3rd June The Flowers Crowns and Corsages Demo

In this session, Georgie will show you how to create exquisite flower crowns and elegant corsages, perfect for weddings, parties, festivals, or simply for the sheer delight of wearing flowers.

Wednesday 3rd June The Mossed Summer Wreath Demo

Join Georgie as she guides you step by step through the art of making a stunning mossed wreath the eco-friendly way, with no floral foam and no wire, just gorgeous homegrown materials.

Wednesday 3rd June The Broken Arch of Flowers Demo

Join Georgie for this session where she’ll demonstrate creating a fashionable broken floral arch for a wedding or even using only simple sustainable mechanics, fresh garden flowers and foliage, and no floral foam.

At the farm retreat - available as 1, 2 or all 3 days

Tuesday 16th, Wednesday 17th, Thursday 18th June The Eco Floristry Retreat (3 Days) hands on, at the farm

Release your inner garden florist at this glorious 1, 2 or 3 day retreat at Common Farm Flowers between Bruton and Wincanton in Somerset. You’ll have 3 acres of flowers from which to cut, whilst learning all about harvesting flowers, conditioning, and then creating with them. You’ll be giving yourself three days in which to do all this: time for yourself, time to nurture your creativity, time to learn how your passion for flowers needn’t cost the earth.

Or book the individual days that make up the retreat:

Tuesday 16th June The Eco Floristry Retreat Day One

Day one: hand tied bouquets and bridal party flowers

Wednesday 17th June The Eco Floristry Retreat Day Two

Day two: table centre flowers

Thursday 18th June The Eco Floristry Retreat Day Three

Day three: floral installations