Release your inner garden florist at this glorious three-day retreat at Common Farm Flowers between Bruton and Wincanton in Somerset.

Imagine having three acres of flowers from which to cut. Imagine learning all about harvesting flowers, conditioning, and then creating with them. Imagine 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.

Book all three days here. Or you might prefer to book individual days (linked below) - it’s entirely up to you and depends on if you have specific things you’d like to learn or if you’d like to do it all!

Members of our Club receive a 10% booking on all website bookings. Find out more about the club here.

Day one: hand tied bouquets and bridal party flowers

On day one we cut and create hand tied bouquets and many variations on this theme: some of you may want to practise bridal flowers, some large hand-ties, some buttonholes, some may want to perfect the jam jar posy – so today in the afternoon we create hand-ties of many varieties with the flowers we cut in the morning. It’s as though we are creating the flowers for a bridal party.

Day two: table centre flowers

On day two we consider how we can fill a table with flowers for a wedding or event and we make larger, more formal arrangements. Using sustainable mechanics we will create pedestal vase arrangements in the afternoon, with flowers and foliage we cut in the morning.

Whether you’re an enthusiastic amateur florist, or a pro who wants to refine their sustainable floristry skills, this is a great day for you to take a fresh look at dressing a table with flowers so that you can wow your friends and clients alike with your creative ideas, practical solutions, and the beautiful results of your work.

And look! It’s as though we’ve created the flowers for the wedding reception to go with the wedding party of day one.

Day three: floral installations

Day three sees us tackling larger installations. Let’s cut the flowers in the morning – a different kind of harvest to the previous days, and then after lunch we’ll create a large broken arch as though for a wedding, large statement urns of flowers and foliage, perhaps a hanging arch if that’s what you’d like, or meadow boxes.

We are very much driven by what the students want to make, and while there will certainly be arches and urns filled with flowers on this day, there may be other pieces people would like to try: garlanding, meadow boxes, hanging arches, and more, for which we will find time having harvested cut flowers especially in the morning.

And oh look again! It’s as though we’ve created the frame within which the ceremony of the wedding we’ve been working on for the past two days can take place.

If you would rather book one or two days, you can do that via these links:

The Eco Floristry Retreat Day One

The Eco Floristry Retreat Day Two

The Eco Floristry Retreat Day Three

Reviews:

Here's what some recent students had to say about this workshop:

"Having just returned home from the 3 day Eco Floristry Workshop held by Georgie Newberry at Common Farm Flowers, I’m wondering how on earth I can go back to living my normal life without becoming depressed! The whole three days were truly fabulous, from learning or honing the skills of cutting & conditioning in the mornings, to developing the confidence to create stunning floral displays in the afternoons, this course truly had it all.”

"I attended the 3 day floristry course which was everything I’d hoped it would be and more. My floristry work has definitely come on leaps and bounds! I learned so much about cutting, conditioning and how to manage timing and scaling what I do. I’m now able to get much better results without that much extra effort. I would thoroughly recommend this course, both as an investment in your floristry and also as a chance to take some time for yourself. I spent 3 days in great company just thinking about what a lovely time I was having!"

Paying for a 3 day workshop:

Generally a place is only secured on one of our workshops when full payment is made, but we appreciate that for some people they may prefer to budget for this 3 day session. Therefore we are happy to arrange for you to pay by instalments if you prefer, as set out here:

If you wish to book a 3 day workshop more than 3 months ahead of it taking place we are able to take a non refundable deposit of £333 at the time of booking. The next instalment of £333 will be payable 3 months prior to the workshop. The remainder of the workshop cost will be payable no later than one month prior to the workshop taking place.
If you are booking a place within 3 months of the workshop taking place, an initial payment of £666 is required (£333 of this is a non refundable deposit). The final instalment of £333 is required 1 month from the date of the workshop.

If you would like to arrange to pay in instalments please email nicola@commonfarmflowers.com

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