New Flower Garden From Scratch

Do you want a beautiful garden at home with flowering perennials and shrubs – all growing as a delightful palette of textural colour like you see in the coffee table gardening books or online? 

Perhaps you’re not sure what style you like or even how to start? Maybe you feel overwhelmed by choices at the garden centre, bamboozled by compost and soil science or you’ve already bought and killed lots of new plants and are feeling a bit discouraged?

Don’t worry – help is at hand!

About the Workshop:

Join Emma and the team from Earthenry Flower Farm for an informative, hands-on and fun workshop where participants will get their hands dirty as we go step by step through the process of building a new perennial flower garden together from scratch.

The workshop will cover:

• Design and authentic garden style.
• What to think about before you plant.
• Choosing & prepping a site without chemicals.
• Assessing your soil type.
• Soil care & amendments.
• How to plant and common mistakes.
• Irrigation & mulching for success.

We’ll also cover:

• Plant choices.
• Building your existing soil.
• Aspect & light requirements.
• Coping with different soil types.
• Maintenance & weeds.
• Pest-proof plants - do they exist?
• Planting for each season.
• Attracting and supporting beneficial insects in your garden.

Includes plenty of Q&A with Emma, 1 x packet of Earthenry seeds, 1 x pair of new gardening gloves and afternoon tea.

Please bring:

Closed toe shoes, warm clothes or rain jacket + water bottle.

Notebook optional - digital notes covering the workshop will be provided after the session.

In case of bad weather:

Please note - as this is an outdoor workshop it may be subject to postponement due to poor weather on our chosen date. 

About your host:

Emma Horswill is head gardener and farmer-florist at Earthenry Flower Farm. Eathenry is also a featured garden in the recently released 'Tasmanian Gardens' book by Authors Meg Bignall and Alice Bennett. Emma has been gardening for almost 30 years and has developed all the flower borders and cur flower fields at Earthenry from scratch. Emma has many years of plant knowledge and grows over 100 different cut flowers and foliage on her farm - from annuals through to perennial shrubs and trees. Drawing on a background of Fine Arts as well as her Horticulture training at the Royal Tasmanian Botanic Gardens, Emma approaches all her garden designs with creativity and seeking the right balance between aesthetics and practical management. Unique expression and authenticity of place are key design priorities. Emma also runs a small seasonal plant nursery and seed business at their organically grown flower farm and incorporates a science based approach that draws on permaculture, biodynamics and regenerative agriculture practices.