From Flower Bed to Flower Bouquet - October Wellbeing Workshop

Theme: Design, Wellness, Botanical Memories, and Organic Heritage
🗓️ Dates in October | 🕒 Sessions: 11 October Sunday 14:00–15:30 & 15 October Thursday 19:00–20:30

This hands-on 90-minute workshop takes you through the journey of growing, selecting, and arranging organic flowers. Learn the art and wellness of garden-based floral design using fresh seasonal cuts all rooted in botanical tradition and organic practice of Festina Lente Walled Garden.

• Meet your hosts and fellow flower lovers
• Introduction to the garden and the theme of flowering for wellbeing
• Walkthrough of today’s seasonal focus

• Guided walk through Festina Lente Garden
• How to grow and select fresh organic flowers for cutting
• What makes a flower "cut-worthy": stem structure, timing, scent, & sustainability
• Featured flowers:Alstroemeria, Sweetpea, Rudbeckia, Cosmos, Aster, Cornflower, Echinacea

• Demo: Harvesting seasonal cuts from the garden
• How to plan your garden for continuous blooming
• Tips on soil, spacing, and pairing
• Grow-your-own guide for:Tulips, Daffodils, Paperwhites, Iris Bucharica,Solidago, Helichrysum, Lavender, Eucalyptus, Fountain Grass

• The wellness aspect of working with flowers
• Basics of floral design: height, color, rhythm
• Flower symbolism and heritage varieties
• Hands-on: create your own bouquet using fresh flowers from Festina Lente Garden

• Reflective circle: share your bouquet & your botanical intention.

• Workshop booklet & planting guide
• Fresh flower selection from Festina Lente Garden
• Seed packs (Sweetpea, Cosmos, Solidago, Helichrysum)
• Biodegradable bouquet wrap
• “Design Your Own Symbolic Garden” template

Event venue

Festina Lente, Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, Ireland

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