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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, confused by compost and soil science or you’ve already bought and killed loads 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 afternoon where participants will go step by step through the process of building a new perennial flower garden from scratch!
We’ll cover:
Design and authentic garden style.
Choosing & prepping a site without chemicals.
Garden shape and edging.
Soil & amendments.
Plant placement and spacing.
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
1x take-home plant from the Earthenry Nursery
1 x packet of Earthenry seeds
1 x pair of our fav gardening gloves
Afternoon Tea
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 cut 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, no-till and regenerative agriculture practices.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Earthenry Flower Farm, 3 Waldie Drive, Lower Snug, TAS, 3 Waldie Dr, Lower Snug TAS 7054, Australia,Snug, Tasmania, Kingston
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