For summer 2023, we’re offering a new series of garden workshops full of fun opportunities to learn garden and art skills while handling plants in the Garden.
Our goal is for beginners and more advanced gardeners and artists to come away with practical hacks for creating, growing, and enjoying their gardens with friends. Workshops will feature topics include growing in small spaces like your windowsill, how to grow versatile plants for floral arranging and dying fabric, and how to hammer your way to art.
There are more to explore below, and we ask that you register on our Eventbrite page.
If you have a group that might be interested in booking any of the classes listed below as a private workshop please send us an email using our event inquiry form.
Public workshop: Wednesday, June 7
Available for group booking: May-June
Cost: $55
Description: Drop by to pick up a kit of 8 container ready garden plants! Stick around for a mini (no pun intended) tour of our container garden and learn about maximizing small spaces when gardening. Then, practice your skills at home with your new dwarf sampler pack.
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Public workshop: Wednesday, June 14
Available for group booking: year round w/ 4 week lead time
Cost: $30
Description: Learn DIY techniques and plant propagation skills to add pizzazz to your houseplant planters and plant collections. Each participant will take home a marble dyed pot and an up-cycled mini planter. We’ll demonstrate how to DIY with our diamond drill bit, so you can turn any thrifted mug or old glassware into a container. You’ll also receive a rooted plant, and three plant cuttings. This 45-minute project was designed for those aged 18 and up.
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Public workshop: Wednesday, June 21
Available for group booking: June-July
Cost: $45 BYO vase, $50 vase included
Description: Step up your bouquet making skills with the flowers of spring–Ranunculus, Stock, Calendula and tons more! Take home a centerpiece sized arrangement that you create, a DIY and reusable flower foam, our floral cheat sheet to help with your future bouquet making, and tips from our staff to help your future floral designs. Choose to get a vase from us, or to bring your own. This 60-minute project is for ages 18+.
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Flower pounding — destroy to create!
Public workshop: Wednesday, July 12
Available for group booking: June-August
Cost: $20
Description: Take out your frustrations and embraced your artistic side with our flower pounding workshop! Learn and practice techniques to create plant based textiles, and experience the joy of destruction to create art! Take home a floral banner made from plant-based dyes, and all the skills needed to create flower-based art with easily harvested flowers in the future. This 45-minute project was designed for those aged 18 and up, but you can take home the skills to replicate this workshop with all ages.
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Public workshop: Wednesday, July 19
Available for group booking: August-October
Cost: $50
Learn a variety of the best techniques for drying flowers, then create an everlasting arrangement. Each participant will take home a willow drying rack and five mini-bouquets of their choosing to dry, so that you can use your new artistic skills at home! This 60-minute project was designed for those aged 18 and up.
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Public workshop: Wednesday, July 26th
Available for group booking: July-August
Cost: $45 BYO vase, $50 vase included
Description: Practice your bouquet making skills with cut flowers endemic to Mexico where many of our most treasured cut flowers originate–Cosmos, Dahlia, Marigold, Zinnia, and more. Take home a centerpiece sized arrangement that you create, a DIY and reusable flower foam, our floral cheat sheet to help with your future bouquet making, and skills to help future floral designs. You will have the option to get a vase from us, or to bring your own. This 60-minute project was designed for those aged 18 and up.
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Public workshop: Wednesday, August 2
Available for booking: August
Cost: $35
Learn the best techniques, plants, and strategies for keeping your gardening going later into the season. Participants will take home a dozen veggies perfect for a feasible fall harvest.
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Public workshop: Wednesday, August 9th
Available for group booking: June-August
Cost: $55
Help us pot plants from our dye garden, and learn to extract dye from plants to color yarn, clothing, and more! Each participant will dye and take home three bundles of yarn, 75 grams each, for your future arts and crafts. Each participant will also complete a short art project with their yarn. Leave with a take home list of easily grown or foraged dye plants, so that you can try your new skills at home. This 60-minute project was designed for those aged 18 and up.