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June, 2013
Saturday 1 June 2013
Bread-making with Real Pâtisserie
SORRY, WORKSHOP NOW FULL! One of our most popular workshops – join The Garden House and Brighton’s own Real Pâtisserie for a unique baking experience. Working in the Real Pâtisserie bakery, you will learn about the ingredients and the traditional skills that go into creating just the best breads for your own…
Saturday 1 June 2013
Create your own Garden Sketchbook
This one-day workshop will be led by local artist Sue Wood, who has many years’ experience of helping people develop their creativity. Sue will focus on the varied techniques needed to begin a sketchbook or visual diary, using the inspiring setting of the Garden House as a starting point.
Sue will…
June, 2013
Monday 3 June 2013
Printmaking Workshop: 6-week course
Six-week workshop led by Brighton-based artist Amy Douglas, will introduce you to the wonderful art of woodcut/lino relief printmaking while looking at the work of other artists.
Amy will demonstrate how to develop a design, use the tools and explore different mark making; also how to incorporate collage, and ink up…
Friday 7 June 2013
Designing show-stopping containers with succulents
Fiona Wemyss runs Blueleaf Plants, a small nursery specialising in hardy and half-hardy succulents. She creates unique and colourful arrangements matching the textures and colours of the plants with containers for small gardens, patios and window-sills.
“Succulents are great if you love plants but don’t have the space or time to…
Saturday 8 June
Flower Water and Soap Making Workshop
Join this NEW workshop led by Amanda Saurin of Wellgreen Lewes, makers of sustainable additive-free skin nourishment products, and Judith Layhe-Cook of Shakespeare’s Sister’s Soap, a small artisan natural soap making company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare.
The morning will be spent learning about flower waters, firing up the Alembic Stills to…
Starting Monday 10 June 2013
Practical Gardening: 6-week course
This practical hands-on course will cover a wide range of seasonal tasks necessary for maintaining a garden.
Propagation and pricking out of seedlings, taking cuttings, preparing a bed for planting, establishment and maintenance of plants, mulching and watering, staking and pruning. We’ll also consider ideas for attracting birds and wildlife to…
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Make a Woven Willow Tray
Inspirational basket maker, Annemarie O’Sullivan, returns to The Garden House to lead a practical willow-weaving workshop. Learn how to harvest, process and prepare willow for weaving. Using beautiful native willow grown by Annemarie in Sussex, make a simple tray design based on a Catalan tray used for serving bread and…
Saturday 15 June 2013
Painting with your iPad
Many more artists are embracing the fast colourful painting medium that is the iPad! If you saw last year’s David Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy you’ll know what we mean.
Brighton artist Kate Osborne is running a workshop for those of you with creative urges and an iPad who would…
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Pick It, Cook It: Elderflower day
Join foraging experts Carol and Louise of Pick It Cook It, Daylands Farm near Ashurst, West Sussex, for a day of foraging and cooking with elderflowers www.pickitcookit.co.uk
Their specially designed programs of foraging and cooking events reflect the rhythm of the seasons – learning how to prepare recipes from foraged foods…
Starting Thursday 27 June
Creative Photography: four-session Summer Course
Improve your confidence and skills whilst photographing the beautiful and inspirational Garden House gardens. This four-session course, led by local photographer and tutor Laura Dodson, covers practical camera and photography skills and is suitable for complete beginners or as a refresher.
The first steps will cover basic camera functions such as explaining ISO,…
July, 2013
Starts Monday 1 July 2013
4-day Garden House Summer School
Join our popular ‘hands-on’ summer course that takes you behind the scenes at several inspirational gardens and nurseries. Learn from, and work with, the experts as we talk to head gardeners and owners about their particular gardens or garden businesses.
One of the days will be spent at Hankham Organics, near…
Friday 5 July 2013
Naturalistic Flower Arranging Workshop
Join this exciting new Garden House workshop; learn how to create natural looking and inexpensive flower arrangements with flowers and foliage from your garden, using traditional techniques combined with everything nature has to offer and only a little bit of help from cultivated flowers.
There will be an informative session about…
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Painting with Watercolours: Towards Abstraction
Want to break away from getting bogged down in the detail of what you are painting? Then this one-day workshop could be for you.
Inspirational Brighton-based artist, Kate Osborne will show you how to be more expressive with the medium – with colours, shapes and composition – making your subject work…
Saturday 13 July 2013
Garden House Charity Day
The Garden House will again be hosting its annual open garden event in aid of a local charity. The day will include the opportunity to bid at our fantastic auction, a special evening supper in the garden, lots of stalls and so much more…
Make a note of the date –…
Saturday 20 July 2013
Plot to Plate – good eating workshop
This exciting new workshop will be led by Christina Taylor, whose lifelong passion has always been nutrition through good food and nature cure techniques.
The aim of the session is to impart useful information on the nutritional benefits of both everyday super foods, which can be grown in the garden, as…
Tuesday 23 & Wednesday 24 July 2013
Make your own Sussex Trug in a Weekend
Make your own garden no.6 Sussex trug in this two-day workshop led by Sussex-based Dominic Parrette, a basketmaker specialising in frame baskets, trugs and plant supports.
On this workshop you will learn to shave, steam and bend sweet chestnut to form a handle and rim. Then shave and shape the willow…
September, 2013
Saturday 21 September 2013
Wild Flowers talk
Be inspired by our British natives – learn about their place in the garden, fascinating facts about their medicinal, culinary and economic uses and folk lore and stories surrounding them. This beautifully illustrated talk by Irene Fletcher of the Ventnor Botanic Garden will encourage you to think about some of…
Starts Monday 23 September 2013
Gardening for Beginners: 6-session course
Our Monday evening course is designed for you beginner gardeners – to improve your knowledge and gardening skills – and to give you all the confidence you need to tackle and enjoy your own garden.
Learn how to grow perennials, biennials, annuals and bulbs, plus shrubs and trees. Find out the basics of…
Saturday 28 September 2013
Designing with Grasses and Perennials in a Naturalistic Style
The Garden House is delighted to again join Paul and Pauline McBride at the dramatic Sussex Prairies Garden for a wonderful prairie style planting workshop.
Drawing on the over 600 types of perennials and grasses grown at the stunning Sussex Prairie gardens this workshop will inspire you to design borders suitable…
October, 2013
Friday 4 October 2013
Exotic Mushroom Magic
Join us for a light supper and an entertaining illustrated talk on all things fungal by Brighton-based wild mushroom expert Geoff Dann, and sample some of the more unusual and exotic species of edible wild mushrooms that can be found in Sussex (as well as other more well-known ones).
Cost: £25…
November, 2013
Monday 11 November 2013
The Next Steps in Gardening
Leading on from the Beginners Gardening course this six week Monday evening course is for those of you who have some knowledge but would like to build on your gardening skills.
We will consider the basics of garden design – the use of colour, texture and shape in the garden; how…