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Hold Onto Summer: Grow Your Own Dried Botanicals

Oct

4

October 4, 2026

Gathering Ground, 🇬🇧

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About This Event

Hold Onto Summer: Grow Your Own Dried Botanicals is a half-day workshop taking place on Sunday, October 4, 2026, at Gathering Ground in Glasgow.

What to Expect

  • Learn low-input, low-maintenance ways to grow, dry, and preserve flowers and plants in Scotland.
  • Discover which flowers and plants to choose, how to grow and harvest them, and various preservation methods.
  • Create your own autumnal dried-flower wreath using supplied materials to take home.
  • Participate in a practical bulb-planting session in the Gathering Ground garden, weather permitting.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is suitable for everyone, as no previous gardening, growing, or wreath-making experience is needed.

Practical Information

  • The main indoor workshop runs from 11 am–1 pm, followed by a short break and a gardening session from 1:30 pm (weather permitting).
  • Refunds are available up to 7 days before the event.

Programme

  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Main indoor workshop covering growing, drying, and preserving flowers, and creating an autumnal wreath.
  • 1:30 PM onwards: Short gardening session for practical bulb-planting in the Gathering Ground garden (weather permitting).

Topics

dried botanicals flower growing wreath making bulb planting horticulture