Celebrating autumn: upcoming events
Posted:26 September 2010
We love autumn! Its always hard to choose between the joy of new growth in spring, the pleasure of a warm summer (if were lucky!), and the season of greatest change autumn
Autumn smells different, it looks stunning (Im thinking the drama of leaf colour change), and its time for wrapping up warm and putting the garden to bed. But of course, nothing stops, were also thinking ahead forcing bulbs to flower at Christmas, propagating our favourite plants, sowing hardy annuals, and planting bulbs and new plants whilst the soil is still warm.
At The Garden House we have some great autumn workshops and visits coming up.
On Wednesday 20 October, a visit by coach to Sheffield Park and Garden to savor the stunning colour change as the many rare trees and shrubs turn yellow, gold and red…(10am to 3pm / £25 pp for National Trust members and £34 pp for non-NT members).
Then on Friday 22 October we have two events:
- Firstly, The Garden House will be open from 3pm to 6pm. Do come along with a friend we’re offering FREE demonstrations on seasonal tasks like propagation and bulb-planting, with useful hand-outs to take away with you and we’ll have a variety of bulbs for sale, also tea or coffee and homemade cake for sale (£4.50 pp).
- Following that, in the evening, one of our favourite local artists, Jo Sweeting, is holding a pumpkin carving workshop (6.30pm-9.15pm / £42 pp, or £40 each for two people booking together supper and wine included). This will be a brilliant evening Jo is an amazing sculptor, working more typically in stone and her carved pumpkins are just so different and inspiring!
All the details of these and other great autumn/winter workshops and courses are in our DIARYcheck it out!