Floristry Workshop: Nature Suspended

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Join Cissy Bullock – lead designer at Wildstems and founder of the School of Sustainable Floristry and co-creator of Flowers on the Edge – for a unique and immersive floral design workshop at Borde Hill.

Over the last two years, Borde Hill has been redeveloping its Victorian Stables and Walled Kitchen Garden, creating a striking new glasshouse destination 'Restaurant Isca', and Edie's Kitchen – a daytime dining experience. Suspended within the vaulted beams of the 1906 Stables building, we will create a huge dried floral hanging sculpture, crafted from materials gathered and dried from the Garden and wider Estate.

Installations of this scale are usually created behind closed doors. The thought processes, design considerations, material choices, the planned, yet adaptive approach to the build itself, all happen without anyone else seeing.

This workshop opens up that process, transforming it into a shared learning experience. Participants will become part of the journey, exploring how meaningful designs are conceived and realised: how they connect to landscape and architecture; how materials are selected and prepared to endure while creating movement and flow; and how large-scale pieces are costed, constructed and installed with confidence.

The Experience
Inspiring floral designer Cissy will share insights from the floristry industry, highlighting best practice and how to work sustainably and seasonally to get the most out of floral design. Guests will then work together in small groups to create a sculptural installation which will remain in situ, telling a story of landscape and place within the newly restored Stables, and capturing the transient beauty of nature suspended in time.

This is a chance to get hands-on guided experience to create something truly unique, at scale, and collectively with a group of like-minded creatives.

The day will also include a tour of the reimagined 'edimental' Walled Kitchen Garden and an exclusive pre-launch lunch, prepared with ingredients from our biodynamic Market Garden.

Guests will leave with practical skills and knowledge in designing floral installations at both small and large scale, professional images for your portfolio, and seeds to grow cut flowers at home for drying later in the season.