WORKSHOP : 'Passion plus knowledge - a guide to designing your garden'

$95.00

With Jenny Cooper and Julia Atkinson-Dunn

This is an in person workshop hosted at the Blue House, Amberley, North Canterbury.
Sunday 27th August
2 - 5 pm

Do you wish to create a beautiful, peaceful, garden to suit your lifestyle, budget and time available? Or perhaps you have bought an established garden and are unsure how to renovate it, tackling the issues that come with mature trees and shrubs.

Whether you want to make better use of the space you inhabit or need a complete redesign, we will give you our approach to identifying the challenges and opportunities of your property, providing inspiration to build your plan with confidence.

This immersive, information-laden workshop is designed to help you answer the big questions: What sort of garden do you want to create? How do you find your personal style? Right down to practical advice around new bed prep, deciding your planting palette, staying within budget, and the best way to suppress weeds- plus much more.

Spend an afternoon at the beautiful Blue House Amberley. Our group will enjoy the presentation inside this architecturally designed passive home, but the workshop includes a garden tour for you to enjoy the spring hellebores and see the winter cutback in progress.

We are both knowledgeable gardeners who believe passionately in sharing our experience in a fun, inspiring and informal way. We both come from art and design backgrounds and are inspired by overseas garden design trends so we will bring a strong design focus to the discussion.
However here our similarities end - one of us is a very experienced gardener, who began with a bare 4600 m2 sheep paddock. The other is a relatively new gardener who renovated and transformed her established urban garden as she learned the ropes. One of us leans towards structure and the other towards romance in a garden - combined we have a wealth of knowledge and inspiration to share.

Limited to 20 people

To register for this event, follow the link to Passion plus Knowledge - a guide to designing your garden.

ABOUT JULIA :

@studiohomegardening + @studiohome

Julia fell into the world of gardening when she purchased her Linwood villa in 2017. With a background in interior design and a writer commentating on design, art and creativity she used her growing curiosity to drive her research into renovating and replanting her garden to reflect her personal style.
In 2021 she photographed, wrote and released Petal Power and Flowers for Friends with Koa Press. She also wrote, photographed and filmed for over 90 column pieces for Stuff which were republished in New Zealand’s top regional newspapers.
Her new, most comprehensive book - A Guided Discovery of Gardening is now available for pre-order, debuting in stores in spring 2023.

In June 2023 she launched a subscription-based online gardening magazine and archive  - Unearthed.

Julia is also an artist and continues to be inspired by her garden. Exploring it from her studio to experimenting in the ground, interviewing and writing.
Her approach is always to share through her own experiences and provide a refreshing, friendly take on gardening to inspire her peers.