Snowdrop Kokedama

Learn how to make moss-covered Snowdrop Balls with me on Saturday 16th or Sunday 17th February at the Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival 1-2pm. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to experiment with a broad range of different materials including moss, bracken, colourful dogwood twigs and conifer foliage, to make a hanging snowdrop display…

Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival

I am very involved in the Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival that will take place on 16 & 17 February.  This is the third year of the festival, it celebrates the life of James Allen, the first man to hybridise snowdrops.  The festival is held in the Market Place and church although there are 100’s of…

Dahlias trending in 2019

“Dive into Dahlias” is a lecture by Noami Slade taking place Saturday 9th March at 11am at St Paul’s School, Shepton Mallet.  Everything you want to know about Dahlias including a propagation demonstration that I will run after the lecture.  Tickets £8

Weaving in the woods

This morning I worked with an enthusiastic group of children in the woods  making willow Christmas decorations.   We were at the Holly and Hawthorne Forest School near Shepton Mallet, it was a very cold morning, the puddles were frozen and the crispy leaves outlined by tiny icicles but we all kept warm thanks to the fire,…