Forever Blooms: Grow Your Own Dried Botanicals

Learn to grow, dry & preserve flowers, create your own autumnal wreath and planting a cut flower patch. Join Elinor and Leonie from House of Yves at Gathering Ground for a half-day workshop exploring the beautiful possibilities of growing, drying and preserving your own flowers. We’ll look at low-input, low-maintenance ways to grow botanicals here in Scotland. Exploring which flowers and plants to choose, how to grow and harvest them, and the different ways they can be preserved to create dried bouquets, wreaths and botanical displays that last well beyond summer. You’ll then use a selection of dried flowers and plant materials to create your own autumnal wreath to take home. - Weather permitting, we’ll finish in the Gathering Ground garden with a practical bulb-planting session. Putting what we’ve learned into practice while creating something that will continue to grow and provide flowers in seasons to come. 🌼 LEARN Discover flowers and plants suitable for growing and drying in Scotland, with practical advice on growing, harvesting and preserving them. ✂️ MAKE Create your own simple autumnal dried-flower wreath, with all materials supplied, to take home and enjoy. 🌱 PLANT Head into the Gathering Ground garden to plant bulbs for our cut-flower patch and help create next year's flowers. About House of Yves House of Yves is a landscape design practice working with plants, vegetation and living environments, with a particular interest in horticulture and environmental processes. Elinor is a landscape designer with 20 years' experience. Her work brings together landscape design, horticulture and artistic practice, alongside experience teaching design in the UK and Europe. Community gardening has become an increasingly important part of her practice and teaching. The workshop will be facilitated by Elinor and Leonie from House of Yves. Event details Saturday 24th October 2026 11am–2pm Gathering Ground, 5 Applecross Street, Glasgow G4 9SP The main indoor workshop will run from 11am–1pm, followed by a short break a short gardening session from 1.30pm (weather permitting) No previous gardening, growing or wreath-making experience is needed. All wreath-making materials are included.