'EMERGING'

a workshop idea with a difference.
For the month of March, April and May I do invite interested people to come along for a bit of 'strolling around'. On our walk we try to identify the rich flora, pick wild herbs and other plant material. We will use some in our lunch and make herbal tea. The workshop will end with a relaxing flower arranging session, where we use up some of our wild material together with fresh flowers.

There will be a trail workshop on THURSDAY, the 16th of March from 11 am to 2 pm

But if you have a group/friends of 4 - 8 people just contact me for a suitable date and time.

Biodiversity at its best ... at least 12 different species within a tiny patch

It is this fascinating time in Nature, when new live seems to emerge out of nothing. There is this giddy spring feeling in the air, when some people feel the urge to loose weight, others suddenly start cleaning their house from top to toe and different folk again want to renew everything, like their clothes, shoes or even their car.
I definitely could do with any of those urges just mentioned above, but with the days becoming remarkably longer, I just increase my 'strolling around' a bit more and try to detect the sometimes nearly invisible newcomers within the hedgerows or alongside the lane.

My goats are actually a great company for this venture,  as they are somehow on the same mission. like looking out for new bits of green, emerging out from last years dead and gone natural cover. There is really so much to discover, to pick and to try. 

The other day I did spice up my lunch salad with all sorts of wild herbs and cultivated ones from the garden and the tunnel. There were very young nettle, cleavers, dandelion, chickweed, rocket, parsley, mustard leaves and radicchio. 

From a Florists point of view it is great to collect all the dead material, like cut off twigs, dead grass, twisted and curly material and anything in between. Especially with your own emerging Garden flowers it can be a worth while experiment to arrange a very individual masterpiece.

and in between the whole Spring Beauty there are rainbows ... many, beautiful rainbows between the showers of rain, hail and snow.