SUMMER MEADOWS
A ONE DAY FLORAL WORKSHOP ON WAIHEKE ISLAND
with Lucy The Flower Hunter
A one day FLORAL WORKSHOP
Saturday 1 February 2025
Come join us - and Lucy the Flower Hunter- at the Wildflower school while we celebrate our love of flowers and indulge in a little floral creativity …
Read on and be tempted by the dreamy workshop offering below hosted in our workroom overlooking beautiful Woodside Bay on Waiheke island for one blissful day of creative indulgence…
Register interest using the button below
Or email VICKI@THEWILDFLOWERSCHOOL.CO.NZ to book.
How lucky are we - after our delicious time with her in March 2024 at our Autumnal Abundance workshop - to have Lucy the Flower Hunter come and join us again in the Antipodes in 2025 ?!
Our 3 day Summer Meadows Workshop from 2 Feb 2025 is already sold out, so we have decided to offer one more chance to those who would love to join us on a workshop with Lucy …
our SUMMER MEADOWS ONE DAY offering…
Lucy Hunter will share with us some insights from her books, tips on gardening - and most of all her inimitable artistry in botanical styling as she creates one of her signature urn arrangements. The Workroom will be abundant with summer blooms from local small flower farms …. dahlias, garden roses, cosmos, foxgloves, yarrow, corncockle, scabiosa and more. We will be inspired by these blooms and the abundance of wildflowers growing in meadows and roadsides surrounding us … Vicki Roycroft from The Wildflower School will demonstrate how to create a hand tied bouquet with a meadow vibe. Then you will choose weather to create a hand tied bouquet or a garden arrangement In a pottery jardiniere handmade by Waiheke Island ceramic artist Jane Burn.
In between creating, enjoy the stunning views from our WORKROOM overlooking Woodside Bay on Waiheke Island, and share a lovely long lunch and a glass or two of wine with your fellow guests…
Prepare To Be INSPIRED!
FLORAL INGREDIENTS…
our WORKROOM will of course be abundant with summer blooms picked from local small flower farms- dahlias, garden roses, foxgloves, yarrow, scabiosa, cosmos, zinnias, corncockle and more will fill our vessels and urns to overflowing- just wanting for you to select and arrange them…
Morning WORKSHOP:
GATHERED from the MEADOW Bouquet demonstration
with Vicki Roycroft from The Wildflower School
From the abundance of seasonal blooms in the Workroom, Vicki will demonstrate how to construct a hand-tied bouquet in her “undone” style and with a painterly approach to layering in colours and textures- and inspired by how wildflowers grow in wafty clusters in untamed meadows…
Morning WORKSHOP:
URN Demonstration
with LUCY THE FLOWER HUNTER
Lucy will create one of her beautiful naturally arranged overflowing URN arrangements.
She will talk to you about her inspiration and creative process…. about how she likes to place the flowers in a vessel as if they were in a garden (or meadow!)- and have grown there naturally; about how the different flowers she selects play different roles in the arrangement- like instrumentalists in an operatic performance: from the orchestra pit through to the primadonnas…
Afternoon WORKSHOP:
MEADOW FLOWERS….
create a hand tied Bouquet OR a Vase arrangement
Arrange flowers in CLAY Jardinieres to make TABLE MEADOWS
be inspired by Lucy’s urn arrangement and create your own tumbling meadow arrangements in one of Jane Burn’s lovely hand made pottery jardinieres
OR
Create a hand tied “Gathered from the Meadow” style bouquet
be inspired by Vicki’s “undone” naturally “unnarranged” bouquet to create your own meadow bouquet- and tied it with drifts of silk ribbon
And dont worry, if you choose to create a bouquet rather than a vase arrangement, you can still select your favourite vase to take home and create in later- and similarly if you choose to create an arrangement in a vessel, you can still take home some silk ribbon to tie around a bouquet you make another time…
FLORAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Lucy Hunter, whose beautiful photography of florals fills the pages of her two lovely books, will take photos of your floral creation and these will be shared with you all later …. and as she shoots she will share with you some photography tips.
EAT and relax…
In between creating, take a moment to gaze at the lovely view of Woodside Bay below….
we will serve a home made sweet treat for morning tea - washed down with an Island coffee.
And of course Mark will create delectable dishes for a lovely long lunch for you to share with your fellow guests, along with a glass or two of local wines…
INCLUDED In Your Day Of Floral Indulgence:
an abundance of blooms and foliage to play with
a gift tote with linen apron, secateurs, silk ribbon and course notes
a handmade clay vessel by Jane Burn… to arrange in at the workshop or to take home with you
morning tea and gourmet lunch
photography of your work taken by Lucy Hunter
NOTE:
please bring something to carry your arrangement in when you leave
NOT INCLUDED: transport or accommodation
Your Investment…..
850.00 plus GST per person
for the workshop, blooms, gifts, materials and meals
(as itemised - see INCLUDED section)
Here are a few more of Lucy Hunter’s URN arrangements- in her signature garden style….
To register your interest use the form at the top of this page.
Alternatively, email vicki@thewildflowerschool.co.nz
or phone Vicki On 0274420787
Places are strictly limited so don’t miss out!
If a minimum number of bookings is not met the workshop will be cancelled, you will be notified and your deposit refunded.
Once we have confirmed the workshop is going ahead your payment will not be refundable.
However should you be unable to attend you will be able to transfer your booking to another person of your choosing by agreement with the course director.