Grow Workshop

Grow — A Two-Day Immersive Garden Design Experience

Grow is a two-day immersive garden design experience created to deepen your connection to your garden and guide you in learning how to design through plants with clarity, intention and a deeper understanding of the living landscape.

Held at my garden, Orcombe Farm, this experience is a complete journey through the creative and practical elements of designing a garden. Across two full days, we will explore how to truly see a garden, create flow and connection, design with plants, work with colour and seasonal change, bring a design together, and care for a garden as it continues to grow and evolve.

Over two full days, you’ll learn through the garden itself, with immersive garden walks, practical learning sessions, time for questions and conversation, and plenty of opportunities to observe and explore the principles we discuss in a living landscape.

We’ll share morning tea and lunch together, with relaxed time throughout the day to connect, ask questions and spend time in the garden. Each day will finish with a glass of wine and informal conversation as we reflect on what we’ve explored.

This is an invitation to slow down, observe more deeply and learn to see your garden differently, building the knowledge and confidence to create a garden that feels connected, cohesive and truly your own.

What you’ll gain

Across the two-day experience, you’ll learn practical, designer-led skills you can take home and apply directly to your own garden.

You will learn how to:

• see and understand your garden with greater clarity
• understand space, scale, proportion, light and connection
• create flow, balance and rhythm throughout your garden
• design with plants using form, shape, texture, colour and tone
• layer plants to create depth, structure and seasonal interest
• make clearer planting decisions without second guessing
• design a garden that evolves beautifully through all four seasons
• bring your ideas together into a cohesive garden vision
• understand the importance of healthy soil and a living garden
• care for your garden in a way that supports its natural rhythm and ongoing growth

You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of how gardens are created, the confidence to approach your own garden with intention rather than uncertainty, and a new way of seeing the plants and spaces around you.

The two-day experience

Day One - Saturday 7th November

Seeing the Garden and Creating the Framework

We begin with an inspirational garden tour through Orcombe Farm before exploring how to truly see and understand a garden.

We’ll explore space, scale, proportion, light, climate and connection, before looking at how to create flow, balance and rhythm throughout a garden.

The day continues with an exploration of designing through plants — understanding form, shape, texture, structure and layering to create a cohesive and connected garden.

We’ll finish the day with relaxed time in the garden, a glass of wine and informal conversation.

Day Two - Sunday 8th November

Creating a Garden That Evolves Over Time

Day two explores colour, tone and the creation of a garden with year-round interest.

We’ll look at how to bring ideas together into a cohesive garden vision, make thoughtful planting decisions and design with the future growth and maturity of plants in mind.

We’ll finish by exploring the ongoing life of a garden — including seasonal care, soil health, water, biodiversity and how to create a healthy garden that continues to grow, change and evolve over time.

Because a garden is never truly finished. It is always changing, growing, evolving and becoming.

Investment

$742 for the complete two-day experience.

Grow is designed to be experienced as a complete journey across two immersive days, with all learning sessions, garden tours, morning tea, lunch and seasonal refreshments included.

Who this is for

Grow is for those who feel drawn to create a garden with intention.

Whether you’re reshaping an existing space, starting something new or simply wanting to understand your garden more deeply, this experience will guide you towards a garden that reflects your heart, honours your landscape and feels connected to the way you live.

If you’re ready to deepen your relationship with your garden, and to understand not just what to plant but why and how, Grow is your place to begin.