Rosemary & Thyme: Garden Companion

19/10/2024

A lovely morning hosting an autumn wreath making workshop. Some very creative people enjoying playing with nature’s creations in the calm surroundings of beautiful gardens.
FOBS - Sheffield Botanical Gardens

28/08/2024

Come & join us at the working greenhouse in the Sheffield Botanical Gardens and learn how to make a beautiful hand tied bouquet using seasonal blooms. Using sustainable floristry techniques come along learn, relax, play and have some fun.
No prior experience required.

Book your tickets via Eventbrite here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hand-tied-flower-bouquet-workshop-tickets-856095754447?aff=oddtdtcreator

20/08/2024

September is a busy month for Social and Therapeutic Horticultural (STH) events.

A couple of really interesting FREE online webinars coming up hosted by University of Essex on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th September showcasing latest reserach on:

- 🌻 Growing Social and Therapeutic Horticulture in UK mental healthcare

- 🌻 Growing Social and Therapeutic Horticulture uptake in the UK

An online webinar and discussion for STH providers.

03/07/2024

It was such a privilege to spend Monday morning at the Snowdrop Project with some lovely women.

We had a giggle over making flower crowns & smelling a wide range of edibles. All grown in Sheffield.

I always learn something from the people I work with.. did you know you can infuse Rosemary in olive oil (for a month in the dark) and then rub it into your hair your to
promote growth & ‘help’ grey hair. I’m definitely going to try this…🌱

12/06/2024

We had a great session yesterday MHA Moorland House. Thank you so much for letting me work with you - I had a lot of fun! Everyone kept me on my toes with some great horticultural questions. 🌸🐝🪴

12/06/2024

A little project today with the lovely folk who join me at the ‘Garden Club’. A fabulous team effort transforming this tired raised bed into a colourful sensory wildlife friendly haven. Plenty of digging, potting on, dividing, dead heading & collaborative advice on where to plant everything.
We can’t wait to see how it develops! Roll on sunshine. 🌸 🐝 🪴

18/05/2024

Celebration day! World Therapeutic Horticulture Day…

I love working in all green settings to help improve people’s well being, including my own.

My work as a Social & Therapeutic Horticultural practitioner is so varied from week to week. My clients range from a hospice, a care home, to private elderly clients in their own homes, clients with dementia to working alongside clients who are super busy & struggle to find the mojo to garden by themselves oh and a little bit of garden design & planting on & running a few workshops. All green.

Every week is different & I’m continuously learning. I love the people I work with & hand on heart everyone I work with in a green space is better for having spent time outdoors or interacting with nature.

I meet some awe inspiring people in my role all so generous with their time & knowledge. Thank you each & everyone of you.

I’m spending my day today celebrating my love for wildlife gardening, in my own little corner of green heaven & sowing some seeds.

How are you celebrating?

09/03/2024

We just love working with British grown tulips- so fresh, so colourful & grown less than 100 miles away.

A fun day of workshops with some lovely people. Laughter, concentration & learning new skills.

Sharing the love of

04/03/2024

Come & make a moss based spring wreath using growing bulbs & seasonal foliage at the Sheffield Botanical Gardens.

No experience required - just good cheer & willingness to have some green fun.

Book your tickets via Eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/848472172107?aff=oddtdtcreator

FOBS - Sheffield Botanical Gardens Sheffield Botanical Gardens

28/02/2024

We loved doing these Japanese inspired hanging moss balls today - known as kokedama at St Luke's - Sheffield's Hospice.

It was a relaxing morning that used a range of skills & even got one of our group practicing her hand excercises on her weak right hand- who knew squeezing water from moss could be used as a physio excercise!



Ps. Photos don’t do them justice. I just take a super quick uninstrusive photo at the end of our session.

11/11/2023

We had lots of fun at our autumn wreath making workshop today. Some very talented people & lovely to see some family groups coming together for special bonding time. And we were totally blessed with glorious weather.

10/11/2023

WREATH & TABLE CENTRE WORKSHOPS

We’re excited to let you know that we’ve teamed up with the gorgeous community cafe BROOK Coffee Rooms in the heart of Fulwood village, to run two Christmas workshops:

Christmas wreath making: Wednesday 6th December 6-8 pm

Christmas Table Centre piece: Thursday 13th December 6-8 pm

All fully sustainable using natural products.

Interested? Book via the Eventbrite below.

🎄🕯️🎄 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/christmas-wreath-making-workshop-tickets-737991481387?utm_experiment=control_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios

Christmas table centrepiece workshop with Rosemary and Thyme - Garden Companion

08/11/2023

Instead of using poppies to remember our loved ones, we made little displays in jam jars & dedicated them to someone special & made a ‘forever’ wreath.

It was a lovely opportunity for the group to learn some new sustainable floristry skills - chicken wire base and mini willow wreath frames.

A safe space session to chat, remember & think of others. therapy

St Luke's - Sheffield's Hospice

18/10/2023

Pumpkin 🎃 vases, dried flowers, hand picked hydrangeas from the beautiful gardens St Luke's - Sheffield's Hospice

We had fun in our therapeutic floristry session today - what a lovely group of talented people, taking a well earned break for a couple of hours. 🌸🎃🌿🍂🍁

Nothing was wasted, everything used is compostable & all the pumpkin seeds were put to good use. 🍁

14/10/2023

What a creative collection of wonderful people we had today at our Autumn wreath making workshop at the Sheffield Botanical Gardens.

Such a wide range of impressive designs- everyone let their inner creative spirit flow.

Sheffield Botanical Gardens

05/10/2023

Fact for the Day (told to me during a session with one of my dementia clients)…. that the man who invented VELCRO got the idea from the spiky ‘Teasel’ - Dipsacus sylvestris - whilst walking in the Jura Mountains, Switzerland 🇨🇭 in the 1940’s. Look it up. Nature teaches us so much.

Thank you Mary (name changed) for sharing your love & passion of flowers & plants with the group today & for being so informative.

( photos aren’t from today….)

30/09/2023

It was a lovely session with my very special group at St Luke's - Sheffield's Hospice - gathering, arranging,reflecting & sharing. With nature at the heart of our session we welcomed the Equinox & brought our own intentions to the new season.

🌿💚🌸

22/09/2023

What a lovely surprise to receive these stunning Belladonna lillies grown by from a friend, as a gift today.

They galvanised me to do my own horticultural therapy & spend time cutting foliage in my garden. I was very excited to use my newly planted Eucalyptus Gunnii, Honesty & Ferns & Dorset grown P***y Willow.

And then I arranged theses beauties using the holder from a vintage rose vase to help hold the beautiful blooms in place. The scent is stunning.

(Photos don’t do justice to the blooms).