Kindred & Kind Flower Workshops

Name: Kindred & Kind Flower Workshops
Address: Renishaw Hall & Gardens, Sheffield, S213WB, GB
Telephone: +447878379729
Rating: 4.8

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Garden Gathered Flower Workshops in The Glasshouse at Renishaw Hall Nature inspired flower workshops and garden grown and gathered flowers .

09/12/2024

Beautiful creations this weekend as the rain drummed on the glasshouse roof, and the storm raged around us.

Wreath makers are a determined bunch, and it felt deliciously cosy drinking mugs of hot tea and singing along to Dean Martin on such a wild December weekend.

I hope everyone is safe and sound and thank you to all the lovely folk who braved the elements for our workshops. I am really grateful to be part of Christmas traditions and celebrations and completely inspired by your creations, especially with jingling bells. It really is a wonderful life 🎄💚🎄

11/10/2024

Wishing on shooting stars, under dancing lights in this Northern sky. My garden has never felt so magical ❤️💔🩷

10/10/2024

It's that time of year when I start squirrelling all the beautiful seed heads, dried bracken, and beautiful autumnal foliage into the glasshouse for winter. 🍁🍃🍂

We will be garden journalling all day tomorrow, making dried flower handties and harvesting seeds on Saturday afternoon, and the Renishaw grape harvest begins at 9am on Sunday. 🍇

The glasshouse vines suffered with the weather this summer, so we will be in the vineyard, not the glasshouse this year, if you would like to get involved. Please follow Kieron and for more details. 🍷

I haven't mentioned the C word yet, but thank you so much to everyone who has got in touch about workshops. Please send me a message if you would like to reserve a date before I add them to the website at the weekend. I'm looking forward to some wonderful wreath creations and festive fun! 🌲🌲🌲

05/10/2024

September went in a blink and I broke my phone screen so I don't have many pictures to share but we had lots of lovely Autumnal workshops despite the monsoon conditions and I'm looking forward to garden jounalling and dried flower/seed harvesting next weekend. Enjoy this Octobet blue sky day x

04/08/2024

Renishaw Hall & Gardens Summer Plant Fair is next Sunday 10.30am - 4.00pm. I'll be there selling big bunches of phlox, sedum, loosestrife, teasels and cosmos and catching up with a lot of the Renishaw regulars.

I am always hugely grateful to lovely friends who help me prepare for events and happily cut, condition, and carry flowers from the garden to the stand, and to everyone who comes to say hello and takes my flowers home.

If you are free next Sunday I would definitely recommend a visit. There is always such a brilliant variety of plants on sale and such a wealth of garden knowledge and advice from the wonderful Renishaw garden team and all the local nurseries and plant specialists on the stalls. Hope to see you there! 🌱🌿🌱

03/08/2024

Making hay whilst the sun shines (or making wreaths when the glasshouse vines are pruned!)

I've begun the process of making vine wreaths for Autumn/Winter workshops.
They need to be woven when freshly cut and pliable and, as much as I love the shape and colour of vine leaves, I have learnt from experience to take them off before making wreaths as they don't last long when cut. Roses love leaf mulch, though, so I bag up as much as I can and leave them to rot down for 18 months or so for a flower bed treat.

There are more summer workshops to enjoy the bounty of blooms in the garden but I have also added the Autumn dates now (thank you to everyone who has been prompting me - I do get distracted in the garden at this time of year so I'm very grateful for some nudges to update the website too as I'm not a natural admin person as you might have guessed!)

These wreaths will become darker as they dry out, and they will soon be in pride of place on the glasshouse door. (I've included a picture of lovely Jean and her beautiful creation from a workshop last September to show the full story from vine to workshop 🌱🌿🍇🪻)

26/07/2024

Stopping to smell the roses... 🌹 ❤️🌿

It's that week in July when I can't walk past the Visitor Centre without being distracted for some time by all the beautiful roses. Every day I have a new favourite but together they are a glorious riot of colour and I imagine them throwing fabulous parties when we've all gone home!

02/06/2024

I'm looking forward to beautiful June workshops this week. An all-day hand-tie and floral arch on Friday, cutting garden workshop on Saturday morning, and a celebratory summer flower crown birthday group on Saturday afternoon. The glasshouse will be filled buckets of garden gathered flowers, and I can't wait to see what will be blooming next weekend...

Wishing you a lovely new week xx

28/05/2024

A little glimpse of the White Garden at Renishaw Hall 🤍🌿🌱

26/05/2024

It's a sunshine and showers Sunday for the Food & Craft Fayre today, but it is definitely getting brighter, so get those wellies on and come for a wander xx

19/05/2024

Garden gatherings and hedgerow froth 🩷🌿🌸

I know I say it every year, but this week of May is probably my favourite of the year. The garden surprises me every day, the glasshouse is covered in vines, hedgerows are dancing with cow parsley froth, and beech leaves turn the woods into the Emerald City.

I was singing the praises of meadow buttercups in hand-ties with flag iris, astrantia, tangerine dream cosmos, flouncy pink peonies, cow parsley froth and beech skirts at our workshop yesterday. The meadow variety have long stems, long vase life, and they dazzle beautifully against the lilacs,, soft blues and pinks of May. They are part of the ranunculus family but much easier to grow. (Try them in containers if you are worried about the roots spreading.)

Another favourite is alkanet or evergreen bugloss. It looks a bit like a deeper blue forget-me-not but it's much taller and better for cutting. It can also get a bad rep with gardeners but it is an amazingly resilient early spring filler and great for under-planting or wilder areas of the garden. Again, it has fantastic vase life and great for wildlife 💙

Oh and if you are free next Sunday please come to the Food & Craft Fayre I will be there with my flowers grown in the walled garden and I will be happy to chat about the joys of buttercups with anyone willing to listen! Hope to see you there x 🌱🌱🌱

16/05/2024

So looking forward to the first cutting garden workshop of 2024 this Saturday
The garden is blooming and we will be wandering around with secateurs and pails to gather iris, peony, camassia, comfrey, early foxgloves, green alkanet and and meadow buttercups. There is something so wonderful about harvesting home-grown seasonal flowers. It changes every day and it makes me very happy to see the glasshouse filled with flowers again. 💐 🌿🌱

03/05/2024

Tulip and forget-me-not beauty 🩷

Thank heavens for Spring! 🌿

Photo credit to (don't forget the plant fair this Sunday. It is always an incredible event with the best local growers and garden folk. Hope to see you there x)

17/04/2024

Just a little reminder of the beauty of .nursery and a plea to support your local, independent growers and plant people 🌱🌱🌱

This is honestly not one of those paid posts, just a shout out to all the hard-working gardeners who have been busy all winter nurturing beautiful things for us to enjoy this spring 🌿

Please tag any recommendations below to support those unsung heroes of our garden communities 💚

Some of my favourite people and places include (in no particular order) and Middle Handley Rose Nursery who I can't find on these little squares but they are fabulous and their beautiful roses are found all year round in the garden shop
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03/04/2024

Not long now....🌿🌷🪻

Thank you so much for all the workshop enquiries. The Glasshouse vines are in bud, and the garden is springing into life again, so it won't be long until we are filling pails with freshly cut flowers for wild and wonderful handties.

We are starting with a few flower crown days in May before the cutting garden workshops begin properly later in the month. I'm hoping to have a tulip workshop in late April and the garden journalling continues on Fridays each month.

Our Thursday afternoon gardening/chatting/tea drinking club starts again after the Easter holidays, and I will be arranging dates for a flowery book club, natural dye workshop, and vine wreath making over the summer.

I can't wait for the glasshouse to be filled with flowers and lovely garden folk very soon. Thank goodness for Spring! 🌿🌿🌿

29/03/2024

My obsession with glasshouses continues 🌿🌷🌿

Happy Good Friday xx

06/03/2024

I 💛 a March Easter with all the smile-inducing sunshine yellows before welcoming all those fresh beech leaf greens and bluebell woodland colours of April.

May is a froth of cowparsley and pastel aquilegia, and June is all about blowsy roses, but for now, it's a celebration of spring and those hosts of golden daffodils.

I'm very happy to say that the Easter wreaths and flower nest workshops are back in the glasshouse this year, and the beautiful old door will be adorned with sunshine again! 💛

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Renishaw Hall & Gardens
Sheffield
S213WB

Telephone

+447878379729

Website

http://www.kindredkind.co.uk/

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I always wax lyrical about the bees and pollinators I share the garden with (along with the farm cats, grape - gorging blackbirds, and a whole escargatoire of very beautiful snails). Echinops or globe thistles have hundreds of tiny flowers which are irresistible to bees. They crowd on in the sunshine and use them as umbrellas to shelter under when it rains. Echinops are perennial, easy to grow, lovely to use and they have a great vase life (only cut them when they have started to flower as the stems are too weak before they have a blue haze). They grow quite tall and have a tendancy to be bashed about in bad weather so you may want to stake them but I love a wonky stem so I am happy for them to go wild in the flower bed. I prune in early autumn and usually get a second flush in December. They are then cut down to the ground in January and mulched and they flower again in July through to August. As much as I love to use them in floral work I always leave as many as possible for the bees to feed on. Giant scabious, alliums, and teasels are also huge favourites for a bee friendly cutting garden, as always some for us to use but lots to share 💛 #beefriendly #cuttinggardendiary #renishawhall #echinops #wildlifegardening #julygardengatherings #feedthebees #flowersfromthefarm #flowerworkshops #slowgardening #inspiredbynature