We are so excited about our Spring Colour Workshops. Spring is the time in the rose garden where there's a bounty of blooms to choose from. At Edgeworth Lley - Heirloom Roses, we grow a range of heirloom roses and flowers that you won't find at a florist. Perfect for creating stunning and unique bouquets for Spring.
At our Spring Colour Workshops we will do a guided walk around the gardens and choose from the many roses and flowers on offer. The colour combinations for bouquets and posies are endless (not to mention the fragrance combinations)!!! Then we will show you how to use your choices to create a stunning Spring bouquet. You will also learn about dyeing your own ribbon using herbs from the garden!
As we guide you around the gardens, you might start with the bright red climbing rose, 'Altissimo'. It's large red blooms are stunning as the central focus in a bouquet or posy.
And of course, there are the daffodils. The yellow of a daffodil will add warmth and joy to any arrangement.
A special treat is the Australian bred rose, 'Lorraine Lee', with it's gorgeous coral tones. And the perfume is delicious too.
Because we don't use toxic sprays, we under-plant our heirloom roses with lots of herbs. One of my favourites is the self-seeding borage. The tiny blue star-like flowers are gorgeous and add a little bit of sparkle to a pretty posy.
We also use the herbs in our gardens to dye ribbon and fabrics to tone with our bouquets and posies. At our Spring Colour Workshops we will show you how to dye your own ribbon with herbs from our gardens.
Among the species roses is Rosa Laevigata. It flowers only once a year, but it's large single blooms are astonishingly beautiful in the garden, and gorgeous in any arrangement.
A favourite old-fashioned Tea rose for cutting is the luscious 'Mrs B R Cant'. She can have hundreds of double, pink blooms at one time. We know Spring has arrived when she is covered with buds and blooms at various stages of opening.
Sweet peas are another seasonal treat in the gardens. We grow the fragrant old-fashioned type that go so well in our Spring posies.
Another favourite rose for bouquets is the climbing Blue Moon, one of our nostalgia roses. The fragrance is delicious and the colour fits so well with so many other roses from the gardens; a perfect foil for bright colours in a bouquet.
So gathering a range of roses and flowers from the garden is just one part of the joy of creating a gorgeous Spring bouquet. Once you have gathered your selection of flowers, we will guide you in how to -
Condition your flowers so they last longer in the vase.
Use your selections to create a stunning Spring bouquet that will smell as gorgeous as it looks.
Show you how to dye your ribbon to tone with your bouquet using natural dyes from the garden.
Our Spring Colour Workshops are planned for October - Thursday, 13th, and Thursday 27th from 9.30am - 12.30pm. Refreshments and all materials included.
Booking and details through our Facebook page:
Edgeworth Lley-Heirloom Roses.
We'd love to see you!
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