Balgove Larder: Garden Shed Floral Workshops & Garden Tour

Meadow in a Frame Workshop: Using foraged branches and chicken wire, this course allows you to create a frame to arrange a unique meadow, carefully arranging summer grown dried flowers.Prices for the tours start at £35.95 per person and run on selected dates from May until October. Tickets include all materials and refreshments.Balgove Larder has launched a series of seasonal gardening and floral workshops with accompanying tours of the Walled Garden on the estate. The new tours will guide visitors through the art of sustainably growing cut-flowers and vegetables, as well as providing a unique visit to the Walled Garden on the Fife estate.  The range of workshops will offer a garden-to-vase experience, showing participants how to develop their own cutting garden before picking their own selection of flowers and creating their own arrangement.  Other courses focus on cultivating and arranging particular species like the dahlia; and drying and arranging seasonal flowers. Those looking to hone their vegetable-growing skills will enjoy the courses that explore the kitchen garden. Visitors will learn how to grow sustainably with no chemical inputs and a no-dig approach. Flowers from the garden are available seasonally at Balgove Larder’s Garden Shed but the garden is only occasionally open to the public, so this is a rare opportunity to experience the impressive Victorian gardens. The tours will be led by Head Gardener, David and his team, as well as florist, Aileen in Balgove Larder’s Garden Shed. There’s a strong focus on sustainability in the gardens and at Balgove Larder, both of which are based on Strathtyrum Estate just outside St Andrews in Fife. The growers and gardening team follow organic principles with flowers and produce carefully sowed, planted and harvested by hand.