Join the festival of flowers at Eden Gardens
EVENT DATE
9 Oct 2022
TIME
9:30am - 3:30pm
LOCATION
Eden Gardens
307 Lane Cover Road, Macquarie Park
Join Eden Gardens on 9 October for a beautiful spring day in Macquarie Park celebrating all things flowers at the Festival of Flowers.
This free event will be filled with markets, talks, kids and adult workshops and all things spring. Think flower crowns, botanical gin workshops, spring gardening talks and delicious dessert bars.
The program includes:
Workshops including how to make your own natural skincare workshops and an opportunity to create your own floral scent with sage cosmetics, kids can make their own flower crowns. Adults can make their own flower wreath or create a felted flower. There’s also natural dyeing workshop, cyanotype flower printing, creating dyes and inks from the garden workshop, bubbles and blooms workshop, collage with gum leaf workshops and crochet and/or sew workshop.
A comprehensive program of free talks covers topics such as growing roses, how to grow lavender, planting native flowers and how to create a scented garden.
Artisans and bespoke producers coming with everything from local honey to flower themed arts and crafts from Lisa Shepherd Designs, Originally Nic, Jill Knox, Romanda Ceramics and many more.
Petal Powered Ponies in the Garden - Come along and groom a gorgeous horse from Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA), adding some flowers to mane, then snap a selfie with a difference! All funds raised go towards RDA Ryde Centre, and participants go into the draw to win a riding lesson from Galloping Grapes Riding.
