We've combined three of our online demos to offer you the opportunity to book them all at a reduced cost.
These three sessions will give you the confidence to grow and cut a wide selection from your garden, and inspire you to plant more to make a really useful collection which will give both your garden and your floristry a real wow factor.
The demos included in this package are as follows. Each demo starts at 5pm (UK time) and lasts one hour. Please click the demo name for full details of each session.
The Growing Willow For Floristry Demo
Join flower farmer and willow wreather Georgie Newbery for a demonstration and discussion about how to plant and grow willow for using in floristry and wreathing.
For over twenty years Georgie has been growing willow for cropping at her flower farm in Somerset, and so many people ask her what she grows, how she harvests, and how to uses the willow in floristry, that she decided it’s time to turn all that information into one of her online teaching sessions. So, book a place and learn how to grow willow, harvest it, and use it year round in floristry and wreathing.
The Shrubs and Perennials For Cut Flower Arrangements Demo
To give your cut flower arrangements that feeling of a true country house garden you’ll need some shrubs and perennials to go with your cheerful annual and biennial flowers. But which to choose? And how can you make them perform well in your garden floristry?
Join flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery for this inspiring demo and she’ll take you through the principles you can apply when choosing shrubs and perennials for cutting, as well as give you great ideas and resources, and tips for managing your collection once it’s planted to ensure years of plenty of cut material throughout the season.
The Foliage For Floristry Demo
Good floristry depends on foliage for background, structure, texture, elegant trails….
Join flower farmer and florist Georgie Newbery for this session in which she’ll talk about the place foliage demands in floristry, recommends good varieties to grow, discusses cutting and conditioning, and demonstrates with some lovely autumn foliage cut from her own fields that day.
This is a brand new bundle for 2025.
Suitable for:
Anyone who loves to grow and cut flowers and foliage to make arrangements from their garden.
Why do a workshop or demo with Common Farm Flowers?
Georgie Newbery has been building her small business growing flowers for sale and creating floristry with material she’s grown on the farm since 2010. She is a Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Floristry Judge, RHS dahlia trials committee member, and Garden Media Guild New Talent Award Judge.
Georgie does not see other flower farmers and florists as competition, but rather as potential colleagues and collaborators. Georgie knows that it is in her interest to teach her students everything she knows. And she spends a great deal of time talking to other flower farmers and small business owners and learning as much as she can around the subject of running small businesses and farming gardens and small acreage.
There are no secrets held back from you at a Common Farm Flowers workshop.
Information about all our online workshops and demos:
You are welcome to join our workshops and demos whether you grow for pleasure or profit, and wherever you are in the world.
All our online workshops and demos take place via Zoom at 5.00pm (UK time.)
Workshops last approximately two hours and demos are around one hour.
Online workshop numbers are generally restricted to a maximum of 20 students.
We will be in touch a few days before the workshop with your joining instructions. This email will come from nicola@commonfarmflowers.com. If you’ve not heard from Nicola 48 hours before the session takes place please email nicola@commonfarmflowers.com but do please first check your junk / spam items and make sure you are checking the inbox of the email address you used to book your place.
We record all our sessions, which means you don’t miss out if, for example, you get interrupted or lose internet connection during the course of the session.
All our online workshops and demos work well if you can’t attend live. Simply book your place as if you were coming along and we will send you the recordings as soon as possible after the session has taken place.
We will send recordings (and notes for workshops) within 7 days of the session taking place, but usually much sooner than this.
Please familiarise yourself with our terms and conditions in case you need to cancel your workshop or demo place.
