Workshop
Create your own
festive wreath
Brought to you by The Diggers Club
Your Workshop
Prepare for the festive season with Domenica Vavala, floral designer and artist as she guides you through the making of a festive wreath using both dried and fresh locally sourced flora and foliage. Invite a friend and catch up while learning from a true artist. Domenica’s work draws on a love of floriculture, natural history, sustainability and the organic forms of Japanese and Korean floral design. You will leave with a beautiful, sustainable festive door wreath, all ready for the silly season. All flowers and foliage have been sourced from the Diggers three award-winning gardens.
This Workshop is designed to teach you everything you need to know to design and create a sustainable wreath for summer!
What will you learn?
- How to create a strong mechanical base for your wreath and the art of securing flora
- Selection of flora, foliage, grasses and seed pods that are suitable for wreath making
- The symmetry of wreath design
- Considerations when practicing sustainable floristry
Why not visit Seasons Restaurant for lunch before or after the workshop?
Member price
$140
Non member price
$200
Your Presenter
Domenica Vavala is a floral designer and artist based on Bunurong Country (Frankston East, Victoria).
Her work draws on a love of floriculture, natural history, sustainability and the organic forms of Japanese and Korean floral design. She holds a Fine Art degree from RMIT University, along with qualifications in painting, printmaking, and floristry.
Domenica studies Sogetsu Ikebana and recently completed the KFDA Korean Flower Design Association Certificate II and exam in Hong Kong.
The Location
Cloudehill comprises five acres of some of the loveliest volcanic soil in the Dandenongs. Our soils and climate (lower temperatures with higher humidity and rainfall) are why the region is thought to be one of the finest areas in the world for cool climate gardening.
The principal terraces of the garden are in the Arts and Crafts style. Associated with Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens, the gardens combine both formal structure and informal planting within each of the garden rooms. With 25 different areas to explore each with its own character and season of interest, the gardens range from formal with clipped hedges and topiary as you enter, through to the more relaxed bulb meadows in the lower sections of the garden.
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Workshop
Create your own festive wreath
Cloudehill Garden and Nursery (Olinda)
Morning session:
10 am to 12 pm
Afternoon session:
1.30 pm to 3.30 pm