Spring Flowers - Pollinators and Companions for Garden Health

Name: Spring Flowers - Pollinators and Companions for Garden Health
Start: 2025-11-01T00:30:00+13:00
End: 2025-11-01T02:30:00+13:00
Location: 1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand 0600

Schedule

Sat Nov 01 2025 at 12:30 am to 02:30 am

UTC+13:00

Location

1 Olympic Place, New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand 0600 | Auckland, AU

Who doesn't love flowers? Spring is a beautiful time in the garden!
In this workshop:
- Learn about the natural approach to flower growing
- How does a diversity of perennial flower species benefit the environment and improve the soil 'sponge'
- Harness the benefits of a floriferous garden (producing many flowers) for the birds and bees
- How can growing flowers benefit my food garden?
- Eve and Meg's top tips and their favourites (easy-to-grow, cut for the vase, wild or beneficial flowers)
After tea/coffee break we will head outside.
- Get hands-on and learn techniques for propagation of flowering plants
- Learn how to establish a wildflower garden and find out how we are developing EcoMatters community kai berm and pollinator pathway.
Book your ticket here: https://events.humanitix.com/spring-flowers-pollinators-and-companions-for-garden-health
BONUS
Take home a punnet of Eve's cut flower faves, plus a punnet of beneficial pollinator blend flowers sown on the day.
** First five bookings receive a tuber to plant from one of Eve's beautiful dahlias! **
NB. A selection of plants will be available to purchase at the end of the workshop.
About:
EcoMatters Organic Teaching garden is a space where our community can join in and learn about a range of sustainable gardening ideas in one location.
Eve Clarke has a background in flower growing with her business 'Forage Flowers' and has recently joined EcoMatters as nursery manager with the Nature Team.
Meg Liptrot has a background in sustainable horticulture, is coordinator of EcoMatters teaching garden and is former garden columnist for the Herald on Sunday.