Christmas Wreath Workshop

This workshop with Vivienne Brophy, Airfield Estate’s collaborating florist, will provide you with the skills required to create your own Christmas wreath using fresh foliage. All decorative foliage and florals will be sourced from Airfield Estate’s organic gardens.

Refreshments will be provided during the demonstration, and your ticket includes your entry to Airfield Estate for the duration of the afternoon if you should choose to explore the gardens following the workshop.

Details

The event will begin at 10am in the Hive event space, with Vivienne Brophy demonstrating the creation of a fresh foliage Christmas wreath. During the demonstration, coffee/tea and pastries will be provided.

You will then dive into creating your very own Christmas wreath to take home utilising evergreen foliage, seasonal florals, and grasses from the fields, herbaceous boarders, and cutting beds in Airfield Estate.

Our floristry classes at Airfield Estate are designed to provide guidance in making sustainable and creative choices when designing arrangements of foliage and blooms for the seasonal decoration of living spaces or workplaces. Sustainability advice will be embedded throughout the demonstration, guidance, and discussion.

The workshop will include instruction in:

• Appropriate wire structure
• Mossing v. foam
• Selection, quantity and conditioning of foliage
• Wire work techniques
• Finishing, decoration, maintenance, and watering

About Sustainable Floristry

Our floristry classes at Airfield Estate are designed to provide guidance in making sustainable and creative choices when designing seasonal arrangements of foliage and blooms. Course leader Vivienne Brophy is dedicated to applying the sustainable principle of ‘less is more’ to floristry. Throughout the workshop, advice will be provided on sustainable foraging, and sustainable foliage selection.

About your Instructor

Vivienne Brophy, architect and florist, collaborates with Airfield Estate in the demonstration and teaching of sustainable floral design principles. Working alongside Airfield Estate’s garden team, and utilising their seasonal and organically grown spring bulbs, summer flowers, autumn seed heads and dried winter foliage as the basis for her floral displays. Inspired by a career researching and lecturing on architectural sustainability in UCD, Vivienne is dedicated to applying the sustainable principle of ‘less is more’ to floristry. She undertook the career floristry course in McQueens Flower School London.

Suitable for: ages 18+