Name: Garden Workshops
Start: 2026-03-14T10:30
End: 2026-09-03T17:30
Location: Hillsborough Castle

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When

Select days from April to September 2026

10.30 - 12.30

Ticketing information

See individual workshops for prices.

Member discount available. Book your discounted member ticket online and bring your membership card.

Separate ticket (advance booking required)

Please wear sturdy footwear and bring outdoor clothing (applies to all workshops).

Join our expert gardeners for a series of unmissable workshops throughout the year. These small group sessions in the idyllic setting of Hillsborough Castle's gardens will teach you hands-on techniques to use at home, from creating a bee-friendly garden to designing the very best hand-tied bouquets.

The workshops take place in the Walled Garden and the surfaces are even.

Seed sowing workshop

Date: Saturday 11 April 2026
Time: 10:30-12:30 (maximum capacity: 15)
Place: Walled Garden (all materials supplied)

Price: £45.00 non-members / £35.00 members

Join the Walled Garden Team and learn how to sow a range of seeds, annuals and perennials, flowers and vegetables. Get hands on preparing compost, filling seed trays and sowing the seed, ready to take home and germinate.

Seed sowing workshop

Growing vegetables for the first time

Date: Saturday 23 May 2026
Time: 10:30-12:30 (maximum capacity: 12)
Place: Walled Garden (all materials supplied)

Price: £45.00 non-members / £35.00 members

Join the Walled Garden Team and learn how to plant out a range of vegetables and flowers in the garden. From preparing the soil, correct spacing and planting depth to getting your lines straight, the team will give you expert guidance.

Growing vegetables for the first time

Summer Propagation - grow your own plants for free

Date: Saturday 18 July 2026
Time: 10:30-12:30 (maximum capacity: 12)
Place: Walled Garden

Price: £45.00 non-members / £35.00 members

Grow your own plants: by the end of the workshop participants will be able to identify suitable plant material to use as propagules, and will be able to select material, prepare and insert cuttings of a variety of plants using different methods, from the plants in the gardens at Hillsborough.

Summer propagation

Summer Bouquets

Date: Saturday 04 July, Saturday 08 August and 03 September 2026
Time: 10:30-12:30 (maximum capacity: 15)
Place: Meet in West Pavilion

Price: £55.00 non-members / £45.00 members

Participants will each harvest and condition flowers from the gardens at Hillsborough and create their own handtied bouquet under the instruction of our resident florist Lorna Brownlee.

Summer bouquets

Gardens