Join us to learn about the wonders of wild, botanical colour, creating your own bottles of locally-foraged alder cone inks.

The creation and use of botanical ink can be dated back to as early as the fifth century.

These events, run by Grace Stephenson of the Gardeners’ House, have always proved popular and sell out quickly. We recommend booking your place early if you are keen to join us.

Understanding our ticket prices

We offer a tiered system of pricing for some of our events, so that there should always be a ticket price to suit all purses. We do not want there to be any barriers to you attending our events if you would like to come along. This is why we offer some free, or lower cost, tickets for each of our events.

Our Free or lower cost tickets are there for you to book if you don’t have much spare money at the moment. We will never ask questions about this – we just ask for an honesty system, where these tickets are booked if you can’t afford a full price ticket but would love to join us.

Our Standard tickets are an affordable option, designed to help us cover the cost of putting on these events (opening the building, staffing, speakers, any teas, coffees or food and so forth)

Our higher-price You Support Us option gives you the price to pay a little more for your ticket, as a way of supporting the work of the Gardeners’ House. It allows us to cover the cost of the event AND to have some left over which we can put towards our work as a charity.

Please think about the level of ticket which applies to you when you’re booking.