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BLISSING & BLOOMING
Seasonal Garden Gatherings
Small, intimate experiences in my South East London garden,
created for women who could use a little more beauty, connection and breathing space
— a few beautiful hours to slow down, make something with your hands, share good food
and enjoy the season we’re in.
Come and spend
a little time
in the garden
There is something about being in a garden that changes the pace. We slow down, notice more, conversation comes more easily and our minds have a little more room to wander.
Each gathering is shaped by the season — sometimes creative and abundant, sometimes quieter and more reflective — but always with beautiful food, thoughtful details and space simply to enjoy being together.
You don’t need to know anything about gardening.
Just come as you are.
Midsummer Bliss
Abundance, joy & gratitude
Saturday 19 June 2027
4:00–9:00pm
By midsummer, the garden is at its most generous. Roses are climbing, borders are overflowing, herbs are fragrant and the long evening light seems to invite us to stay outside just a little longer.
Midsummer Bliss is an invitation to step into some of that abundance — and spend an afternoon considering what makes you feel truly alive.
You’ll arrive through the white garden to a homemade beverage and a personal welcome before discovering the garden beyond. There’ll be time to wander, settle in and simply take it all in before we come together barefoot on the lawn for gentle Pilates-inspired stretching, mobility and grounding.
Then we’ll make ourselves comfortable and begin a Conscious Conversation around one deceptively simple question:
What is your bliss?
I’ll share a little of what that means to me and the story behind BLISS & Bloom, before inviting you to explore your own answer through thoughtful conversation and quiet personal reflection.
Perhaps your bliss is something already present in your life. Perhaps it is something you’ve lost touch with. Or perhaps there's a part of you that has been quietly asking for a little more room.
There is no right answer — and nothing you have to share.
As the afternoon softens into evening, the more structured conversation gives way to an abundant midsummer picnic on the lawn: beautiful breads, small savoury dishes, seasonal and delicious things chosen to be passed around, shared and lingered over. The food will be vegetarian, with plenty of naturally vegan choices, accompanied by homemade botanical drinks and the sort of conversation that no longer needs prompting.
Later, there’ll be something homemade and sweet — maybe a garden-inspired lemon-and-rose cake with fresh mint tea from the garden.
Before we finish, we’ll return once more to the question we began with:
What are you making more room for?
You’ll leave with the reflection you wrote for yourself and a little posy gathered from the garden — small reminders of a midsummer evening spent slowing down enough to notice what matters.
What to expect
5 hours · 4:00–9:00pm
Approximately 8 women
Held in my garden in South East London
All food, drinks, activities and reflection materials included
Vegetarian menu with vegan options available
No gardening or movement experience needed
Please come in comfortable summer clothing you can move in
£105 per person
Autumn Sanctuary
Reconnect, reflect & rest
Saturday 25 September 2027
2:00–6:30pm
By late September, the garden has begun to change its rhythm.
The light is softer, colours are shifting and the flowers that filled summer are starting to give way to seed heads, berries, grasses and structure. There is still beauty everywhere — you just have to notice it differently.
Autumn Sanctuary is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with yourself and spend an afternoon doing something gentle, useful and restorative.
We’ll begin together in the back garden with spiced apple, tea and an autumn-inspired spread of cheeses, breads, chutneys, fruit and small savoury bites while everyone settles in and gets to know one another.
From there, we’ll prepare the body for the garden with a short, gentle mobility and stretching session before moving into a choice of therapeutic gardening activities.
You might collect and save ripe seed from the garden, learn how to take and pot up a cutting, or sow hardy flowers for the season ahead. You can stay with one activity for as long as it feels good, or move between them at your own pace.
There is no pressure to produce anything perfect.
The pleasure is in working with your hands, paying attention and allowing the rhythm of the garden to slow things down.
During this time, I’ll also spend a few quiet minutes individually with each woman — a chance to check in, connect and simply be heard without needing to perform, explain or fix anything.
Later, we’ll come back together to reflect.
Through conversation and a private BLISS & Bloom writing exercise, we’ll explore how easily we can become disconnected from ourselves — where our energy has been going, what has run its course, what we want to nurture and what we might be ready to begin.
There will be space to think about something many of us forget:
you are allowed to decide where your energy goes.
And you are allowed to create boundaries that help you stay connected to yourself.
As the afternoon draws to a close, we’ll settle onto cushions and blankets on the lawn for a guided grounding meditation inspired by the autumn garden — breath, roots, changing light, thoughts passing and the feeling of being supported by the earth beneath you.
Then, for a little while, nothing is required at all.
Just stillness.
You’ll leave with your BLISS & Bloom reflection booklet and something small from the gardening you’ve done — perhaps seeds, a cutting or something you’ve sown — simply presented to take home and continue tending.
What to expect
4½ hours · 2:00–6:30pm
Approximately 8 women
Held in my garden in South East London
Food, drinks, gardening materials and reflection materials included
No gardening or movement experience needed
Come in comfortable clothing suitable for being outdoors and getting your hands into the soil
£95 per person
winter's promise
Planting for the season ahead
Saturday 4 December 2027 · 2:00–6:00pm
In December, the garden has gone quiet.
The flowers have faded, the light is lower and much of what is happening now is hidden beneath the surface. It can be easy to mistake stillness for nothing happening at all.
Winter’s Promise is an invitation to slow down, step away from the pressure of the season and remember that you do not have to be constantly achieving to be growing.
We’ll begin outside with warming drinks and a short burst of energising movement on the lawn — stretching, mobility and mindful movement to wake up the body and get the blood flowing before we put our hands into the soil.
Then you’ll create your own spring container to take home.
With a choice of tulips, narcissi and other spring bulbs, together with seasonal planting to give your pot beauty from the very beginning, I’ll show you how to combine, layer and plant everything before leaving plenty of room for you to make it entirely your own.
As we work, we’ll begin to explore some of the pressures that can become particularly loud at this time of year — unfinished goals, Christmas expectations, the things we thought we would have achieved by now and the quiet ways we sometimes use those things as evidence that we are somehow falling short.
Later, as the light begins to fade, we’ll gather around the wood burner with candles, blankets and something warm and comforting to eat.
Over bowls of seasonal vegetarian food, crusty bread and unhurried conversation, we’ll move into a deeper Conscious Conversation about self-acceptance, the expectations we carry and the beliefs about ourselves we may no longer want to take with us.
Not another list of resolutions.
Not another demand to become a better version of yourself.
Just the possibility that where you are now might already be worthy of kindness.
You’ll have time with your own BLISS & Bloom reflection booklet, considering what you rarely give yourself credit for, what you are ready to stop using as evidence that you are not enough, and what you would like to nurture more gently in the season ahead.
And before we finish, you’ll make one quiet commitment:
Your Winter’s Promise
Not a goal to achieve, but a promise about how you want to treat yourself.
Perhaps to trust your own pace.
To stop measuring yourself against somebody else’s timeline.
To rest without having to earn it.
To speak to yourself with more kindness.
Or simply to remember that you can be enough and still be growing.
You may choose one word from that promise to add discreetly to the label in your planted pot.
Then, when the first shoots begin to appear months later, perhaps they’ll remind you of something you already knew:
not everything needs to be visible to be becoming.
What to expect
4 hours · 2:00–6:00pm
Approximately 8 women
Held in my garden in South East London
Your pot, bulbs, plants and all planting materials included
Vegetarian food, warming drinks and something sweet included
Reflection booklet and materials included
No gardening or movement experience needed
Come warmly dressed in comfortable clothing suitable for spending time outdoors
£105 per person
Spring in Bloom
Flowers, creativity & new beginnings
Saturday 29 April 2028 · 11:00am–3:00pm
By the end of April, the garden has properly woken up.
Fresh foliage is unfurling, tulips are glowing through the borders, narcissi are still dancing in places and spring flowers are appearing with that wonderfully fleeting quality that makes you want to gather them while you can.
Spring in Bloom is a joyful celebration of flowers, creativity and the courage to begin something new.
You’ll arrive through the white-ish garden to tea and freshly brewed coffee before we make our way into the back garden, where a beautifully laid spring garden tea will be waiting.
Think pretty teapots and teacups, tiered stands, delicate sandwiches, little savoury bites, cakes and other spring treats — a proper garden tea table designed to be lingered over while we settle in, talk and enjoy being together.
As we eat, I’ll introduce the theme of the day: new beginnings.
Not the pressure to reinvent yourself, but the quieter possibility of listening to what has been calling you for a while. The thing you’ve wondered about, wanted to try or perhaps talked yourself out of because it felt unfamiliar, impractical or simply unlike the person other people expect you to be.
You’ll have some private time with your BLISS & Bloom reflection booklet to explore what you’re curious about, what may have been holding you back and what you might be ready to give yourself permission to begin.
Then we’ll leave the table and wander through the spring garden.
I’ll show you what is flowering, share a little about growing and cutting flowers for the vase, and point out which stems you’re welcome to gather for your own bouquet. Some flowers will already be cut and conditioned, others will be growing in pots ready for you to choose from, and a selection of accessible stems in the garden will be yours to gather.
Waiting back at the table will be an abundance of seasonal material — tulips, narcissi, anemones, scented stocks, early alliums, fresh foliage and whatever else the garden is offering us that week.
I’ll demonstrate how to create a loose, generous hand-tied bouquet, showing you the basic technique and how I think about colour, shape, proportion and movement.
Then it’s over to you.
Choose the flowers you love. Trust your eye. Try something. Change your mind. Ask for as much or as little help as you need.
There is no single correct bouquet.
Once everyone has finished, we’ll tie and wrap the flowers beautifully in printed paper and ribbon, take a few photographs and come together one last time before saying goodbye.
And perhaps leave with one final question:
What are you giving yourself permission to begin?
Spring reminds us every year that beginning again is completely ordinary. The garden doesn’t apologise for becoming different from what it was last season — and neither do we have to.
You’ll leave carrying your own generous spring bouquet, your BLISS & Bloom reflection booklet and a little thank-you note from me.
What to expect
4 hours · 11:00am–3:00pm
Approximately 8 women
Held in my garden in South East London
Spring garden tea, hot drinks and refreshments included
All flowers, foliage and bouquet-making materials included
Your BLISS & Bloom reflection booklet included
No floristry or gardening experience needed
Your finished hand-tied bouquet is yours to take home
£115 per person
You're very welcome here
You don’t need to know anything about gardening, arrive with anyone else, or have anything figured out before you come.
These gatherings are simply an invitation to spend a little time in the garden, enjoy the season we’re in and make some space for yourself.
If you have a question about a gathering, accessibility, dietary requirements or anything else that would help you feel comfortable joining us, I’d be very happy to hear from you.