Workshop: Ferns and Spores: Sowing and Cultivating
This practical and theoretical workshop is an opportunity to learn more about the fern life cycle, how they reproduce and how you can grow your own from spore to adult and back again.
We’ll explore:
The stages of a fern’s life
What a fern spore is and where to find them
How to collect and store spores for sowing
How to sow spores and grow them on
This session is ideal for anyone who has ever been entranced by the subtle beauty of a fern frond but is mystified at the prospect of growing them. This session will prove it’s easier than you think; often all you need is patience.
You will leave with the confidence and skill to start propagating the ferns you find in your world, as well as your own sown pot of spores to take with you to watch them green up and grow.
Meet Richard
Richard is an active member of London’s community gardening movement, facilitating networking and peer-to-peer training with Social Farms & Gardens, and delivering nature engagement and community food growing activities across the city. Previously, he trained as a horticulturist with the RHS, Cambridge Botanic Garden and Kew Gardens. He has been growing ferns for 5 years now, and can often be found anxiously peering and poking into pots of spores, willing the unfolding of ferny magic to go faster.
Price: £85/ Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per academic year (Oct 23- Jul 24). To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK23’ under ‘Redeem Coupon’.
You will then be charged a £10 deposit in order to claim your place, this deposit will be refunded to you after you attend the workshop.
Please note that you will be required to fill in a Southwark Council form, including some personal information, in order to confirm your place on a workshop. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed in full.