Workshop: Balcony Gardening: Making Space for Wildlife
This classroom-based workshop is an opportunity to explore how even the smallest spaces can make a significant contribution to wildlife in the city. We’ll look at how a balcony or terrace can act as important refuge for insects travelling between green spaces or a place for birds to rehydrate or bathe during a heat wave. It can even become part of the local ecosystem.
Together, we will cover:
Wildlife-friendly plant selection for containers
Creating tiny ponds
Composting and nutrients
Maintenance and how to create a thriving wildlife balcony garden
Create a design plan for your balcony
Open to everyone interested in making space for wildlife on their balcony, terrace or small space where plants cannot be rooted into the ground.
We will spend a large portion of this workshop in the classroom but will venture into the garden to look at plants and wildlife.
Meet Sarah
Sarah’s foremost interest is in natural history, studying the plants and animals through observation in the field - a pastime that is open to everybody! Sarah enjoys learning how to identify species and develop an understanding of the relationships between organisms within an ecosystem. Sarah has a particular interest in moths and has undertaken close to 100 moth surveys in London and led the Moth Biodiversity project at Walworth Garden in 2022.
Most recently, Sarah has been working as a Warden on lowland heathland during the ground-nesting bird breeding season. Prior to this, she was a Garden and Plant Centre Supervisor at Walworth Garden.
You can find Sarah on Instagram at @creature_films
Price: £85/ Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per year. 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, but this 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, which will be sent to you via email. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed.
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