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Terrariums: Growing a Self-Sustaining World

  • Walworth Garden 206 Manor Place London, England, SE17 3BN United Kingdom (map)

Workshop: Terrariums: Growing a Self-Sustaining World

Join our terrarium expert Sanjana for an exploration of cacti, succulent and tropical plants at Walworth Garden, and how to use them to grow your own self-sustaining world. You’ll discover the magnificence of plants’ evolutionary adaptations, applying your new knowledge in a practical session, and leave with your own terrarium.

We will be covering:

  • The fascination of terrariums: your own miniature world

  • How to divide and replant to create an attractive terrarium display

  • The basic science of terrariums, and how they can be a ‘closed’ system that can live for hundreds of years

  • The differences between ‘tropical’ and ‘dry’ terrariums: plants to select, plants to avoid, and how to care for them

  • A practical session creating terrariums using recycled jars, peat-free compost and other sustainable materials

Participants are encouraged to bring their own jar to use as their terrarium, preferably with a lid and preferably a minimum of 2L in volume. Some recycled jars will be available from Walworth Garden in limited sizes and shapes.


Meet Sanjana

Sanjana is landscape gardener and a paper hoarding horticulturist, with a passion for anything creative and kitsch. Evidence of her skills can be seen all across the Garden - as our Plant Centre Supervisors, she is responsible for many of the beautiful, creative displays.


Price: £85

Note for Southwark residents: Looking to book a free place? Unfortunately, our limited quota of free places for the 2022-23 academic year have now been claimed. We will be releasing a refreshed number of free places, along with a new calendar of workshops, in Autumn 2023 so please check back then. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on social media, at the bottom of this page, to be notified.

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