Enjoy an afternoon of flowers, food and wine at Cotley. Guests will take part in a hands-on floral workshop led by Kate and Patrick of Backyard Flowers, creating a seasonal table arrangement to take home, along with all the tools needed to recreate it again.

Each guest to get their own flower bowl, snips, flower frog (kenzan), small plastic bucket, chicken wire, tape etc for work and will keep those for themselves to repeat at home if they wish and 3 course supper with wines from Sandridge Barton. 

Kate & Patrick from Backyard flowers will run the floral display workshop and talk about how they set up a flower farm in Somerset after moving from London. 

We will also be joined by the team from Sandridge Barton (our wine partner) who will talk about English Wine and the Vineyard on the banks of the River Dart. 

Head Chef Dan Brown has designed a menu to be enjoyed ‘feasting style’ with produce from our kitchen yard and the Cotley estate. The tables will be dressed with the floral displays that everyone makes and food will be served at Golden hour in the garden on the lawn at the Cotley. 

Roughly 1.5h workshop: 

1) live demo of the table flowers along with a talk about sustainability, using garden flowers, colour theory etc etc (15-20min) 

2) participants gather their flowers of choice from the flower bar (15 min) 

3) participants make their arrangements under help and guidance (30-45min) 

4) remove the arrangements, clean and dress table, set up candles, arrange the floral bowl down the centre of the table (15-20min)