Ignite your imagination
Combine a lodge stay with a unique seasonal flowering workshop with our partners La Fete Fleurie
A Celebration of Christmas Retreat
Dates: 23rd November 2024.
Spark your imagination with a magical creative retreat at Brook Meadow, with an exclusive Christmas floristry and festive entertaining course with La Fete Fleurie combined with a 3-night lakeside lodge stay.
Arrive on the Friday to find a luxury hamper waiting for you in your accommodation. The course is spread over two days; you’ll have one day immersed in flowering; making a wreath, natural decorations such as flower baubles and pomanders, mini garlands with a host of festive table settings & centrepieces. Sunday will be focused on festive entertaining, involving a demonstration of canapés and cocktails that you can eat and drink afterwards! You’ll make wonderful gifts of chocolate bark, cocktail syrups, flavoured oils and potted bulbs. You’ll take all the gifts you create home in a basket with instructions so you can recreate more at home for unique homemade presents.
Spark your imagination with a magical creative retreat at Brook Meadow, with an exclusive Christmas floristry and festive entertaining course with La Fete Fleurie combined with a 3-night lakeside lodge stay.
Arrive on the Friday to find a luxury hamper waiting for you in your accommodation. The course is spread over two days; you’ll have one day immersed in flowering; making a wreath, natural decorations such as flower baubles and pomanders, mini garlands with a host of festive table settings & centrepieces. Sunday will be focused on festive entertaining, involving a demonstration of canapés and cocktails that you can eat and drink afterwards! You’ll make wonderful gifts of chocolate bark, cocktail syrups, flavoured oils and potted bulbs. You’ll take all the gifts you create home in a basket with instructions so you can recreate more at home for unique homemade presents.
Christmas Entertaining,
Decorating and Gift Making
Decorating and Gift Making
The process of working with our hands, learning new techniques and opening to new ideas and possibilities can make us more engaged with our minds and our bodies. As we become fully absorbed in the process of making with the space to explore your creativity we hope you will feel inspired and invigorated when going home with all your new skills and the beautiful things you have made.
Our intimate retreats courses take place at Nicola’s oak-framed floristry studio just 1 mile from Brook Meadow. This stunning setting and everything Nicola seems to to have touched can’t help but inspire.
Our intimate retreats courses take place at Nicola’s oak-framed floristry studio just 1 mile from Brook Meadow. This stunning setting and everything Nicola seems to to have touched can’t help but inspire.
FAQs
cost of the courses£150 for the 2-day courses plus the cost of the accommodation, (price varies on the lodge and the number staying).
1-day courses are £90 per person plus the cost of the accommodation, (price varies on the lodge and the number staying). How many People can attend the WORKSHOPS?We have just 6 spots on the course and flexible accommodation to sleep up to 16 in total, depending on what you book.
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Does everyone staying in the accommodation have to attend the course?It’s flexible; you might book one or two lodges with some friends and share accommodation as much or as little as you like; eg. book a lodge for 2 but if you’d like to share with more friends you might book it for 4 and the price is adjusted a little accordingly. Alternatively book lodges with your partners and leave them behind when you go to the workshops!
what's the COMPLIMENTARY hamper like?The hamper of your choice will be made up for the number of guests staying in your lodge.
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Easter Creative Retreat
Sat 23rd March 2024
Combine a lodge stay with a unique seasonal flowering workshop.
Workshop guests will enjoy a lovely walk to gather foliage from the farm hedgerows to use for their living wreath, using sustainably-sourced moss to gently envelope bulbs and spring plants so they can continue to grow and flower on the wreath in the weeks to come.
Taking place... participants will also have the opportunity to make spring-inspired table decorations to take away and enjoy a two-course seasonal lunch. All refreshments and materials need for the day are included.
Combine a lodge stay with a unique seasonal flowering workshop.
Workshop guests will enjoy a lovely walk to gather foliage from the farm hedgerows to use for their living wreath, using sustainably-sourced moss to gently envelope bulbs and spring plants so they can continue to grow and flower on the wreath in the weeks to come.
Taking place... participants will also have the opportunity to make spring-inspired table decorations to take away and enjoy a two-course seasonal lunch. All refreshments and materials need for the day are included.
Easter Retreat Pricing
- £90 Includes a 2-course lunch and all the things you make
- A luxury hamper for your lodge is included in the price of your stay too
- The cost of your lodge