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2 hour workshop
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Looking for a relaxed, peaceful and creative few hours? Escape the City with the Botanicalboys in their private green, peaceful workshop and you will find your creative when you design your very own eco-terrarium garden. An extremely low maintenance self watering environment to take home with you inside a large glass vase.
The eco-system in a jar, is a miniature greenhouse of living plants that thrive off moisture. You will learn the whys and how's for making a self contained living botanical environment.
You will use colourful plants, mosses, rocks, soil and miniature objects to turn your eco-system into a beautiful living miniature world.
We will provide you with a lovely large 3 ltr glass jar, a range of colourful plants, beautiful green mosses and other fun objects to help personalise your garden.
You will take your new garden home in a Botanical Boys gift bag with aftercare instruction leaflet.
We look forward to hosting you in our beautiful green, peaceful studio.
Botanical Boys also teach companies to enhance the wellbeing of their staff by giving teams the chance to create their very own indoor garden to display on their desks. Through experience we have enhanced the productivity of staff and shifted the happiness scale through terrarium design classes.
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Sat 20 Oct, 11:00am - 1:00pm
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Sun 21 Oct, 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Wed 31 Oct, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Wed 23 Jan, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Wed 30 Jan, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Wed 20 Feb, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Thu 21 Feb, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Sat 23 Feb, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
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Wed 27 Feb, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Thu 28 Feb, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Sat 2 Mar, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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Wed 6 Mar, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Wed 20 Mar, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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Sat 30 Mar, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
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Sun 31 Mar, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
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Did you know?
Did you know, that by making a terrarium eco-system you wil be helping to save a piece of Mother Nature for years to come! What a beautiful gift to give!
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Flexitime Class
This is a Flexitime class, which means the teacher can run this class around your schedule.
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Reviews (41)
Jude
30 Nov
Such a great way to spend a cold winter’s evening! The Botancial boys were perfect hosts and very knowledgable. Lots of great materials were made available and the prosecco was the perfect touch! Will definitely be signing up again!
Izzie
30 Jan
I can't recommend this class enough. I'm a big obby fan and I have been to some great classes, but this has by far been my favourite experience.
My sister and I were lucky enough to be the only ones in our session, and Darren and Ben made us feel so welcome in their studio. Darren's excellent reaching gave us the perfect amount of knowledge to confidently build a really unique terrarium each. There was a huge variety of materials for us to work with and we were told all about the fascinating history of the art of terrarium making. The prosecco was also a wonderful touch!
The Eco-system jar we came away with was absolutely beautiful, I've already received so many compliments on it. Will definitely be creating some more!
Thank you Botanical Boys!
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Jude
30 Nov
Such a great way to spend a cold winter’s evening! The Botancial boys were perfect hosts and very knowledgable. Lots of great materials were made available and the prosecco was the perfect touch! Will definitely be signing up again!
Izzie
30 Jan
I can't recommend this class enough. I'm a big obby fan and I have been to some great classes, but this has by far been my favourite experience.
My sister and I were lucky enough to be the only ones in our session, and Darren and Ben made us feel so welcome in their studio. Darren's excellent reaching gave us the perfect amount of knowledge to confidently build a really unique terrarium each. There was a huge variety of materials for us to work with and we were told all about the fascinating history of the art of terrarium making. The prosecco was also a wonderful touch!
The Eco-system jar we came away with was absolutely beautiful, I've already received so many compliments on it. Will definitely be creating some more!
Thank you Botanical Boys!
Emma
17 Mar
This was a great way to spend a Friday evening. We not only got to build terrariums, but were also taught how to do it ourselves in the future. I'd definitely do more events with the Botanical Boys in the future 🙂
Roxy
21 May
A wonderful relaxing afternoon with the botanical boys! Would highly recommend.
Georgina
10 Jun
Amazing workshop in a gorgeous setting. I had so much fun whilst learning loads about plants and drinking prosecco....what’s not to LOVE!
would throughly recommend this class to anyone. So excited to have a self sufficient jar of nature coming home to live with me for years to come!
Karen
2 Jul
I had a great time and learnt loads about terrariums, I’m super keen to go again and I would recommend it to everyone
Riccardo
1 Aug
Had a thoroughly good time. Really liked that once you were taught the basics and shown what to do, the guys gave you plenty of time to do your own thing. Also amazing that a room of strangers felt like friends by the time I left.
Enya
3 Aug
This was beautiful one life experience workshop! Very welcoming and very good mentor Darren and Ben.
Defenitely doing one again in mid August and Christmas
Quentin
2 Sep
The class is very relaxing and the host very interesting. Our terrarium are now sitting proudly in our living room and we can't wait to have guests to show off a bit!
Ali
16 Sep
Darren and Ben were great. We loved the history lesson and the teaching. Taking home our terrarium we had huge smiles on our faces. Thanks Botanical boys!
Simone
17 Sep
I was happy with the terrarium we created during the workshop, and overall it was a good experience. I would have liked things to kick off a bit more quickly, though, with less of an introduction of the history of the workshop/brand, and also had a bit more conversation at the end about other techniques for making terrariums/materials and ideas for doing them at home.
Iolanda
30 Nov
I absolutely loved this class! It was a lot of fun and really therapeutic, and my terrarium came out absolutely awesome! The guys are very knowledgeable and the space they use for the workshop is gorgeous, it looks like a greenhouse! I'll definitely do one of their other classes :)
Tracy
3 Dec
It’s not every class that lets you create your very own world! I loved every second of this class. Darren and Ben were very welcoming and told us just enough about the history of terrariums and gave lots of inspiration on how to create our own. My jar is thriving and I’ve been telling everyone how much I loved this.
Alexia
23 Jan
I gave this to someone as a Christmas present and had a great time making two lovely Terrariums. It was very informational but also relaxing and we were very well received by the Botanical Boys, I would definitely recommend this.
Catherine
5 Feb
Really fun afternoon and a bautiful terrarium to take home!
Louise
27 Mar
We had a fantastic evening with the Botanical Boys learning about and building our own terrariums. Amazing working space with so much inspiration from the terrariums around the room and expert advice from the boys. Loved it and think everyone should try it, it's so relaxing and you have a beautiful unique ecosystem at the end. Thank you boys :)
Heloise
27 Mar
Absolutely amazing evening! The guys were so informative, fun and friendly and let us bombard them with plant related questions. Have recommended this workshop to everyone who will listen to me!!!
J
28 Mar
So friendly and helpful! I had a great time and brought away a beautiful terrarium
Dani
19 Apr
Really fun class and good selection of materials!
Adeline
30 Apr
This was such an educational and therapeutic session. I learnt so much and it was such a relaxed atmosphere creating, planting and sipping prosecco! Can’t wait to do another!
Guy
30 Apr
This workshop was wonderful. The boys are very welcoming and the class itself is both informative and enjoyable. The quality of the materials provided was also very good. We found the experience incredibly relaxing and loved having our terrariums to take home at the end of it. Thoroughly recommend.
Laura
2 May
Amazing! I had a really good time and left with a beautiful terrarium. Defiantly worth a visit.
Hattie
5 May
SO MUCH FUN! This was our first obby experience and what a great one it was - it was informative, friendly, fun, and we came away with sonething which will hopefully last a good long time. Just the two of us in the class, and Darren and Ben were fab. Loved it and would fully recommend - even my boyfriend, who is not normally the creative type, said it was the best Friday night he’d had in years!
Jack
7 May
The Terrarium making class was excellent. Darren and Ben were great fun and we really learnt a lot.
I would highly recommend the class to anyone, and the product we came away with looks great in our home.
Diana
10 May
The terrariums workshop was really enjoyable. Darren gave us a lot of information about the history and the techniques around terrariums. The space was beautiful and the atmosphere was very pleasant. Would recommend to anyone wanting to disconnect from the rush of everyday life!
Ryan
11 May
I could not have picked a better class as my first Obby booking. Darren and Ben are exceptional; so friendly, welcoming and knowledgeable. The entire experience was fun, educational, relaxing, artistic, creative; we loved every second of it! Highly, highly recommended; I'm telling everyone about it!
Janine
13 Jun
What a fantastic way to spend a few hours. The Botanical Boys were excellent hosts welcoming us into their home. Some people may feel uncomfortable with this but for us this made the experience more personal and relaxed . Being in a small group meant that there was great opportunity for interaction between the boys and guests. It was educational, fun and very therapeutic and best of all we came away with our own terrarium creations. No previous experience or creative talent required just go with the flow. This was booked as a birthday surprise. I’m definitely going again with my friends as my enthusing has been contagious. I highly recommend the Botanical Boys experience.
Suzie
9 Jul
We had a magnificent time at the workshop. I was really worried that I wouldn't be any "good", but we were led through the process and came away with terrariums that we love. Very therapeutic!
Laura
10 Jul
I can thoroughly recommend this workshop - the venue is amazing (what décor!) and you are offered so much help and guidance to make a beautiful terrarium. The time was very calm and relaxing - I left feeling very zen!
Muresan
3 Aug
I really enjoyed the workshop. It was two hours of inner stillness, creativity, life and also great pieces of information regarding Terrariums. Loved it.
Lucy
9 Aug
Darren and Ben were so friendly and welcoming into their beautifully decorated flat in east London. Darren was so knowledgeable and extremely patient when guiding us through the steps. I am not typically a creative person but I found it really inspiring and actually left with a terrarium I was proud of. Would strongly recommend going as it really was a relaxing and enjoyable couple of hours with endless glasses of prosecco and a terrarium that you get to take home, what more could you want!!
Jennifer
31 Aug
Darren was a gorgeous host with lot of experience! I can absolutely recommend this course to everybody who is interested in plants and terrarium!
Very professional course in a lovely location.
Rosie
2 Sep
This class was so much fun - Darren is fantastic as is his apartment
Came away with a brilliant product - highly recommend
Rosie
Louise
2 Sep
Loved that we learnt some history and background to terrarium making and that little skill is needed to achieve something. I’m inspired to keep doing it and will 100% recommend the class to others + it’s perfect for a corporate activity. Really great class!
Ntina
2 Sep
what a relaxing experience!
Kavita
26 Sep
We had a really great time at this class. Ben and Darren were lovely and made the experience fantastic - great hosts and lots of knowledge. I would definitely recommend doing this class and will be booking again!
Marley
29 Sep
Great session! Going again for sure!
Peu
29 Sep
Darren & Ben were the perfect hosts, teachers - they have a beautiful studio/home. The class was chilled, educational and the perfect birthday present for my best friend. The quality of the plants, materials + teaching, the amazing terrarium vase you take home with you was way beyond expectations!
Oyvind
30 Sep
Great workshop! So much fun, ended up with a fab terrarium to take home and learned a lot too. We've tried other workshops were everything is very 'measured' - it says's one glass of prosecco, so you get one glass, class finishing on the exact time. But here class overran by 45 minutes because everyone were having so much fun and wanted to take photos etc in the end, everyone got several fill ups on prosecco, no limit on how many plants or items you wanted in your terrarium. Ben and Darren knows a lot about plants, have a lovely home/studio and created a really friendly and relaxed atmosphere. Would highly recommend the Botanical Boys to anyone who wants to try something new!
Nadia
4 Oct
We had a great time making our terrariums with Darren from Botanical Boys. He was very knowledgeable, telling us the history behind them and talking us through each step of making the terrarium. There was a great choice of materials for us to make them unique, and the prosecco was great too! Would highly recommend this class :)
Jenny
11 Oct
This class was great, amazing setting to hold such a creative workshop and am delighted with my new terrarium!
Class location
Dalston
50b Independent Place
E8 2HE
london
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About your host, Botanical Boys
Ben and Daz of The Botanical Boys began their journey in 2009 when they took over a terraced garden in London Fields with a Japanese & formal English segments. Having no gardening experience prior, they really got stuck in and become members of the National Garden Scheme and opened up the space to the public for charity every year. They were selected for a spot on the BBC Great British Garden Revival program in May 2015 and were featured in a number of books and publications.
After a few assignments and holiday trips to South Africa and California it was succulents and their ability to be used in many structural forms, as with their sculpted Japanese and formal topiary English garden that led to a passion for creating designs on a smaller scale using air plants, cacti, succulents and a range of mosses creating beautiful terrariums.
Their love for plants and terrariums is infectious and people who join them on their workshops not only make a beautiful terrarium, but are taught about all the natural elements involved as well as provided aftercare instruction.
Notes
We provide hot and cold drinks throughout your class as well as a gift bag, plants, glass vases, education on making a terrarium and of course, lot's of fun and relaxation.
Requirements
18 no experience required. We will accept children from 15 with a parent present.
Flexible cancellation policy
Any class can be cancelled and fully refunded within 24 hours of purchase. See cancellation policy.