Rare Plant Botanic Art Workshop

The Garden Pot Workshop is a plant nursery on Sydney's Northern Beaches, that encourages human connection with nature by promoting container gardening.Botanical garden pots can be filled with a diversity of plants including, succulents, ferns, perennials, annuals, mosses, indoor plants, water-plants, even vegetables and small fruit trees. Our hands on, practical gardening classes provide all plants, pots, associated materials and demonstrations required for you to create your own garden pots with guided supervision at our specialist 'Bonsai' style nursery, designed specifically for making gardens in pots. Our potting bench workstations are ergonomically designed making these gardening activities easy and comfortable. At The Garden Pot Workshop, we provide practical demonstrations and discussions to show you how to build and maintain garden pots, including topics such as: How to handle plants & seedlings Mixing soil for garden pots Garden pot drainage requirements How to adjust sunlight & shade How to pull apart and re-pot overgrown container gardens. Pruning, training/directing the growth of plant lifeIdentifying some common pests and diseases Watering your plantsPropagating new plants by division or cuttings & germinating seedsAbout the Instructor:Daniel Rosenbaum is a Horticulturalist, Designer & Sculptor with a background teaching Design at universities in Sydney (UTS, UNSW & TAFE). Over the past 10 years Daniel has established the Garden Pot Workshop as a rare plant nursery & sculpture studio that makes innovative container gardens with a diversity of plant life. Daniel gained inspiration to start the Garden Pot Workshop during Post Graduate studies into Ceramics at the Nation Art School in Sydney where he conducted research into Horticultural Therapy, Healing Gardens & 'Greening City' movements.