Summer Hapa Zome Workshop
Learn all about the art of Hapa Zome, have a ago and take home your creation. Hapa Zome is a fun and creative way of connecting art and nature. Originally…
Pictures of Spring – drawing inspiration from Edith Holden
Expert or beginner – all are welcome to spend and hour or two ‘taking a line for a walk’ and creating drawings in, and of, the Gardens. Having ‘adopted’ local…
Basket-Weaving Workshop
Join Birmingham artist Ildiko Nagy for a full day’s workshop on basket-weaving. Basket-Weaving Have you ever thought of making your own basket and learning about ancient willow weaving techniques? This…
International Womens Day 2025
There are already some ‘standout’ women’s names associated with the Gardens here, and many more who should, and could, be celebrated more! Today we’re celebrating two particular women; Edith Holden…
Poetry resources from Ian MacMillan
Gardens inspire poetry, poetry inspires Gardens. The urge to be creative during lockdown has been fuelled, happily, by many tv programmes, blogs and online memes. Hopefully the creativity will not be…
Memories made real
A volunteer and member of the U3A (university of the third age) Art Class, which takes place in the Gardens, sent us some lovely pictures she has painted during the…
turning stony faces into smiles
Our call out for your SmileStone creations to build ‘social distancing’ markers in the Gardens is beginning to take of… These have been delivered to our gates in the last…
Add a smile(stone) to social distancing
When we re-open the Gardens – whenever that will be – we know that social distancing will be a ‘new normal’ for some while… So, the (still working) team here…
Geocaching – treasure hunting with a phone.
We love treasure hunts of all kinds in the Gardens.. We know too that there are lots of other seek and find activities in and around the Gardens, the historic…
Hello bunting…
Looking forward… Volunteers have been central to pretty well every event and activity in the Gardens for decades, we are really missing their input and daily conversation. So many people…