Description
Sip floral fizz while decorating your own cake with stunning edible flowers!
Saturday 19 October 3 – 5pm or Tuesday 22 October 12.30 – 2.30pm
Join us for an enchanting workshop with Marion Smith from Petal & Co, the Canterbury expert in growing and supplying stunning edible flowers. Learn the secrets of growing, picking, and identifying these beautiful blooms, and discover how to elevate your culinary creations with their vibrant colours and flavours. Learn about safe growing methods, how to identify non-toxic edible flowers, and enjoy tasting recipes that incorporate these blooms into your cooking.
Hands-On Decorating: Bring along an un-iced cake or sponge for decorating. We’ll provide buttercream (or icing sugar), so you can create your own edible masterpiece with Marion’s guidance to take home and enjoy.
Tutor: Marion Smith
Marion has a small flower farm just outside Rangiora where she specialises in growing edible flowers for Christchurch hospitality businesses, as well as keen bakers and home cooks who aspire to take their special creations to the next level.
Petal & Co was created in 2017 with the aim of providing a local source of edible flowers to ensure the utmost freshness of these delicate beauties. To this end when the flowers are in season she delivers into Christchurch three times a week, and ties this in with doing shifts at The Pantry inside Riverside Market where she sells her dried edible flowers and cut flower bouquets.
Marion uses sustainable and regenerative methods to make certain her flowers have optimum flavour and longevity, while ensuring her business has only a positive impact on the environment. She is MPI registered sas a food supply business, and grows over 50 varieties of edible and non toxic flowers.
Marion has long been immersed in all aspects of gardening and grew up in a green-fingered family where she was always surrounded by trees and flowers. Her business Petal & Co is a joyful culmination of her interests in food, flowers, and creativity.
Join us at The Kiosk, Christchurch Botanic GardensTe Māra Huaota o Waipapa
(Just over the footbridge from the Armagh St carpark). Free parking is available for the duration.
Tel: 366 6937
Email: office@chsgardens.co.nz
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Costs & Payment
$45 Members & Friends of the Christchurch Botanic Gardens
$60 Non-Members
$105 Course + CHS Membership
Price includes materials and self-serve tea, coffee and biscuits
**Reserve your spot today. Limited places available.**
Become a Member of the CHS and receive up to 30% off all our courses and workshops
Please note, our courses are aimed at adults. If you are under 18 or wish to bring along tamariki please contact us before booking so we can check with our tutors. Nga mihi, CHS team
