Botanical tours
Approximately 2 hours — All ages
Tour themes
- Discovering wild edible plants
- Discovering edible and medicinal plants along the GR34 coastal path
- Gemmotherapy and healing trees
- How to garden naturally
- How biodiversity brings balance and health to the garden
- Plants that were eaten in the Middle Ages
- Plants that were used as medicine in the Middle Ages
- Native American vegetables
- Sweet-making plants
- Discovering edible and medicinal plants in your own garden
Workshops
Approximately 2.5 hours — All ages
Our workshops
Edible flowers
Smell — Taste — Learn how to preserve them for cooking.
Wild edible plant cooking
Harvesting. Identification. Recipes.
Wild edible plant and edible flower meal
Make your own sweets
Plant harvesting — Sweet-making — Tasting — Recipes
Aromatic plants
Presentation, variety and subjectivity of aromas and flavours. Followed by a herbal tea blending workshop
Fruit and vegetables
40 tomato varieties, 10 squash varieties, heritage vegetables
Insects and plants
Pollination. Building shelters for beneficial insects.
Mulching
Making mulch, its role in soil life, observation under a binocular microscope
Plant liquid feeds
Harvesting — Brewing — Storing — Uses
Sowing in the vegetable garden
Seed diversity, companion planting, crop rotation, green manures
Taking cuttings
Types of cuttings. Hands-on practice.
Herbarium of edible flowers or wild salad plants
Willow weaving
Living willow braiding (February only)
Lectures
Florence Goulley offers lectures on the theme of edible plants
Edible flowers
Identification, Uses, Recipes
Wild edible plants
Plants in the Middle Ages
Biodiversity in the garden
Plant liquid feeds
The history of sweets and the plants used to make them
Medieval-inspired gardens
Some venues where we have given these lectures
Medieval garden design
We design medieval-inspired gardens in Brittany
Saint Jean garden in Lamballe
Designed in June 2011. Visit website — View gallery
Cloister garden at Lehon and town centre
Designed in 2013. Read article
Plant sales
March to end of June, every morning from 9:30am to noon (including Sundays and public holidays)
We offer young plants to grow in your garden or greenhouse. These are mainly plants for culinary use: edible flowers, heritage vegetables, seasonings and aromatics, herbal teas, tropical aromatics, sweet-making plants and assorted salads.
We also offer simples (medicinal plants used in the Middle Ages), dye plants, and plants for making plant-based treatments.