Create your own miniture landscape: A beginner Penjing workshop

Step into the enchanting world of penjing and create your very own miniature living landscape.

This workshop is inspired by the Chinese botanical art form of Penjing, which roughly translates to ‘scenery in a pot’. Traditionally Penjing references natural Chinese landscapes to recreate them in a miniature potted form.

This workshop is an accessible interpretation of this ancient craft, specifically re-worked for a contemporary urban lifestyle.

In this hands-on beginner workshop, you’ll learn the basics of designing and planting a small-scale landscape using living plants, moss, rocks and miniature features. Rather than simply creating a potted plant, you’ll be creating a tiny world with its own sense of place, scale and story.

You’ll start with a bonsai-style pot and select from a collection of baby plants, including ferns and other miniature-friendly varieties. From there, you’ll build your landscape layer by layer with potting mix, pebbles, moss and feature rocks, learning how to arrange your plants to create depth, balance and a natural-looking composition.

Then comes the really fun part: adding tiny details.

Choose from/or make miniature buildings, bridges, animals and other little features to give your landscape its own character and story. Perhaps you’ll create a mossy mountain forest, a tranquil rock garden, a peaceful woodland village or a charming microcosm of your own design…

No previous gardening, bonsai or penjing experience is needed;  just bring your imagination!

Everything you need is provided, including your pot, plants, growing materials, moss, rocks, a selection of miniature features, and polymer clay to create your own. As well as care instruction for your new little landscape to thrive.

Come and create a tiny world of your own.