Bluebell Visitor Day
Tortworth Forest Centre Tortworth Arboretum, Off Tortworth Road, Wotton Under Edge, South Gloucestershire, United KingdomThis month we’re celebrating a forest floor spectacle as bluebells carpet the arboretum!
This month we’re celebrating a forest floor spectacle as bluebells carpet the arboretum!
You are invited to an extra special pre-dawn tour of Tortworth Arboretum. A dawn chorus walk is an invigorating and rewarding way to begin a day. We'll meet at the Roundhouse at 5am (yes it's early, but it's only one day and we promise it will be worth it!) for an introduction to the different...
Spend a relaxing day in the woods enjoying good food and company around the fire. We will spend some time talking about foraging and more historical methods of cooking and food production, then concentrating on the more easily identifiable and readily available plants we will collect some out in the woods before returning to the...
Join our Event Manager, Katy, for a happy ramble around the arboretum during this beautiful season. We'll learn about facts, figures and folklore around bluebells, and why they grow here in such abundance.
Are you sometimes out for a walk and see something you would like to collect but think oh, I wish I had brought a bag with me? Well this is your chance to solve this problem and create yourself something to be proud of at the same time. Come and make your very own extending...
Join us on 18th May for a self-guided walk through the tranquil Dell of Tortworth Arboretum. This month we’re celebrating one of our favourite specimens, the Handkerchief Tree!
Spend a relaxing few hours on a summers evening enjoying working with the wonderful aroma of lavender. Learn how to make lavender wands to place around your home to ensure a lasting scent of calm. And create some natural products using lavender to make the most of its natural relaxing and calming qualities. Knowledge required:...
Nettles are amazing plants; no only do they provide us with the materials to make stinging nettle cordage, they’re also edible, full of nutrients and have medicinal properties. Did you know that nettles have been made to make everything from binding, necklaces cords, bracelets, hafting tools, nets, small baskets etc for more than 3000 years?...
This month we’re celebrating some of our most ancient specimens, the Chestnuts!
Join us in September to hunt for bats on a unique guided night walk through the arboretum.
Join us on 21st September as we celebrate the equinox and the arrival of Autumn to the arboretum.
This is the third Nature Connection Session from Wild&Well; part of a series based on the 5 pathways to Nature Connection