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Create a stunning desert scape with the colours of the country and cacti!
2 hours
Port Noarlunga
5 to 14 guests
$119
(Afterpay available)
What you'll do
Create your own easy-care desert scape cacti terrarium in our new advanced terrarium class. Learn how to create and maintain a terrarium reminiscent of the Australian outback or American cowboy country.Join Charlene from Botanista (South Australia's only dedicated terrarium store) in this two-hour workshop where balance and patience are key.This workshop includes all materials, including a wide-top, cylinder-style terrarium; coloured sands and gravels to create banding; soils and substrates; cacti and succulents; as well as wood/stone hardscapes and a little crystal bling.You will learn how to build your own desert scape from the ground up. Charlene will demonstrate how to create layers in your terrariums from sand and gravel while still ensuring plants have a good planting medium base because we want our terrariums to last. Very importantly, you will learn how to handle and place cacti without ending up with a handful of spikes! Lastly, you will discover how to achieve balance between hardscapes (rocks and wood) and your plants to create an inviting desert landscape, which will be the envy of any coffee table.Once your masterpiece is finished, choose a crystal to add that little something extra that makes your terrarium unique and beautiful.By the end of the class, you will leave with your own beautiful terrarium and the knowledge of how to recreate it.
What you'll get
- All materials are supplied for this workshop.
- Your own desert scape terrarium to take home, complete with crystals.
Knowledge required
Beginner-friendly.
Suitable for
This class is great for a team building activity, Christmas party, birthday or hens party.
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Recent reviews of Desert Scape Terrarium Workshop
- 5/5 from Cherisse Gardiner, attended Sep 2026: Loved our class today, it was so informative and fun :). Our teacher was lovely and so educated.
- 5/5 from Meredith Woolsey Move To Live, attended Nov 2024: We came to Botanista for our end of year staff party for the second year in a row and it didn't disappoint. Charlene was lovely and guided us through making our new spikey friends. We have even already voted on what terrarium workshop we will do next year!
- 5/5 from Fiona Broadbent, attended Feb 2024: I loved this workshop so much. It definitely takes time! 100% worth it. Charlene gave me alot of help as the cacti’s weren’t wanting to sit in place properly! We got there in the end. I recommend this class! You’ll love it
- 5/5 from Len Zitzke, attended Feb 2024: Amazing class always doing great classes at Botanista. Charlene is a amazing teacher! Highly Reccomend.
- 5/5 from Anthony Hallett, attended Feb 2024: Teacher Char was fantastic and really helpful. Had a great time learning new things! Everything was provided and we got to take a nice creation home to sit proudly in our house :)
- 5/5 from Tina Adams, attended Feb 2024: Excellent fun we have enjoyed every class we have taken here, highly recommended we will be back
- 5/5 from Wendy Chetcuti, attended Oct 2023: Lovely teacher very knowledgeable lots of different courses highly recommended lots of things you can buy
- 5/5 from Deborah Rodrigues, attended Oct 2023: Such a fun class! Had a great time learning about terrarium building, and getting to play with different ideas. Would 100% recommend. Botanista is so beautiful, the instructor/owner is so lovely and was super helpful as well. If I had spae for another terrarium, I would go again.
- 5/5 from Len Zitzke, attended Jul 2023: Amazing class I really enjoyed one of my favourite classes from Botanista. It is very creative and so many options to create your own Desert Terrarium ATTTT, Highly recommend every one to do this course!
- 5/5 from Michaela Aardenburg, attended Jul 2023: Had the most amazing time today, Char was so hospitable and guided us through the stages of our Desert Scape workshop with patience and support. Would highly recommend for both groups and singles
Your teacher
Botanista is a creative space in Port Noarlunga that melds workshops, South Australia's first Terrarium Bar and a beautiful shopfront filled with plants, terrariums and a dash of magic.Owner of Botanista, Charlene Maney, opened Botanista in 2018 with a passion for plants, making gardening fun and bringing the community together.Charlene has been an educator for over 30 years. Her experiences include teaching and overseeing the Indonesian language department in Canberra for the Department of Defence; and overseeing teaching staff as well as teaching several courses herself at the Worker's Education Association of South Australia.Previous to opening Botanista, Charlene had been running her award-winning online store, Fleurieu Gifts and teaching botanical workshops since 2014. Many of the workshops held at Botanista have been running continuously since the early days of Fleurieu Gifts in 2014.
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