Autumn Sound Festival 2026
Come along and explore everything Tree Thyme has to offer with pop-up activities including floral crafts, art, qigong, singing mamas, garden games and face painting. Acoustic duoLorna Somerville and Darren Fisher of ‘Fly Yeti Fly’ will perform quirky indie-folk music, before teaching us a song we can all learn and perform together!
Please feel free to bring a picnic lunch along with you. We will have teas and a selection of homemade cakes included in the ticket price for you to enjoy throughout the day.
Ticket Prices: £30 for 1 Adult and 1 Child with add-on option for extra adults/children.
Or £60 Family Ticket (2 adults and up to 4 children).
Botanical Cyanotype Workshop
Join Laura of Parsloe Farm Flowers and step away from the stresses of life as you immerse yourself in shades of blue, while arranging pressed flowers in various compositions, to make your very own ‘blueprints’.
During this two hour workshop, you will be taken through the process of making a cyanotype print step-by-step with demonstration and examples. You will then be provided with multiple pieces of pre-coated cyanotype paper to experiment with and a selection of pressed flowers and grasses to make your unique blue and white designs.
Botanical printmaking workshops at Tree Thyme are designed to provide the participant with a quiet morning or afternoon of creativity and gentle tuition and hopefully the desire to continue to experiment and learn more in the future. Laura’s technique involves layering pressed flowers and leaves to create beautiful, textured cyanotype prints.
Refreshments including tea and homemade cake are included in the ticket price and there will be time to pause and have a wander in the garden.
Laura has a BTEC National Diploma in Art & Design and a degree in Printed Textiles. Having worked for over a decade as a Womenswear Print Designer in London and as Head of Print Design (Retail) for The National Trust within the not-for-profit sector, she turned to her love of nature and the great outdoors following the arrival of her two sons and began growing cut flowers from her home farm in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Laura now combines her skills by growing, drying, pressing, crafting and styling with the flowers she grows. She also teaches botanical printmaking and floral workshops with flowers grown in the grounds of the Tree Thyme Garden.
Final date in September for this workshop to be announced soon for 2026…
1:00pm-2:30pm
£45 pp
Tree Thyme Fun
Join us in the Tree Thyme garden for weekly Tree Thyme fun club and spend time connecting with your child immersed in nature. Working with the seasons and traditions throughout the calendar year, we will explore a creative activity each week, gather for story time and simply just relax and enjoy the wonders of the garden.
Thursdays and Fridays 10am - 12pm
If coming straight after school drop off please feel free to arrive from 9:30am and get settled in with a cup of tea!)
Qigong with Emily
Qigong is a practice that is embedded within Chinese medicine and Chinese culture. With regular Qigong practice you are helping to maintain an open flow of energy or “Qi” within your body. Think of this energy as your life force, it is what keeps you alive.
Qigong classes offer an enriching opportunity to cultivate harmony, wellbeing, and balance in your life and they are suitable for individuals of all fitness levels and age. Whether you're seeking to alleviate tension or enhance your holistic health, Qigong provides a nurturing space to achieve these goals and so much more beside.
Being outside within nature really lends itself to a calming, connecting and uplifting Qigong session. There simply is no better place to practice. Trees beside you, the sound of the birds all around and the grounding Earth beneath your feet really helps to remind you of your greater connection to it all. You naturally start to deeply connect to not only your own energy but also the energy of nature, the earth and the universe all around you.
Mondays 10-11am and 7:45-8:45pm
£15 per class or £40 for a 4 week block
To book contact Emily at:
or call: 07867755772
Please visit Emily’s website for more information on Qigong.
Singing Mamas
Join Kathryn of Singing Mamas North Wiltshire to connect with your inner voice. Sing fun and simple songs from around the world in a warm and welcoming group. Together we create community, with perinatal women at its centre, offering them nurture and connection with themselves, their baby and the group of women who come to sing. No musical experience is necessary and the songs are taught by ear.
Singing Mamas is not a choir, but it is group singing in beautiful, simple harmony. It is not a baby group but babies and children are welcome. It is about singing for wellbeing, no matter if you sing like an angel or croak like a frog! Singing Mamas is for all women, but at its heart are pregnant and postnatal women (please note that sessions are free from 36 weeks of pregnancy until delivery because the endorphins released by group singing can be so beneficial at the end of pregnancy and birth).
Having gathered in the poly-tunnel since January, Singing Mamas at Tree Thyme Garden will be moving into the garden itself now that we have arrived at warmer, drier mornings. The group sings for an hour and then shares tea and homemade cake together.
Trial sessions are available, as well as block bookings and pay as you go spaces. To book, please visit Kathryn’s Happity page or send her an email to singingmamas.nwilts@gmail.com. You can find out more about Singing Mamas at www.singingmamas.org.
Wednesday 9:30-11am
Pizza Play
Every other Friday come along with your family to the Tree Thyme garden after school to unwind, decompress, shake the week off and step into the weekend. Run free through the trees, explore and enjoy a slice of homemade pizza. Any age welcome, children must be accompanied by an adult.
Fridays 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Start date TBC…
Creative Printmaking
Join Laura in the Tree Thyme garden for creative printmaking workshops, exploring all that the space has to offer.
Time to wander and explore the garden, collecting the elements you would like to use. We will create botanical prints using various techniques including cyanotype nature prints, monoprints and ‘tatami-some’ (flower pounding) onto both paper and fabric. You will leave having learnt a new skill and take home a unique piece of art to frame in your home or gift to a loved one.
This is an adult workshop. Scroll to top of page to view Cyanotype workshops in June 2026 and click on the ‘Book’ tab top right of page to book a place.
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Our desire is to share the beauty of the Tree Thyme garden to bring people and nature together, celebrating the wonder of the seasons and traditions celebrated throughout the year.