Upcoming Workshops
Our floral workshops are held at The Bath Arms pub in Horningsham. After a demonstration, you’ll have the freedom to create your own arrangement from the best of our seasonal flowers, cut fresh that morning.
Each workshop will focus on different flowers during the season, and our wreath workshop will feature dried flowers that have been picked at their peak throughout the year and preserved for maximum impact during the holidays.
FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP
Focus On: Dahlias
Thursday 6th August • 7:00pm • £40
The Bath Arms, Horningsham
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Celebrate the start of dahlia season with this workshop, where you’ll learn how to tame the sometimes unwieldy dahlia for the vase. Beautiful, strong and in endless shapes and colours, the dahlia is a staple of the English garden from August until the first frost.
In this workshop, Jen will give you tips on choosing dahlias for cutting and how to prep and care for them for the best vase life. She’ll also demonstrate her tried and true foam-free methods for arranging dahlias with other seasonal flowers to create stunning floral displays for your home.
Whether you've never arranged flowers before or you're already a keen florist, this workshop is all about slowing down, getting creative, and having fun. Come on your own, bring a friend, or make some new ones while you create something beautiful to take home.
Everything is provided:
• Fresh, locally grown flowers
• Vase to take home
• Florist's snips
• Aprons
• Expert guidance throughoutJust turn up, enjoy a drink or snacks from the bar, maybe even order some delicious dinner from the restaurant, and leave with a stunning arrangement you've made yourself.
Spaces are limited, so pre-booking is essential.
To reserve your place, please click below:
FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP
Focus On: Late Summer Flowers
Tuesday 1st September • 7:00pm • £40
The Bath Arms, Horningsham
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Enjoy the best of the late summer flowers with this workshop, where you’ll learn how to combine them with herbs and unusual finds from the garden for a beautiful display.
In this workshop, Jen will give you tips on using the bounty of the late summer garden, including the veg patch, to create colourful, textural arrangements, plus the best times to harvest for vase life. She’ll also demonstrate her tried and true foam-free methods for working with these unexpected ingredients for maximum impact.
Whether you've never arranged flowers before or you're already a keen florist, this workshop is all about slowing down, getting creative, and having fun. Come on your own, bring a friend, or make some new ones while you create something beautiful to take home.
Everything is provided:
• Fresh, locally grown flowers, herbs and foliage
• Vase to take home
• Florist's snips
• Aprons
• Expert guidance throughout
Just turn up, enjoy a drink or snacks from the bar, and leave with a stunning arrangement you've made yourself. If you arrive hungry, there’s a lovely seating area next to the workspace where you can order from the full menu at The Bath Arms restaurant too!
Spaces are limited, so pre-booking is essential.
To reserve your place, please click below:
FLOWER ARRANGING WORKSHOP
Focus On: Fresh & Dried Flowers
Wednesday 30th September • 7:00pm • £40
The Bath Arms, Horningsham
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Create a stunning autumn display, using a mix of fresh and dried flowers. As the summer comes to an end, there are still plenty of beautiful flowers for arranging, plus many striking dried flowers, seed pods, and foliage.
In this workshop, Jen will give you tips on using a mixture of fresh & dried flowers to create structural, textural arrangements. She’ll also demonstrate her tried and true foam-free methods for working with dried and fresh flowers in combination for maximum impact.
Whether you've never arranged flowers before or you're already a keen florist, this workshop is all about slowing down, getting creative, and having fun. Come on your own, bring a friend, or make some new ones while you create something beautiful to take home.
Everything is provided:
• Fresh and dried, locally grown flowers
• Vase to take home
• Florist's snips
• Aprons
• Expert guidance throughout
Just turn up, enjoy a drink or snacks from the bar, and leave with a stunning arrangement you've made yourself. If you arrive hungry, there’s a lovely seating area next to the workspace where you can order from the full menu at The Bath Arms restaurant too!
Spaces are limited, so pre-booking is essential.
To reserve your place, please click below:
CHRISTMAS WREATH WORKSHOP
Focus On: Wreath Making
Thursday 26th November • 7:00pm • £50
The Bath Arms, Horningsham
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In this workshop, Jen will show you how to create the stunning holiday wreath of your dreams. You’ll have your choice of dried flowers (cut at their peak freshness during the season and preserved), herbs, foliage and ribbons.
Want to add battery-operated lights? A hundred tiny bells? Lace from your grandmother’s handkerchief? We love that! To make your wreath uniquely yours, let us know if you have any specific additional ideas beforehand, so we can advise on what you’ll need to bring. And we’ll prepared with how to integrate it into your wreath.
Whether you've never arranged flowers before or you're already a keen florist, this workshop is all about slowing down, getting creative, and having fun. Come on your own, bring a friend, or make some new ones while you create something beautiful to take home.
Everything is provided:
• Fresh and dried, locally grown flowers, herbs & foliage
• Selection of ribbons
• Wreath to take home
• Florist's snips
• Gloves
• Aprons
• Expert guidance throughout
Just turn up, enjoy a drink or snacks from the bar, and leave with a stunning arrangement you've made yourself.
If you arrive hungry, there’s a lovely seating area next to the workspace where you can order from the full menu at The Bath Arms restaurant too!
Spaces are limited, so pre-booking is essential.
To reserve your place, please click below:
What to Expect
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Everything you need for the arrangement will be supplied for you.
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Unfortunately, as we need to bring the right amount of the flowers, we’re unable to accept walk-ins.
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While we are not providing food or drinks for you as part of the cost, we are at the wonderful Bath Arms pub, with their full bar and restaurant menu available to you - there is a seating area right by the workspace, so you can even eat as you arrange!
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Bar Snacks
Bath Arms foccacia, butter, balsamic & oil
Sun-dried tomato hummus, crudites, feta, seeds
Crispy chicken skins, anchovie, tarragon, parmesan
Prawn crumpets, Bloody Mary sauce
Salt-baked celeriac scampi, spiced mayo
Crispy pork belly bites, pickled chilli, lime yoghurt
Starters
Courgette, pea & herb soup, creme fraiche, hazelnuts, focaccia
Brixham scallops, cauliflower, apple, radish
I.O.W tomato, Westcombe ricotta, Wye Valley rhubarb
Pressed ham hock, potato salad, watercress
New Forest asparagus, crispy egg, herb emulsion
Pub Food
Ploughman’s, Wiltshire ham, Westcombe cheddar, pickles, focaccia
Bath Arms burger, spiced mayo, chilli cheese, pickles, tomato chutney, chips
Cider battered haddock & chips, smashed peas, tartare sauce
Honey roasted ham, Fenton farm fried hens’ eggs, chips
Mains
Pearl barley risotto, purple sprouting broccoli, smoked almond, Old Winchester
10oz sirloin steak, roscoff onion, peppercorn sauce, wedge salad, buttermilk & herb crumb, chips
Crispy courgette flower, bulgarwheat, pickled fennel, flaked almond, orange
Pork tenderloin, chorizo, gem lettuce, creamed peas, silverskin onions
Chalk stream trout, artichoke puree, Cornish potatoes, spiced butter, crayfish, broad beans
Sides
Chips | Truffle chips | Chilli & garlic fried greens | Wedge salad, buttermilk & herb crumb
New potatoes & herb butter | Broccoli & almonds
Puddings
Lemon cheesecake, white chocolate ice cream, lemon curd
Salted caramel tart, poached apricot, ginger ice cream
Bath Arms Eton mess
Lemon & shortbread slice, raspberry sorbet
Cheese
Westcombe Cheddar, Somerset
Unpasteurised, hard cows milk cheese
Dorset Blue Vinny
Dorset hard, crumbly & piquant traditional blue cheese
Bruton Brie, Somerset
Soft & creamy, made from Jersey cow’s milk
All served with crackerbread, digestives, celery, grapes, pear chutney
‘Not quite full’
Sorbets - lemon, strawberry, mango, chocolate, raspberry
Ice creams - vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, coconut-chocolate chip, salted caramel
Petit fours - blood orange pastille, fudge, chocolate truffle
Beckford Affogato - Beckford rum, salted caramel ice cream, espresso, oat brittle
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Sparkling
Bodegas Pinord Catalonia, Spain
Lambrusco, Concerto, Reggiano, Medici Ermete Emilia Romagna, Italy
Crémant de Bourgogne Brut, André Delorme Burgundy, France
Coates & Seely, Brut Reserve Hampshire, England
Champagne Laurent Perrier, La Cuvée Brut Champagne, France
Champagne Laurent Perrier, Cuvée Rosé Brut Champagne, France
White
Blanc, Les Boules Vin de France, France
Arinto, Vinhas de Pegões, Santo Isidro de Pegões Setúbal, Portugal
Macabeo/Moscatel, El Renegado, Bodegas Nodus Valencia, Spain
Grenache Gris, Les Sardines, Domaine Lafage Roussillon, France
Verdeca, Talò, San Marzano Puglia, Italy
Merwah, Château Oumsiyat Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
Avesso, Vinho Verde, Leme Vinho Verde, Portugal
Sauvignon Blanc, Cape Point Vineyards Cape Town, South Africa
Vermentino di Sardegna, Sella & Mosca Sardinia, Italy
Verdicchio di Matelica, Agricola Tenuta Colpaola Marche, Italy
Rioja Blanco, Nivarius Rioja, Spain
Chardonnay, Novellum, Domaine Lafage Roussillon, France
Godello, Finca os Cobatos Galicia, Spain
Sauvignon Blanc, Awatere, Spoke Marlborough, New Zealand
Malagousia/Assyrtiko, Apla White, Oenops Macedonia, Greece
Gavi del Commune di Gavi, White Label, La Scolca Piedmont, Italy
Mâcon-Bussières, Le Vieux Puits, Thierry Drouin Burgundy, France
Albarino/Louriero, Pazo de Seoane, Lagar de Cervera Galicia, Spain
Viognier, The Age of Grace, Lismore Estate Vineyards Greyton, South Africa
Chablis, Domaine William Fèvre Burgundy, France
Rosé
Un Petit Syrah Grenache Rosé, Château de Campuget Languedoc, France
Cannonau, Anemone, Sella & Mosca Sardinia, Italy
Miraflors Rosé, Domaine Lafage Roussillon, France
Côtes de Provence Rosé, Azure, Mirabeau Provence, France
Red
Marselan, Chevanceau Languedoc, France
Braucol/Syrah, La Brêche, Les Vignobles Gayrel Sud Ouest, France
Bobal, El Renegado, Bodegas Nodus Valencia, Spain
Minervois, Caz Ailes, Domaine d’Agel Languedoc, France
Romans Bay, Lomond Wines Cape Agulhas, South Africa
Montepulciano Blend, Anima Osca, Tenimenti Grieco Molise, Italy
Shiraz, Watervale, Jim Barry Wines Clare Valley, Australia
Malbec, Terroir Unico, Zorzal Valle de Uco, Argentina
Pinot Noir, Charme de Loire, Jean-Marie Reverdy et Fils Loire, France
Côtes du Rhône, Domaine de la Solitude Rhône, France
Vale de Mata Red, Lisboa Lisboa, Portugal
Beaujolais Villages, Perle de Granit, Domaine de Colonat Beaujolais, France
Rioja Crianza, Finca San Martín, Torre de Oña Rioja, Spain
Cabernet Franc, Terroir Hunter, Undurraga Valle de Maipo, Chile
La Retro, Domaine Lafage Roussillon, France
Cabernet Sauvignon, Xanadu Margaret River, Australia
Chianti Superiore, Villa Saletta Tuscany, Italy
Ribera del Duero Reserva, Áster Castilla - Léon, Spain
Nebbiolo, Perbacco, Vietti Piedmont, Italy
Pinot Noir, La Crema California, USA
Château de Pez, Saint-Estèphe Bordeaux, France
Les Tourelles de Longueville, Pauillac Bordeaux, France
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The Loft - The Bath Arms at Longleat
Horningsham,
Warminster
BA12 7LYBy Road
Travelling West on the A303
Take the second exit at the roundabout and stay on the A36. Continue on the A36 until you reach another roundabout, here you will need to take the first exit towards Longleat. Continue along the A362 until you reach another roundabout, here you will need to take the first exit towards Horningsham. Continue uphill, until you reach a junction with a shed-like bus stop, then take a right onto Hollybush Road. Continue to follow the road past the church until you see a red telephone box, The Bath Arms is on your right.
Travelling East on the A303
Take the exit towards Frome onto the B3092. Continue for seven miles until you reach a right hand turn just before the stone cottage onto Forest Lane, The Bath Arms is sign posted here. Continue to follow Forest Road into Horningsham. Drive through the village until you see a small brown bench on your right, The Bath Arms will be just to your left.
By Rail
Frome Railway Station is fifteen minutes away by car. Trains from London take around two hours from Paddington.
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There is plenty of parking adjacent to the pub and around the village green.
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You can use the local taxi firm 2ME2YOU on 07398 533394 or bookings@2me2youtaxi.co.uk
