Dye Garden Socials – Event #007

Senescence with Martha Orbach
Sunday 1st December
11.00am – 3.00pm

Come celebrate the end of the growing season at the Sculpture House Dye Garden. Now begins the quiet time, rest, and senescence. Senescence in plants is an important part of the life cycle which includes ageing, dying, setting seed and recovering and recycling nutrients for the next season.

We’ll be looking at saving seeds from the dye garden and some general rules for saving your own seeds from your own gardens or growing spaces. Caring for the compost will be next on the days agenda as we work outside in the dye garden to look at what’s happening in our compost and use this as a way to discuss best practice in composting. We will also discuss and demonstrate how you can make you own leaf mold to improve your soil and finally we’ll plant some spring bulbs to remind us that after this dark time spring will come and new shoots will emerge.

The day will be a mixture of indoor and outdoor working, so please dress accordingly.

This event is free and open to all. We do ask anyone who would like to come who is under the age of 16 to be accompanied by an adult. Both will need to register for places on the website.

Martha Orbach

Martha Orbach is an artist and community gardener living in Glasgow. Her work centres around our relationship with our environment and ideas of home. Often collaborating, often outside – her work’s been seen at Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Streetlevel Photoworks, the Royal Scottish Academy, and Melbourne International Animation Festival. She’s one half of landscape-based printmaking collaboration Printwalks, and recently raided her childhood memories from long boring walks to create a collection of games for Cample-Line called Play Outside. Raised in rural Wales and initially a reluctant landworker, city living made it essential and she’s since worked as part of leading social and therapeutic horticulture projects. Seeds of Hope – the chapter she co-wrote with Mary Raphaely, was published by Routledge in The Power of Togetherness: Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of  Human Rights Abuses. She’s currently one of the gardeners at The Bowling Green Pollokshields and Artist in Residence for Natur am Byth, The Barbastelle Bat Project.  

Each Dye Garden Social event is free to attend and has been kindly supported by Creative Scotland.

Places are free but limited, so please follow the link below to book your spot.