Visit The Garden
We are delighted to be welcoming visitors to the Weleda biodynamic gardens in Ilkeston for guided tours and a sneak peek behind the scenes. These tours are educational sessions with our experts that are designed to give attendees an introduction to biodynamic gardening.
For just £15, enjoy an hour and a half tour with Weleda's Head Gardener, Emma Harpham. Click the links below to book your space. Plus, we're running two Goethean Plant Study Days too - see full details below.
2026 Goethean Plant Study Days
Spend a day in the beautiful Weleda gardens getting to know one of our medicinal plants in depth.
There’s now a greater understanding of the importance and benefit for people to re-connect to nature. Goethean plant study can help us to develop a closer relationship to whatever it is in nature that we’re studying. Working as a group can also validate our individual experiences and show us that we are often more observant and perceptive than we give ourselves credit for.
Following the ideas of Goethe, we will look at the plant in the living sequence of it's movement and transformation from a seed through rooting, leafing and flowering to when it bears seeds itself.
Unlike the conventional scientific approach, Goethean science includes (and validates) our human intuitive and emotional responses to whatever it is we’re studying.
Scientific rigour is still an important part of the process, but as the ‘instruments of perception’ we as humans can learn so much more about a plant than just relying on lab tests and chemical analyses. We will participate in detailed observation, sketching and 'sensing', and then use our memory to 're-grow' the plant in our imagination.
In this way, together, we will try to relate to the plant's being and gesture (what the plant is telling us) and finally explore how that may relate to the human being.
We will discover lots of aspects we didn't know before and forge new connections to the plant world!
