The Aromatic Garden Workshop with Christiana Jackson & Natasha Morgan

Enjoy a day of sumptuous experiences in a gorgeous space with lovely people. Natasha and Christiana will share discussions on how to bring plants and their incredible aromatics into your everyday life in the simplest yet most precious ways. Delve into making handmade bath and body products not just for your own personal enjoyment, but also as wonderful botanical gifts for the festive season.

About the Workshop:

Join Christiana Jackson, founder of Mimosa Botanicals, and Natasha Morgan for a unique hands-on workshop in the idyllic setting of Little Cottage On A Hill, Daylesford. Dive deep into the world of botanical beauty as Christiana shares her expertise in creating natural, aromatic bath and body products.

Christiana’s journey began in the Australian Bush, where she developed a profound connection to the natural scents of her environment. This passion led her around the world and, most recently, to the Grasse Institute of Perfumery in Provence, France. Now, she brings her love of perfumed flora and handcrafted botanical creations to you.

Come for a day of winter self-care, learning to make aromatic baths and body goodies. Delve into the aromatic benefits of botanicals by creating your own hand-blended products.

What You’ll Learn and Create:

• 50ml Bath/Body Oil: Infused with dried botanicals from the garden and essential oils (optional).

• Oat Milk Bath Bag: Featuring botanicals and powdered spices from the larder.

• 10ml Uplifting Aromatherapy Roller: A perfect blend for enhancing mood and wellness.

Participants will receive beautiful dried botanicals and spices to use on the day, as well as and recipes to follow and take home, ensuring you can continue creating aromatic delights long after the workshop. Be welcomed in Natasha’s idyllic garden world to pick from and enjoy during a guided tour. Of course there will also be pots of hand-blended tea and freshly baked morning tea, beautiful company and conversation!

What to Bring:

• Apron

Tickets are extremely limited, so grab some friends, your camera or phone to take pics, and come to Daylesford for the day—just do it quickly! You don’t want to miss out.

About Christiana:

Mimosa Botanicals was founded by aromatherapist, natural perfumer & nature lover Christiana Jackson in 2016.

Growing up in the Australian Bush, from a young age Christiana was very aware of the smells around her - the damp earth and wet leaves in winter, the dry hay like honey smell in the height of summer when the earth is scorching, camp fires in autumn, the heightened smell of an electrical storm - all these things filled her with joy and a sense of wonder in her small world. 

As an adult in her early 20's, that exploration continued as she moved away from the bush & explored scent & botany all over the world.

Most recently, Christiana has followed a long held dream & has commenced her studies with the Grasse Institute of Perfumery, travelling to Provence, France in July 2023.

Visiting the lavender fields in full bloom & exploring the plants of the provincial climate, which is very much like the climate of Central Victoria - Christiana's love of perfumed flora has been taken to another level - one to which she will continue to share with you through her botanical creations.

"If I could spend all day foraging in nature, I would."

About Natasha:

Natasha does many things including running a small artisan preserve business that stocks her seasonal syrups in over 30 stores, accommodation and gift box offerings, and bars across Victoria and Australia. Natasha Morgan is also an award winning landscape architect by profession and a multi-disciplinary creative collaborator by natural inclination. 

For a decade Natasha worked on some of Australia's most significant landscape architecture and urban design projects - notably several years spent managing the design and construction of The Australian Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne. Concurrently she shared her craft as a sessional lecturer in Masters of Landscape Architecture at RMIT and Melbourne Universities. 

In 2014 she made a tree change with a purpose to Spargo Creek, a tiny hamlet just outside of Daylesford in the Central Victorian Highlands.

Here Natasha transformed a dream into reality, creating Oak and Monkey Puzzle, the internationally renowned design, event and horticultural production focussed property and its idyllic gardens. 

Oak and Monkey Puzzle not only provided an evolving special hub for, garden design, artisans and craftspeople by way of workshops, collaborations, and bespoke events. It engendered a warm sense of community, sparked dynamic conversations, fostered collaborative connections, cultivated creativity and provided a place for meeting of the minds. 

It is here, also, that Natasha began her journey creating a way of life she had long yearned for. Rooted in her flower, berry and kitchen gardens, orchards and forest surrounds, she learnt to live with the land, the shifting season’s, and how to live ‘well’. 

Earlier this year, Natasha and her family moved on from the idyllic property. In this next chapter, Natasha has set herself the challenge of taking the best of the lessons learnt at Oak & Monkey Puzzle’s 5 acres, combined with her love for gardens, growing, harvesting, cooking and preserving, and distilling this in the design of beautifully productive and sustainably focussed gardens at her new 515 square metre Daylesford property, Little Cottage on a Hill.

Natasha is a sought after public speaker, workshop teacher and facilitator, and creative collaboration partner.  Natasha shares her inspiring story of tree change, garden design, and country life, through guest speaker events, writing, her workshops, social media following, print and digital media.  She has been widely featured both locally and internationally, including Australian Woman’s Weekly, Country Style magazine, Better Homes & Gardens (Channel 7),  and recently The Block (Channel 9).