Welcome to the Virtual Greenhouse by IKEA. A platform where we share specially crafted workshops from creative experts in sustainability, design, food, and floristry – all from their most personal spaces. +

Growing Flowers to Nourish Bees, with Honey Fingers

Growing Flowers to Nourish Bees, with Honey Fingers | Are you wondering how you can bring more wildlife into your garden or balcony? In this video, you can learn more about which plants are the best food sources for bees and other pollinators. This insightful workshop by Honey Fingers discusses how growing a variety of native plants, from rosemary and sunflowers to tomatoes and raspberries, you can re-wild your outdoor space and give something back to the local environment.

 

 

Indoor Plant Care Tips, with Emma Sadie Thomson

Indoor Plant Care Tips, with Emma Sadie Thomson | Houseplants are important for our wellbeing and creating a daily routine around plant care can help us better understand what they need. In this workshop, plant stylist Emma talks us through some of her tips and tricks for how to care for your houseplants. From checking the water levels, identifying and treating pest problems, to repotting root bound plants. With these tips, you will have the tools you need to help your house plants thrive.

How to Create a Garden of Microgreens, with NAS-DRA

How to Create a Garden of Microgreens, with NAS-DRA | Microgreens are up to nine times more nutritious than full sized vegetables and can be harvested almost every week. In this step-by-step guide, Paulina talks about urban farming and demonstrates how to build your own farm in a small indoor space. From simple microgreens grown in a cutlery tray, to a complete aeroponic farm using an IKEA box and a mist diffuser. You only need a few key materials, some seeds and a sunny window space to grow your own microgreens at home.

 

How to Dye Textiles using Food Waste, with Circular Union

How to Dye Textiles using Food Waste, with Circular Union | Learn how to dye your old textiles using natural sustainable dyes made from food waste at home. Give a new lease of life to your old, stained textiles and put your food waste to good use. This process is completely natural, harnessing the strong dying agent that is found in common foods. Mariah demonstrates two simple dye recipes that give a wide range of colours from dusty pink to mustard yellow. The only ingredients you need are avocado skin and pits, onion peel and water.

 

 

Purify Drinking Water using Natural Ingredients, with Arabeschi di Latte

Purify Drinking Water using Natural Ingredients, with Arabeschi di Latte | Instead of buying filters to reduce the heavy metals and chemicals in your tap water, take some time to purify your water using these slow processes and natural ingredients at home. Food designer Francesca shows a range of ingredients that can be used to naturally purify your drinking water. These unusual methods using moringa seeds, charcoal, pine and more are a great way to amplify the depth of flavour in your everyday water.

 

 

Designing a Mini Home Terrarium, with Alyson Mowat Studio

Designing a Mini Home Terrarium, with Alyson Mowat Studio  | Learn how to design, plant and care for your very own ‘garden in a jar’. In this workshop, Alyson explains the elements you need to create the perfect environment for a miniature ecosystem to thrive. With a wide selection of terrarium plants like the ginseng ficus, asparagus fern, jewel orchid, and variants of moss, you can create a variety of different terrariums for your home.

 

How to Create a Living Library of Plant Seeds with Material Library of India

How to Create a Living Library of Plant Seeds with Material Library of India | Find out how to preserve seven different types of seeds that can last up to three years. In this workshop Shubhi, the founder of Material Library of India, demonstrates techniques to safely extract and store seeds from everyday plants like blueberries, pomegranate, silk cotton, loofah, henna, basil and corn. Seed preservation is an essential way to save the remaining biodiversity in our food groups and ensure food security in the near future. Follow these simple steps to create your own seed library at home to be able to grow your own food in the years to come.

 

Making Natural Dye Using Algae, with Studio Blond & Bieber

Making Natural Dye Using Algae, with Studio Blond & Bieber | A creative workshop from Essi and Rasa demonstrating how you can repurpose old furniture using a natural, non-toxic dye made from microalgae. This workshop gives a step-by-step guide of the whole process, from growing microalgae and turning the pigment into a printing paste to screen-printing and upholstering techniques. With this natural process, you can bring your personality into your home and give your old furniture a new look.

 

The Art of Cooking Mindfully with Baguette & Butter

The Art of Cooking Mindfully with Baguette & Butter | Learn how to treat your food more intentionally as food activist Amanda shares her top tips for creating less food waste. By growing, composting and pickling, we can all save money and live more sustainably at home. Through these simple techniques, Amanda shares her favourite salad recipe that uses all parts of a cauliflower together with pickled grapes and homemade ricotta.

 

DIY Clay Root Chutes and Top Tips for Propagation with Ro Co

DIY Clay Root Chutes and Top Tips for Propagation with Ro Co | A creative way to build your plant collection and encourage new plant growth with these DIY ‘root chutes’. Rose and Caro created these clay holders to help with their plant propagation project to keep their seeds dry and encourage new roots to grow into the water. They are a great alternative to using plastic holders and can be easily shaped into whatever design you like so you can get creative and add more character to your propagation collection at home.

 

 

Foraging for Edible Plants and Making Natural Drink Recipes, with Bompas & Parr

Foraging for Edible Plants and Making Natural Drink Recipes, with Bompas & Parr | Discover what local, edible plants you can forage and turn them into delicious drinks in a few simple steps. In this workshop, Bompas & Parr chef Danny takes us on a walk through his local wetlands, teaching how to pick nettles, seasonal berries and wildflowers. Follow these simple recipes to make fruit cordials, naturally infused tea and tasty mocktails – all from locally foraged ingredients.

 

 

Flower Therapy for The Home, with Buunch

Flower Therapy for The Home, with Buunch | There is more to a flower arrangement than just the aesthetics. In this workshop Caroline and Takaya design different arrangements that can have a therapeutic effect on your mental wellbeing at home. Using a variety of scents and colours, Caroline designs the perfect arrangement for your bedroom with fragrant garden roses, tuberose, lavender, sage and geranium. Takaya designs a bright design for the kitchen with fresh edible flowers using bell peppers as a vase.

 

How to Make a Kokedama with We Smell the Rain

How to Make a Kokedama with We Smell the Rain  | Looking for a creative way to bring plants into your home? In this workshop, Kim demonstrates how to make a Kokedama ball – by combining soil, moss and thread to create a self-contained plant vessel. This meditative craft is a traditional Japanese art form that is now being used to create modern living sculptures. In this simple step-by-step guide, you can easily create a Kokedama ball at home and get great tips like which soil to use, how to water your Kokedama ball and ways to display it into your home.