A group of people gardening on the plaza at V&A Dundee. They are planting and tending to green plants on a sunny day.

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Summer Solstice with Grow Dundee

Saturday 21 June

Join us on the plaza for an afternoon of free garden activities

This June, Grow Dundee – a city–wide network of connected community growing spaces – take over our plaza with a display of mini gardens, free workshops, music and games!

Saturday 21 June 2025

13.00 – 16.00

V&A Dundee Plaza

Free

Garden Mocktails

There are hundreds of plants – cultivated, wild and weeds – that you can use for your garden mocktails, grown by yourself or foraged from nature. Taste some new flavours, from sweet to citrusy, spicy to cooling – nature on your tastebuds!

Green Jewellery

Beauty and interesting forms and shapes can be found in each leaf, flower and tree in our gardens and parks. We have been using plants for thousands of years to adorn ourselves. Make your own piece of jewellery or crown with sustainably foraged greenery and flowers from Dundee’s urban natural spaces.

Garden Collection

A display of 30+ mini gardens, designed and planted by users and volunteers across the Grow Dundee network.

Plant Friends

Did you know plants don’t all like each other? Companion planting can be used for one species to protect, feed the soil, enhance the flavour or repel pests from another. Discover which plants go well with others and sow your own little happy companion pot with 2 or 3 different plant seeds or seedlings.

A person wearing gloves plants shrubs in a garden bed, with a large rock and potted plant nearby.
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