Autumn Equinox Gathering with Amanda Randell Cox

The Autumn Equinox is that beautiful moment when day and night are held in perfect balance before the landscape begins its gentle transition into winter. Rather than celebrating abundance, it celebrates noticing, seed heads instead of flowers, texture instead of colour, habitats instead of displays.

To celebrate this Autumn Equinox we invite you to join Amanda Randell Cox, a local artist specialising in landscape-led botanical design, at Heal Somerset for a morning of exploration, creation and delicious food. We will start the day with tea, coffee, fruit and pastries followed by a guided walk around our beautiful rewilding site. We will then return to the community nature cabin for a creative botanical session inspired by everything we’ve just seen together during the morning walk.

Working together in small groups, guests will create a relaxed autumn table meadow using seasonal grasses and seed heads gathered in advance, before making their own delicate wire insect to take home.

Finally, we will enjoy a seasonal vegetarian brunch surrounded by the botanical table meadows created together, with time to reflect on the changing season and everything discovered during the morning.

Timings

7.30am Meet at the Community Nature Cabin for tea, coffee, fruit and pastries

7.45am Welcome and introduction to the Autumn Equinox, followed by a guided walk through Heal’s beautiful rewilding landscape

9.00am Return to the Community Nature Cabin for a creative botanical session

10.15am Seasonal vegetarian brunch

11.00am Event ends

About your guide, Amanda Randell Cox

Amanda Randell Cox is a botanical artist, creative project manager and RHS Chelsea Gold medallist whose work explores the relationship between people, plants and place.

After more than twenty years creating floral installations, teaching professional floristry and working closely with historic gardens and landscapes, her practice has evolved towards landscape-led botanical design, inspired by the textures, seed heads and quiet beauty of rewilding landscapes as the seasons change.

Amanda’s work is rooted in the belief that creativity begins with noticing, slowing down to observe the rhythms of the landscape, understanding how habitats support wildlife, and discovering beauty in the often-overlooked details of nature.

She is delighted to be sharing this special Autumn Equinox Gathering at Heal Somerset, inviting guests to slow down, observe and create together in celebration of the changing season, and an invitation to keep noticing long after the morning ends.