Continuing Education

Longwood at the Creamery. Take a deliciously fun look at foraging and digging roots that can be used as tasty root vegetables—or process and dry them for coffee, tea, and more.

Take inspiration from this fruit-filled dessert to create your own equally delightful floral design. Registration closed.

Explore the fascinating world of bonsai, the centuries-old Asian art of dwarfing trees and shrubs grown in pots or small spaces. Sold out. Join the waitlist.

Join expert floral designer Nancy Gingrich Shenk on a fun exploration of monochromatic color palettes in floral design. Sold out—join the waitlist.

Elective Course.

Fully online. Whether you’re a home gardener or professional, determining the proper amount of mulch, soil amendment, seed, plant material, and more for a project can be a daunting task and a budget-buster if you miscalculate. Sold out—join the waitlist.

Elective Course.

Fully online. Create an abundant landscape from late summer through winter with late-season blooms, intriguing textures, and benefits for native pollinators.

A unique and creative technique, double exposure combines two striking images overlaid on top of each other to create a single, combined image that lets you see your subjects in a new way.

Learn how to define spaces that are truly supportive of people and plants through discussion, slides, and online group exercises. Sold out.

Core Course

Enhance your skills and portfolio in the natural beauty of Longwood’s famous orchid collection.

Enjoy a fun evening of floral design and an exploration of the transformative power of design with Black Girl Florists President & CEO Valerie Crisostomo and expert designers Erica Jones and Tasha Flowers.

Core Course

Fully online. Create beautiful planting designs with balance, repetition, and cohesiveness. Sold out—join the waitlist.

Core Course

Expert event designers Tasha Flowers and Erica Jones lead you as you work both independently and with your peers to create a striking canopy arrangement of flowers.

Elective Course

Learn how to create a stunning and dynamic centerpiece with an asymmetric twist alongside acclaimed event designers Tasha Flowers and Erica Jones.

Elective Course

Fully online. This course provides the foundational skills and the hands-on practice you need to spark your floral design creativity.

Core Course

Join us in The Garden Shop (in the Visitor Center outside the Gardens) to arrange your favorite fall gourds into gorgeous succulent, foliage, and flower centerpieces for an autumn-inspired tablescape. Gardens admission not included. Sold out.

Find inspiration and enhance your portfolio while you capture the hues of autumn in our 86-acre Meadow Garden.

Capture the fleeting beauty of a flower in bloom by setting it forever in stone—or, in this case, plaster.

Create distinctive, elegant designs that exude a sense of harmony, tranquility, and well-being while learning the history of Ikebana and its different schools of study.

This space-saving technique makes it possible for the home gardener to cultivate their own trees at home.

Longwood at the Creamery. Learn the basics of indoor gardening and how to make your home a better environment for houseplants.

Join recognized experts for a day long conference with an educational focus.

Learn about orchid potting requirements and how to find success growing orchids at home.

Fully online. Join us to create your very own mossariums—terrariums filled with mosses! 

Capture the striking contrasts, unique shapes, and crisp lines of the season by photographing a variety of fall foliage at Longwood. 

Celebrate the vibrant colors and dazzling variety of fall’s favorite flower—the chrysanthemum.

Explore a selection of horticulturally significant plants that give a landscape life through the fall and into winter.

Under the expert guidance of Cres Motzi AIFD, explore an updated version of the classic Victorian art of pot-et-fleur.

Elective Course

Fall is traditionally viewed as the end of the growing season and a time for garden cleanup, but it’s not too late for some incredible planting.

Take the steps necessary to get your garden ready for seasonal slumber.

Explore techniques for creating regenerative, low-maintenance landscapes that enhance the local ecology. Sold out. Join the waitlist.

Elective Course

Discover how Longwood Reimagined celebrates the legacy of our horticultural collections while elevating them for the future.

Join moth expert and co-founder of National Moth Week Elena Tartaglia, Ph.D. and dive deep into the marvelous world of moths.

Longwood at the Creamery. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the magic of A Longwood Christmas outdoor display and explores the year-long process that goes into making this one-of-a-kind display possible.

Experience exclusive, after-hours access to the Gardens and the Conservatory during the opening weekend of A Longwood Christmas. Sold out—join the waitlist.

Deck out your home with branch armatures, beautifully constructed pieces that can hold fall foliage and flowers for Thanksgiving, then move gracefully into the winter holiday season.

Use a vibrant combination of seasonal plants and flowers to create a design that bursts with fall color and dramatic texture.

Capture the magic of A Longwood Christmas with your camera as you’ve never been able to before. 

Fully online. Focus on contrast, proportion, scale, and more while building your floral design skillset in this non-credit course.

Fully online. Learn the skills you need to create beautiful floral arrangements in this non-credit course.

Fully online. Expand and refine your floral design skills in this non-credit course.

Create a floral design that evokes the transition from fall to winter—with magnolia foliage as the foundation.

Longwood at the Creamery. Use an assortment of greens, berries, and branches to create a beautiful hardy arrangement. 

Longwood at the Creamery. Create a holiday floral design inspired by a classic shape of the season: stars.

Fully online. Join us online and learn more about winter’s favorite tree—and how to keep it happy in your home for the entire holiday season.

Revel in exclusive after-hours access to A Longwood Christmas in our Conservatory—and capture this festive indoor display at your leisure.

Longwood at the Creamery. During this fun and festive class, create your own beautiful wreath to bring warmth to your home.

Celebrate the festive colors and showstopping shape of the quintessential flower of the holiday season—the poinsettia.

Add flash photography to your repertoire of skills and get early, exclusive access to the Conservatory.

Learn how to start your own botanical sketchbook and sharpen your observation skills.