Continuing Education

Suitable for beginner to intermediate macro photographers, as well as experienced photographers looking for a chance to create images in an exclusive environment. Sold out.

Explore water management approaches from permeable hardscape options to rain gardens, seepage beds, and more.

Find a new use for those willow and dogwood branches that you cut back or used for winter decorations. Join the waitlist.

Fully online. Learn about components of traditional and interpretive Asian gardens and adapt those components in innovative ways. Optional in-person Elements of Design Tour available.

Learn the fundamentals of creating a 12 x 12-inch birch-framed preserved hanging moss wall perfect to display at home.

Join this introductory level class from longtime instructor Cres Motzi, AIFD, to learn about conditioning and designing with these fabulous blooms.

In this advanced class, join Cres Motzi, AIFD, as she teaches the specific strategies, skills, and techniques needed to work with delicate yet hardy hellebores.

Explore the growing and classification of daffodils, and how to use these incredible flowers in your own designs.

Learn the steps Longwood horticulturists take to ensure our beds look their best each spring.

Fully online. Join author and chef Bryant Terry for a fun cooking demonstration and discussion of the inspiration behind and themes of his book Black Food.

Join us in The Garden Shop for a hands-on workshop and create your very own mossarium—a terrarium filled with mosses!

Explore the interaction between landscapes and pollinators, and view your garden as a foodbank for insects.

Longwood at the Creamery. Explore plant ID, safety, look-alike plants, sustainable harvesting, nutrition and cooking with wild plants, as well as a wild food tasting.

Fully online. Join Black Food author and chef Bryant Terry and two contributors to Black Food in a lively online discussion about the book.

Learn to identify our most common native wildflowers, utilize these plants in your own landscape, and discover the relationships between spring pollinators and seed dispersal.

Fully online. Delve more deeply into design creativity, detailed garden features, and more advanced graphics.

Join florist Aliyah Ali as she leads you in creating a bountiful and fresh floral design inspired by fruit tarts.

Fully online. Learn to design and create a landscape well-suited to handle excess rain.

Fully online. An exciting and informative look into the world of sustainable design.

Enjoy a tour of Longwood’s Abbondi property during the height of spring bird migration. Sold out. 

Interested in building your own trail through any sized landscape? This opportunity will lead you down the garden path of trail building.

Instructor and InDi Studio owner Dyan Krajnikovich leads you through working with clay, choosing plant material, and creating your own cheese plate design.

Join The Garden Shop team in creating two kokedama using a variety of plant choices in which the moss ball serves as the focal point, true to this century-old form of Japanese garden art.

Join us for an engaging conversation about culturally significant foods of the African Diaspora, inspired by our 2023 Community Read featured title, Black Food.

During the class, you’ll work with your own garden photos as we explore how to use catalogs and galleries, and experiment with Lightroom's powerful masking and retouching tools.

Whether you choose to paint these stunning vistas or focus on a native bloom, you’ll spend a wonderful morning in the Gardens.

Longwood at the Creamery. Discover what makes a species native versus non-native versus invasive, and how native species improve so many things about our yards and gardens.

Learn basic mixing, molding, and finishing techniques to make a lightweight, porous, weatherproof container from hypertufa.

Join orchid expert and longtime educator Barbara Schmidt in this special look at all things native orchids.

Join floral designer and instructor Melissa Palmer as she leads you in creating your own beautiful floral arrangement inspired by the iconic colors of this elaborate confection.

Join us in The Garden Shop for this whimsical hands-on workshop and create a naturalistic, vegetative floral fairy design woven with a thread of imagination.

Join botanical artist Diana Heitzman in this three-part intermediate to advanced course focused on painting native plants and their pollinators.

Let foliage take center stage while creating a striking—flower-free—focal point for your décor.

Learn the basics of how to calculate the correct amount of fertilizer, or how many annuals your flower beds can support and much more.

Explore the magic of precious metal clay and create botanically inspired fine silver jewelry in this two-part course with artist Hattie Weselyk.

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

Join Longwood Outdoor Landscape Manager Roger Davis to explore the history and the future of the Theatre Garden.

Join The Garden Shop team in creating your own miniature, lush landscape using ferns, groundcovers, moss, driftwood, branches, and stones.

Learn the ins and outs of themed garden design in this four-part class, including shade, sun, gravel, rock, herb, color, and more.

Connect with the Gardens and with your creative self while developing new tools for your writing toolkit and playing with words on the page.

Have fun planting exotic tropical treasures in a container of diverse and contrasting textures.

Join floral designer and instructor Roseann Christian as she leads you in creating your own vibrant floral arrangement inspired by this summertime favorite sweet treat.

Spend an exclusive morning in the Gardens capturing the striking architectural beauty found throughout the Gardens.