Classes & Workshops

Longwood at the Creamery. Listen to advice and top tips for growing your own tomatoes. 

Gather your friends and flex your creative muscle during our fun, hands-on workshops set in the inspiring setting of our Garden Shop. 

Join internationally renowned floral designer Tim Farrell for a hands-on workshop to generate a sense of rhythm in arrangements that sing. Sold out.

Capture unique views we can’t see with just our eyes—with a morning of macro photography in the Gardens.

Learn more about the Japanese art and traditional practice of potting plants in a ball of moss and bring a dose of green to your indoor space during our hands-on workshop set in the refreshing and horticulturally inspired Garden Shop. 

Enjoy exclusive early-morning Gardens access—and your very own view of 1,000 white flamingos wading in the Chimes Tower basin, courtesy of Light: Installations by Bruce Munro—during this plein air watercolor experience.

Take the mystery out of identifying invasives in this class featuring an online orientation followed by onsite identification.

Fully online. Learn about design processes, traditional landscape graphics, and sustainable landscapes.

Spend a morning admiring—and sketching—the verdant view of Longwood’s iconic Flower Garden Walk from the Peirce-du Pont House Porch.

Longwood at the Creamery. Explore the history of peppers and taste different varieties.

Join Longwood Floral designer Shannon Toal as she digs into the elements of Italian garden design. 

Take a tour of picturesque regional meadows from the perspective of the design team that helped bring them to life.

Explore the chemical, biological, physical, and cultural techniques used in Integrated Vegetation Management, and how Longwood uses those techniques to manage specific plants and steward our native ecosystems.

Dive into the practice of sustainable floral design and celebrate the September equinox while creating two earth-friendly designs for your home.

Explore the many perennials whose eye-catching flowers, attractive foliage, or interesting seed heads will extend your garden’s season as the days shorten and the temperatures cool.

Put a sunny spin on your patio, porch, or deck while creating a sun-loving fall container alongside Longwood East Conservatory Manager Karl Gercens.

Put a sunny spin on your patio, porch, or deck while creating a sun-loving fall container alongside Longwood East Conservatory Manager Karl Gercens.

Explore the concept of sustainable floral design while incorporating earth-friendly practices in two autumnal designs that beautifully showcase branches, grasses, and larger flower heads.

Get a taste for aperitifs and digestifs with this fun online class.

7 sessions, fully online. Create beautiful planting designs with balance, repetition, and cohesiveness. Sold out.

Transform your favorite fall gourds into a gorgeous succulent display for the ultimate front porch accessory. 

4 sessions. Learn how to define spaces that are truly supportive of people and plants.

Fully online. Learn the skills you need to spark your floral design creativity. Includes online interactive sessions.

Fully online. Explore a collection of popular plants that will add a burst of color and texture to your garden.

Fully online. Learn how to identify, care for, and incorporate these plants into your home.

Fully online. Explore the world of woody plants, including flowering trees, shrubs, and conifers.

Fully online. Learn how to identify popular (and tasty) vegetables, herbs, fruits, and easy-to-grow nut trees.

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

Take a trip through time with internationally trained and published designer and instructor Cres Motzi, AIFD, trace the roots of floral design, and see how it has evolved over the centuries.

Join internationally trained and published designer and instructor Cres Motzi for a step-by-step demo and hands-on session and learn how to add depth, texture, and movement to this typically symmetrical and formal design.

Ride the waves of progress and navigate the latest cutting-edge floral design techniques with internationally trained and published designer and instructor Cres Motzi, AIFD.