Celebrate the season by crafting a beautiful evergreen swag to welcome guests and bring natural holiday charm to your home.
In this hands-on workshop, you'll work with a variety of fresh evergreens, seasonal accents, and decorative elements to create a customized design perfect for hanging on a door, wall, or mantel. Along the way, you'll learn basic techniques for arranging and securing greenery, balancing texture and color, and caring for fresh botanical decorations. Leave with a festive handcrafted swag and the inspiration to incorporate natural materials into your holiday decorating.
Holiday Village Workshops are part of Longwood @ The Creamery, engaging horticultural experiences offered throughout the year in a spirited community space. These workshops are offered during the Kennett Square Holiday Village Market, and each one includes a seasonal cocktail and admission to Longwood Gardens on the date of the workshop.
Location
The Creamery of Kennett Square
Instructor
Melissa Palmer
Melissa Palmer trained under Gregor Lerch in Germany and attended the Boerma Institute in the Netherlands, studying Dutch Master Design. Palmer teaches floral classes as an instructor at Delaware Valley University and she is the educational director of Bucks Beautiful, a non-profit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She travels around the area filming interesting topics dealing with nature and horticulture and writes articles on gardening and floral design.
Palmer is a Master Gardener, master beekeeper, and a mason bee specialist; as a proponent for beneficial insects, she lectures on the topic. Palmer owns her own businesses, Florum Flowers and Petaling Posies, where she grows and designs cut flowers on her New Jersey farm.
