Continuing Education

Explore how you can wow guests, family, and friends with striking holiday tablescapes—designed by you! 

Use an assortment of greens, berries, and branches to create a beautiful hardy arrangement. Sold out.

Fabricate your own handmade metal orchid ornaments using copper and follow templates derived from specimens in Longwood’s collection to create a life-like finished piece. Sold out.

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

Tap into your creative side this season to create your own handmade holiday cards—with an elegant and festive botanical theme. Registration closed.

Longwood at the Creamery. Use the colors of the season—red, white, and more—and the charming holiday elements of pinecones and candy canes to bring a playful and whimsical touch to your floral design. Sold out. Join the waitlist.

Using the hues of the holidays—reds, greens, whites, and more—create your own festive floral design.

Elective Course

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

Mix it up with some festive fun while learning how to create your own delicious holiday-inspired cocktails and drinks. Sold out.

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

Longwood at the Creamery. Create a beautiful poinsettia arrangement perfect for your centerpiece, sideboard, or mantel. 

Add some natural, green beauty to your home—with your very own, handmade portrait garden, reminiscent of a miniature green wall with living plants that burst out of a frame.

Join us in this hands-on workshop to celebrate the season with joyful floral design.

Create a sophisticated holiday floral arrangement, complete with branches and greens, in a tall cylinder vase that will dazzle your family and friends during holiday gatherings. Sold out. Join the waitlist.

Elective Course

Create your own mini “conservatory” to bring home, admire, and care for … and have fun doing so during this hands-on workshop! Sold out. Join the waitlist. 

Create a flourishing floral design in an urn vessel and bring home the beauty of the Mediterranean.

Elective Course

Create your own Mediterranean-inspired floral arrangement to bring home the beauty of the West Conservatory.

Elective Course

Design an arrangement that brings to mind the glitz and glamour of a disco dance party, all in celebration of the year to come.

Transform these often-simple bouquets into stunning floral designs.

Create an arrangement inspired by the theme of the 2025 Philadelphia Flower Show—to be announced by PHS soon.

Embark on a fun exploration of color theory in floral design inspired by the 2024 Pantone Color of the Year.

Elective Course

Explore all things palms … and even pot and take home one of your own.

Discuss the properties of color, the effect it can have on mood, and the color harmonies you can find while creating beautiful designs inspired by the 2025 Pantone Color of the Year.

Elective Course

Dive into the vibrant world of tropical flowers in this hands-on class designed for the advanced floral designer or hobbyist.

Create a floral arrangement that incorporates both winter branches and spring ephemerals into the same design to evoke this moment in time.

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

Get ready for the spring wedding season by learning to create a stunning crown adorned with springtime florals.

As we celebrate the opening of the new West Conservatory, spend an afternoon engaging in urban sketching, or sketching life “on location” rather than from reference material.