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.

Enjoy early-morning Gardens access during a three-hour, in-person painting experience inside the West, East, and Main Conservatories with your choice of medium, easel, and tools.

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

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. 

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. 

This holiday season, capture the magic of our Conservatories during A Longwood Christmas, with its dazzling display, thousands of lights, marvelous feats of horticulture, and more.

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.

Gain a new perspective of A Longwood Christmas by capturing its beauty through an entirely different lens: in black and white.

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

Discover the joy of indoor gardening with this hands-on workshop all about microgreens!

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

Spend a quiet morning capturing the striking architectural features of the new West Conservatory—from its asymmetrical peaks to its fountains, canals, and islands of Mediterranean-inspired gardens.

Learn how to apply dramatic lighting to an orchid from Longwood’s collection while shooting in a low-light environment.

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

Whether you’re a beginner artist or looking to add to your portfolio, sharpen your observation skills during this insightful class.

Fully online. Define your landscape design business idea and develop a workable framework to reach towards success. 

Elective course.

Fully online. Learn about the classic Victorian art of pot-et-fleur—a creative floral design technique that combines living plants with cut flowers.

Grow your photography practice at Longwood with this course designed for beginner and intermediate photographers.

Transform these often-simple bouquets into stunning floral designs.

Bring your own, already-established botanical sketchbook and add to your art using new techniques, interesting drawing materials, and unique approaches—all while being led by a professional artist.

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

Fully online. Join this beginner-friendly webinar and learn about different types of orchids, their unique growing needs, and how they differ from other houseplants.

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

Gather all you need to know about hardy bulbs with this comprehensive horticultural course, featuring four weekly lectures and two engaging plant walks.

Elective Course

With some know-how and little practice, you’ll be well on your way to successfully starting your own plants at home.

Capture the contrasts, unique shapes, and crisp lines of the incredible flowers found throughout the Longwood Conservatory District.

Gain a solid understanding of native plants, trees, shrubs, and perennials to then apply to landscape design.

Core Class

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.

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.

Enjoy exclusive access to the Gardens just after dawn and capture the ephemeral beauty of these blooms.