Floral Design 1 Online Class for a summer 2023

Floral Design 1 Online Class for a summer 2023

It’s a first! Longwood Gardens is offering our Floral Design 1 Online Class for a summer session. Make it part of your summer vacation, it’s a great time of year to start learning. Flowers and supplies are shipped to students and lessons come in with instructional...
PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW 2023

PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW 2023

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society welcomed spring 2023 by staging the Philadelphia Flower Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The theme “Garden Electric” gave inspiration to growers and designers to stage a breathtaking display of plants and flowers....
Daffodils in Sand—Celebrating Spring

Daffodils in Sand—Celebrating Spring

On April 15 I will teach a class at Longwood gardens “Dazzling Daffodils—Structured in Sand.” The class begins at 9:30 a.m. and includes a quick walk to look at some spring bulbs as they grow, then back to the classroom where students will be given a container...
Holiday Reminiscence

Holiday Reminiscence

January 2023 is here, and I am thinking back on a very fun project from the past holiday season. Longwood Gardens invited its Continuing Education Floral Design instructors to stage floral designs in the conservatory’s Music Room display. My photographer friend, Kate...
FRIENDS AND FLOWERS WELCOME THE WINTER HOLIDAYS

FRIENDS AND FLOWERS WELCOME THE WINTER HOLIDAYS

Photographs by Kate Fahey My December began the holiday season with a visit from the Dallas Garden Club to the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pennsylvania, for a tour of the historic building and a floral design celebration to usher in the 2022 Christmas season....