Floral Design

Floral Design Workshop Series

Victorian Floral Design Workshop

Flowers As A Means of Communication

This is a non-credit, hands-on, on-site, outdoor Spring floral design workshop led by master floral designer Melissa Palmer. Learn about the unique history of Victorian floral design including the history of the “tussie-mussie” fad and learn the key to uncoding the different hidden messages conveyed in these meaningful bouquets and assigned to these beautiful flowers. Although Victorian bouquets were used as a means to convey such sentiments such as the desire for courtship, friendship among other sentiments, this class will show you how to create a masterful aromatic friendship bouquet using Tulips, Irises, Rosemary and more in addition to a tussie-mussie adornment of your very own!

Materials provided. Floral may vary.
No prerequisites required.
Open to ages 18+.
If weather inclement, workshop will be indoors
Spaces are limited!

For more info and to register, click HERE.

Fairytale Garden Floral Design Workshop

This is a non-credit, hands-on, on-site, outdoor Spring floral design workshop led by master floral designer Melissa Palmer. Learn how to create a whimsical vegetative adult fairytale landscape arrangement using beautiful Daisies, Blue Thistle, Craspedia, Larkspur, foraged ornate tall Lily, Bear, and Sea grasses, and more! Participants will even make their own dragonfly adornments using Maple samaras and even a fairy house using grapevine and moon lights!

Materials provided. Floral may vary.
No prerequisites required.
Open to ages 18+.
If weather inclement, workshop will be indoors
Spaces are limited!

For more info and to register, click HERE.

About the Instructor

MELISSA PALMER trained under Gregor Lerch in Germany and attended the Boerma Institute in the Netherlands in Dutch Master Design. She owns her own business, Florum Flowers and Petaling Posies, and specializes in beneficial insects, is a Master Bee¬keeper and Mason bee specialist. She teaches classes in floral design and beneficial insects at Longwood Gardens and is a frequent speaker at the Philadelphia Flower Show and teaching at Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

See Melissa in action Here!