August
14 eventsPressed Flower & Resin Jewelry Workshop
Create your own pressed flower and resin jewelry in this hands-on evening workshop.
Create and Sip: Botanical Frame Workshop
Design a one-of-a-kind dried botanical wall art piece, guided by floral artist Maria Campos.
Fern Mounting Class with Detritus & Decay
Mount a live Staghorn fern onto tree bark with expert guidance, leaving with a ready-to-hang plant that thrives as living wall art.
Mount a Staghorn Fern Workshop
Mount your own mature staghorn fern onto a board and learn how to care for it as living wall decor.
Flower Illustration with Ink: Summer Blooms
Draw expressive line art florals with ink pens, using fresh summer blooms as reference to compose a finished bouquet illustration.
Bioactive Terrarium Workshop with Detritus & Decay
Build a layered bioactive terrarium with soil, plants, isopods, and springtails, learning vessel selection, planting techniques, and long-term care.
Paper Iris Workshop
Create two lifelike iris flowers by hand-shaping Italian crepe paper petals and assembling them with professional techniques.
Terrarium Building Workshop
Build your own terrarium as part of PHS's monthly Rooted Workshops series.
Library Scent Lab: DIY Hand Soap for Grown-Ups
Blend essential oils to create a custom scent, then mix it into castile soap base to make foaming hand soap you can label and personalize.
Girl Talk: Cyanotype Art with Elinor
Sun-print cyanotype designs onto a tote, t-shirt, bandana, or paper you bring, led by Elinor Schulz.
DIY Pressed Floral Bookmarks
Create pressed flower bookmarks by arranging real blooms between cardstock and laminate layers.
Frame Pressed Florals
Design a pressed flower frame using dried botanicals, learning pressing techniques and composition from Lauren of Phlox Hollow Studio.
Cyanotype Botanicals: Blue & White Sun Prints
Arrange fresh leaves and botanicals on light-sensitive paper, then expose it to sunlight to create striking blue and white prints.
Botanical Painting at Grow Perkasie
Paint flowers and plants from observation using oil, working among the gardens at Grow Perkasie's nursery.
September
6 eventsAdult Rustic Garden Planter Workshop
Learn hypertufa casting techniques to create a rustic concrete garden planter using traditional molding methods.
Birding with Troy Bynum & Yannick Lowery
Learn to identify local bird species using binoculars and field guides with Troy Bynum and Yannick Lowery on a guided birding walk.
Inspiration from the Garden: Floral Arranging + Watercolor Painting
Arrange fresh dahlias and seasonal blooms, then paint your floral creation in watercolor.
Cochineal Dye Workshop
Dye fabric and paper with cochineal, learning how this ancient pigment creates reds, pinks, and purples while exploring its cultural history.
Adult Natural Soapmaking with Milk
Learn cold-process soapmaking with milk, creating a full loaf of natural bars with essential oils and botanicals.
Peak Season: Autumn Botanical Field Journal with Margaret Saylor
Learn to sketch and watercolor autumn botanicals in a field journal, capturing peak-season leaves, seeds, and berries with graphite, pen, and color.
October
4 eventsEco-Printing Silk Scarf
Eco print a silk scarf by pressing leaves and flowers directly onto fabric, creating botanical dye patterns.
Cyanotype Collage Art Prints
Create cyan blue UV prints using collaged objects, transparency paper, and found items arranged on light-sensitive paper.
Botanical Alchemy: Mandala Banners with Nature
Create a nature mandala on a cotton banner using hand-dyed fabric and seasonal botanicals, leaving with a one-of-a-kind hanging.
Adult Natural Soapmaking with Layers
Make layered cold process bar soaps with natural ingredients, learning to pour and swirl designs with essential oils and botanicals.
November
3 eventsPlants and Seeds
Meet culturally significant plants and learn seed-saving techniques from Nate Kleinman.
Blue & White Cyanotype Holiday Ornaments
Expose light-sensitive paper with pressed botanicals using UV light, then assemble your cyan-blue prints into gold frame ornaments.
Foraged Winter Pot
Forage branches, seed pods, and grasses to compose a seasonal planter arrangement in a plastic insert you can place in any pot.