In celebration of spring ephemerals, this paper botanical workshop focuses on trilliums, which emerge in March and typically bloom through April. Trillium catesbaei (rosy wakerobin) and Trillium discolor (pale yellow trillium) will be featured. Participants will use crepe paper to make a life-size replica of two trillium plants while learning about the botanical characteristics of this genus. No previous experience needed, but requires use of scissors and good finger dexterity. Materials provided, 30-minute lunch break (bring your own).

Join Roadside Blooms at the Charleston Museum for an imaginative hands-on workshop where you'll create your own botanical keepsake. Inspired by the Charleston Museum's natural history collections, guests will be creating botanical art pieces.

At Longwood, beauty is more than an outcome--it's a catalyst for curiosity, creativity, and scientific discovery. Join Longwood Associate Director of Science Communications Jessica Turner-Skoff, Ph.D., and explore how visually compelling landscapes, elegant plant forms, and artful design sharpen observation, inspire research, and enrich the scientific process. Drawing from Longwood's tradition of display-driven discovery, and global examples where aesthetics and science intersect (from botanical art that advances taxonomy to garden design experiments that reveal ecological patterns), consider how beauty helps us see more clearly, think more imaginatively, and pursue solutions that connect people, plants, and place. This talk invites you to consider beauty not as ornament, but as an essential partner in scientific exploration.

At Longwood, beauty is more than an outcome--it's a catalyst for curiosity, creativity, and scientific discovery. Join Longwood Associate Director of Science Communications Jessica Turner-Skoff, Ph.D., and explore how visually compelling landscapes, elegant plant forms, and artful design sharpen observation, inspire research, and enrich the scientific process. Drawing from Longwood's tradition of display-driven discovery, and global examples where aesthetics and science intersect (from botanical art that advances taxonomy to garden design experiments that reveal ecological patterns), consider how beauty helps us see more clearly, think more imaginatively, and pursue solutions that connect people, plants, and place. This talk invites you to consider beauty not as ornament, but as an essential partner in scientific exploration.