Name: Succulent Pumpkin Centerpiece Workshop
Start: 2025-11-21T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-21T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Harry P. Leu Gardens

Succulent Pumpkin Centerpiece Workshop with Farmgal Flowers.
About this Event

Succulent Pumpkin Centerpiece Workshop

Friday, November 21, 2025

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Instructor: Eileen "FarmGal" Tongson

Join FarmGal Flowers to create your very own Succulent Pumpkin. We’ll show you step-by-step how to make this long-lasting Fall centerpiece for your Halloween and/or Thanksgiving table. Eileen will also teach you how to care for you succulents after the holiday season has ended.

Please bring a medium (10”-12” wide) pumpkin (wide, Cinderella type pumpkins work best) and floral scissors to class. All other materials provided. Please contact Eileen ([email protected]) for any questions.

Ages 12 +. Registration is required to attend.

Registration includes admission to the beautiful gardens before or after class.

Eileen Tongson is the owner of FarmGal Flowers (farmgalflowers.com), an urban flower farm and design studio whose mission is to teach others to grow and share flowers. She is also one of the gardeners at East End Market where she grows flowers and helps maintain the market garden. In addition to growing her own flowers, Eileen designs with them and provides arrangements for special occasions, restaurants, and events. Eileen completed the University of Florida IFAS Master Gardener Program and has studied flower farming and floral design at numerous locations over the years including Floret Flower Farm and Flower School New York.

Eileen is a Gardening and Floral Design instructor at Harry P. Leu Gardens and East End Market. Her flowers and gardening expertise have been featured in Flower magazine, Florists Review, In Her Garden magazine, Edible Orlando, the Slow Flowers Society, the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers, The Spruce, and in Floret Farm's book, "Small Plot, Big Impact: Inspiring Stories, Profiles & Advice from 30 Flower Growers From Around the World" and Slow Flowers founder Debra Prinzing’s book, “Where We Bloom.” Eileen was voted Best Florist in Best of Winter Park 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019 and was named the Garden Club of Jacksonville's Designer of Distinction in 2022. Clients and collaborations have included The Ford Motor Company, Chico’s (Clothing), Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Williams-Sonoma, Celebrity Chef Kelsey Barnard Clark, JoJo’s Shake Bar, the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, and the Orlando Museum of Art. Eileen is a contributor to the Growing Kindness Project where she shares her knowledge and skills for growing flowers in hot climates and encourages others to “garden and give.” To further FarmGal’s mission in her local community, Eileen is also an educator and contributor to the Seed Library at the Winter Park Public Library. Lastly, Eileen and FarmGal Flowers is featured in Debra Prinzing’s new book (published May 6, 2025) entitled “The Flower Farmers: Inspiration and Advice from Expert Growers." This book highlights twenty-nine of today’s most inspiring flower farmers and their stories, how-to-cultivate expertise, and favorite new varieties in a lushly photographed guide to feed your every floral fantasy!

Participants must withdraw from classes at least 5 days prior to the start of class in order to receive a full refund or credit. If we must cancel a class, we will make every effort to inform you prior to the class time, and you will receive a full refund or credit. Only those registered for the class will be permitted in the classroom. Childcare is not provided.