Oh Christmas Tree

Get a head start on your holiday decorating, since you’ll create this two-foot topiary with green, Spanish moss and pinecones (harvested from our farm) that will endure for years.  Just pack it away, and bring it out every year to enjoy, and help you remember the 2009 holiday season.

This class is back after a year off, since so many people asked about it.

 Click here to hear Aretha Franklin's version of this song.

I’m Getting Nuttin’… 

Inspired by the 2009 Christmas Ideas magazine of Better Homes and Gardens, but with mini pinecones and cinnamon sticks for added texture and fragrance.  This will also last for years, provided you can pack it away in a place safe from nut-munching critters.  Or, you can do as our bookkeeper, Dawn, is planning on doing, and put it outside after the holidays as an ornamental bird feeder!

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

This 24 inch resin window box can also slip right inside your own box, or simply bring your own, and design right in it.  Features fresh greens and berries harvested from our farm, pine cones, and faux apples.

Click here to hear an old version of this song by Doris Day and Bing Crosby.

Winter Wonderland

Classy porch pot with our fanciest greens, unique twigs and red berries is designed in a metal magazine rack to use inside after the holidays. This also makes a beautiful statement on a large mantle, in front of a fireplace, or as a remembrance piece for a loved one.

Hollywood & Vine

Assemble a 10 foot garland of graceful white pine, fragrant balsam, hearty cedar and a little bit of holly.  Embellish with endless pinecones, and twist with a few grapevines.

All I Want for Christmas

…is a stunning porch pot studded with brilliant branches and berries, gold-spayed lotus pods, and ribbon chou-chous, all nestled among fragrant evergreens harvested fresh from our farm.

Sleigh Bells ‘n Sleds Creativity Day

$129

Wooden Sleigh
 Porch Pot  

10 Foot
Jingle Bells Garland

Tealight Sleigh Bell Centerpiece 

Wooden Sled
 Door Swag

For some, celebrating Christmas isn’t about a single day, it’s a whole season of festivities, where the journey to success is just as important than the destination.

It’s not about grabbing some pre-fabricated decorations created by the thousands in a factory. It’s about enjoying the process of creating a beautiful, festive home for you and your family.

It may also be about spending time with someone special – a friend, mother, daughter or sister. If this sounds like you, why not join us?  

Have some fun, learn a new skill, and leave the mess behind.

Make all 4 projects shown at left, and enjoy a delicious lunch.

To Grandmother’s House We Go

Bring this fresh, cut- flower arrangement of Chrysanthemums and Bird-of-Paradise to your hostess and let the conversations begin!

This picture doesn't do the project justice.  Please click on the picture to see some more ways of creating this whimsical centerpiece.  I got the idea from a gentleman in Southern California named Jonathan Fong.  I came upon his website, and he has some really cool ideas of things to do with cut flowers.  I bought his book, Flowers that Wow, and I will be featuring more of his projects this spring.

Of all the classes in this season's list, this is my favorite!  It's simple, fun, and makes you smile.  What more could you ask for?

Click here to listen to a beautiful country version of this song by the Juke Box Band.

Deck the Halls

A brand new twist on a classic Williamsburg Fruit Plaque. Shiny magnolia leaves surround fresh greens and faux fruit, all in a grapevine pocket.

Many of the elements in the arrangement can be re-used each year, with the addition of some fresh greens and berries.

Sleigh Bells ‘n Sleds Creativity Day

$129

Wooden Sleigh
 Porch Pot  

10 Foot
Jingle Bells Garland

Tealight Sleigh Bell Centerpiece 

Wooden Sled
 Door Swag

For some, celebrating Christmas isn’t about a single day, it’s a whole season of festivities, where the journey to success is just as important than the destination.

It’s not about grabbing some pre-fabricated decorations created by the thousands in a factory. It’s about enjoying the process of creating a beautiful, festive home for you and your family.

It may also be about spending time with someone special – a friend, mother, daughter or sister. If this sounds like you, why not join us?  

Have some fun, learn a new skill, and leave the mess behind.

Make all 4 projects shown at left, and enjoy a delicious lunch.

Sleigh Bells ‘n Sleds Creativity Day

$129

Wooden Sleigh
 Porch Pot  

10 Foot
Jingle Bells Garland

Tealight Sleigh Bell Centerpiece 

Wooden Sled
 Door Swag

For some, celebrating Christmas isn’t about a single day, it’s a whole season of festivities, where the journey to success is just as important than the destination.

It’s not about grabbing some pre-fabricated decorations created by the thousands in a factory. It’s about enjoying the process of creating a beautiful, festive home for you and your family.

It may also be about spending time with someone special – a friend, mother, daughter or sister. If this sounds like you, why not join us?  

Have some fun, learn a new skill, and leave the mess behind.

Make all 4 projects shown at left, and enjoy a delicious lunch.

Frosty the Snowman

Transform Styrofoam balls into two realistic snowballs. Make them into cute little snowmen (actually, a snowman and a snowwoman) nested in a basket of fresh greens to enjoy inside or outside.

In looking at the picture, I just realized how much better the snowpeople would look with SCARVES! So I'll be sure to give you plaid ribbon to make scarves too!  How bad of me to forget to keep their cold necks warm?

I get a kick looking up the songs to include on our website, and I like to dig up unusual versions to introduce people to different styles of music.  This is apparently the original version of this song.  Click here to have a listen.

Jingle Bells

If you don’t have the stamina to make all four projects in our all-day seminar, come and make the sled swag.

Please sign up early.  I bought all the sleds they had, and I don't know if I can get any more.

This is a very large swag that will make a beautiful statement on your front door, or anywhere else you choose to put it.

Because It’s Christmas

Create a round wreath of fresh greens, cones & twigs, or choose a star, square, arch heart, or snowflake to best compliment your home.  Click on the picture to see the snowflake (the wreath we made a few years ago in the All-day workshop) and other choices you have of wreath shapes.

Hollywood Squares

This contemporary-style wreath has a base of fragrant balsam, but is embellished with shiny holly & boxwood greens and colorful red berries.

This picture does not do the class justice.  I will try to get a new sample made to include the decorations for this wreath.                           

Partridge in a Pear Tree

After 14 years of holding the Boxwood Tree class, we’ve come up with a new twist using faux pears, red ribbons, and a cute little birdie.  Of course, you can always choose from a wide variety of decorations instead, including glass balls, red berries, and dried flowers.

This makes a great gift for someone who no longer wants a big tree in their home, but still wants to have a Christmas tree.

My Favorite Things

Fragrant balsam, shiny laurel, and wispy pine support orange slices, dried quince, lavender, faux apples, cinnamon sticks & wild rose hips.

This will be our fourth year with this popular class!  We have now added a morning session for our deluxe classes!

I Saw Mommy…

…kissing Santa Claus underneath the Kissing Ball! Once a Victorian era parlor decoration, these now adorn porches across New England.  Can also hang indoors.  Made with fragrant balsam, a touch or laurel, glass balls, and colorful ribbons & bows.

This is another class celebrating its 14 year anniversary!

Owl City

WHOOOO wants to make this?  You do! Combine two narrow wreaths of greens, cones and berries into a circular embrace, making a cozy home for a beautiful, white snow owl.

We offered this class 2 years ago, but the picture didn't give anyone an idea of how big it was, so we asked our staff member (and work-study intern) Amanda to pose with it (because I'd need an hour in make-up and wardrobe to look good enough for a picture!  Ah, to be 18 again...)

Everyone who comes to the nursery has been commenting on our cute, little white owls!

Gingerbread
      House

Make an old fashioned Gingerbread House. Bring along your favorite kids or grandkids! You don't need to sign up for a time, just for a day. Show up between 10 am and 3 pm and be ready to have some fun!

Gingerbread
      House

$19

Let it Snow

OK, so you can’t actually use this ceramic shovel to dig your way out of a blizzard, but if you’re stuck at home, at least it will be lovely!

This isn't the song we all know, it's a different one by Boyz II Men, and the harmonies are amazing.

Light Has Come

Create this classy lantern centerpiece with fragrant evergreens so you can inhale the scents of the season indoors through the New Year.

We only have a limited number of these lanterns, so sign up early!

Sound the Trumpet

If you’re a musician, or just love good music, this arrangement of fresh greens and fresh cut flowers won’t leave you singing the blues.

Everyone who has come by in the last weeks has drooled over this arrangement, so please sign up early. I only bought 12 trumpets, because this really should be a deluxe class, but as a music lover myself, I had a soft heart, and kept it at $29.   sign up early, and I'll find out if I can get more.

I Have No Gift to Bring

Not you, if you give make this poinsettia basket. Includes a gift certificate to refresh it for Easter with spring flowers at another workshop! Easy to do, so sign up to make several!  This is a great way to introduce your friends to the pleasure of a Bemis Farms Nursery workshop.  Give them the basket you made, and the gift certificate to return in April.

You know how I am always telling you to sign up for the last classes of a season?  This is it! I hate for anything to go to waste, since we won't be heating the greenhouse after Christmas. So you'll  get a poinsettia (size to be determined by whatever we have lots of) plus lots of greens, berries and cones.  We may even have other plants to choose from like cyclamen, Christmas cacti, or maybe even an orchid or two.  So be sure not to miss this class.