Virtual Tours of Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens

AARP Pennsylvania and Phipps conservatory are collaborating on a series of seven virtual events throughout the year including virtual tours of the conservatory’s popular seasonal displays as well as garden-inspired educational classes. All events are free to attend and you do not have to be an AARP member.

Come boost your houseplant IQ with Phipps Conservatory horticulturist Everett Chronowski. Everett will cover all the essential aspects of care to keep your indoor plant friends happy and healthy, including tips on orchids! Register here: https://events.aarp.org/8E1eMy

Just because a plant is edible doesn’t mean it can’t be good-looking. Learn how to make an edible garden an attractive landscape feature instead of a weedy eyesore. This gardening class will be led by George Weigel of Phipps Conservatory. The presentation will include time for participants to ask questions. Register here: https://events.aarp.org/WdN2Na

Join Polly Berginc, Floral Instructor with Phipps Conservatory, for a relaxing session to learn the basic skills needed to create beautiful garden vase arrangements. You will learn natural design techniques with foliage, flower care, and tips for extending the vase life of your summer garden blooms. Be inspired to bring nature’s garden into your home! Register here: https://events.aarp.org/omQqo8

This beautiful tart could be a show stopping appetizer at any party or an unique colorful addition to your holiday table. Join Chef Emily Larsen, Phipps Culinary Instructor, as she makes a flaky tart crust with a flavorful caramelized onion and goat cheese base topped with fall harvest vegetables. Register here: https://events.aarp.org/8M977v

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Take a virtual guided tour through Phipps Conservatory’s Spring Flower Show: A Bloom for Every Room! This year's eye-catching displays highlight all the quintessential spring blooms you love to see this season, and in a unique twist, each room is dedicated to a different stunning bloom — one for tulips, one for pansies, lilies and so on — allowing you to appreciate the beauty and unique details of each flower. You’ll also get a chance to look at Phipps’ new Tropical Forest Panama exhibit, and a Phipps horticulture expert will be available to answer your questions after the tour!

Take a virtual guided tour through Phipps Conservatory’s Fall Flower Show! This year's show celebrates the prominence of the chrysanthemum in Japanese culture through vibrant autumnal displays. Mums in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors will be presented alongside evocative props including jewel-toned fans, a moon gate, a pagoda, foot bridges and a celebratory ryuu, or dragon, whose brightly colored body floats from end to end of the glasshouse’s iconic Serpentine Room. A Phipps horticulture expert will be available to answer your questions after the tour!

The whimsy and enchantment return to Pittsburgh’s premiere holiday experience with your virtual guided tour of Phipps Holiday Magic. Inside the historic Phipps glasshouse, it’s a “wild winter” as each room features a topiary tribute to the wondrous wildlife associated with the season, from overwintering songbirds and majestic reindeer to polar bears, penguins, owls and more! Outside, the magic continues as Phipps’ Winter Light Garden features one showstopping luminous display after another. A Phipps horticulture expert will be available to answer your questions after the tour!