Cabinet of Curiosities: Botanical Edition Workshop with Roadside Blooms

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 able to curate a living curiosity with a few potted plants, dried specimens, seed pods, feathers and fossils alongside dried florals for a quirky, Victorian-naturalist feel.

Reservations required. Registration fee includes instruction and all materials.

Cost is $65 for Museum members or $80 for non-members.

Register online or call (843) 722-2996 ext. 235.

Classes with insufficient enrollment may be canceled. Students will be notified in advance and full refunds or the opportunity to transfer to another workshop will be offered. Student cancellations must be requested 48 hours in advance for a refund minus $10 administration fee. Full registration fee may be transferred to a future workshop or other adult program. Cancellations made less than 48 hours in advance will result in a forfeiture of workshop fee.

Instructor biography

Instructor Toni Reale founded Roadside Blooms in 2012 with a story to tell and a mission to share, believing that beauty and sustainability don’t just co-exist, they work in concert. With over 15 years of experience in the event-planning and floral-design industries, Reale's many adventures have led her to this chapter (ask her about the time she converted a 1971 British ice cream truck into a mobile flower shop; or about her Environmental Geology background).

Since 2020, Reale has enjoyed being a monthly contributing author to the Charleston City Paper where she writes about nature, plants, geology and anything that inspires her.