Betty Ann Galway, AIFD, CFD

Betty Ann is a certified floral designer with a true passion for flowers and sharing this joy with others. In July 2019, she was inducted into the AIFD (American Institute of Floral Design) and in September 2021 became an AIFD Certified Evaluator & Judge. She currently instructs floral design classes at Green Spring Gardens & Twinbrook Floral as well as the Design Day workshops sponsored by NCAGC Judge Council. Before coming to NOVA she worked at Norfolk Botanical Garden, where she retired after 13 years as the Adult Education Director. In 2005 she launched the Floral Design Certificate Program at the Garden - the only floral design certificate program on the southern east coast. Currently she is freelancing mainly as a design instructor; she has worked in several floral shops and has had her own floral wedding business. She enters in many flower shows and is an Accredited Life Judge through the Federation of Garden Clubs. Since 2010, her floral interpretations of the arts have been displayed in Richmond during Fine Arts & Flowers, four times for the opening of the Virginia Arts Festival at Chrysler Hall and for years all the Virginia Stage Company's performances (both in Norfolk VA). A member of Floralia, Richmond Designer's Guild, Creative Floral Arrangers of the Americas, Five Hills Garden Club, Thoroughgood Garden Club and both the National Capital Area and Tidewater Judge’s Council. She has a biology degree from Mary Washington College of Virginia, has been happily married for 36 years and has two grown children and is a proud grandmom of three beautiful granddaughters and two grandsons.