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Learn how to grow your own vegetables and maintain a beautiful garden in the city of Chicago with classes on urban gardening, container gardening, and sustainable gardening practices.
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Lesser-Known Summer Native Plants
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Summer wildflowers improve a garden’s ecology, enliven the senses with scent and movement, create havens for birds and pollinators, and animate green spaces of any size. Explore long-lasting summer wildflowers for garden and vase. Learn planting combinations for sites of different sizes and conditions. A Garden walk is included, so please dress for the weather.
$75
Common Weed Identification and Control
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Weeds are a common problem in every landscape lawn and garden. Their control depends on correct identification. In this class, we will learn to identify common weeds and the control options available.
$75
Winter Growing: Extending the Season
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
Winter growing? This workshop is for aspiring growers interested in learning best-practice season-extension techniques. If you are growing in-ground or in raised beds what the ways you can extend your garden and what vegetables will thrive or grow in the cooler months.
$75
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Forest Bathing Immersion
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Escape to the healing embrace of nature's sanctuary as you discover the ancient practice of Japanese forest bathing. Immerse your senses in the calming energy of the forest, reducing stress and boosting your immune system. Join us for a serene and mindful walk, followed by a tranquil tea ceremony using native plants.
$87
Native Plants Versus Nativars
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Explore the distinctions between native plants and nativars, and discover their varying effects on pollinators, foliage color, food source quality, plant size, and flower shape. Gain insights on how to successfully incorporate both into your garden and explore some of the cultivated cousins of native favorites. Don't miss the chance to join this informative garden walk.
$75
Staghorn Fern Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn how to create stunning and unique home decor with the Staghorn Fern Workshop. Discover the art of mounting staghorn ferns onto rustic wooden boards, mimicking reindeer antlers, for a festive touch. Leave with a beautiful mount and the knowledge to care for your creation for years to come.
$90
Sustainable Gardening: Pollinator Garden Seminar
Sustainable Gardening Series Pollinator Garden Seminar with Melinda Myers Kick off pollinator week with gardening expert Melinda Myers. Learn to support pollinators in your landscape with this detailed, practical, and hands-on seminar, led by one of the region’s leading horticulturists. Why are pollinators important? Whether planting a garden, enjoying the beauty of your landscape or sitting down to a delicious meal, you have bees, butterflies...
Harvest Course
Each class in the Harvest Course will discuss a different common vegetable that is harvested in that particular month, and teach you how to pick, prep, and store it. We'll also demonstrate a few recipes you can make to get the most out of your delicious homegrown produce! Schedule: A Summer Harvest: Greens Wed 9/16 A Summer Harvest: Tomatoes Tue 9/22 A Fall Harvest: Herbs Sun 10/18
Heirloom Apple Tasting
Experience some of the great wealth of flavors not found in commercial apples today. This class will feature a collection of heirloom apples, once the common apples of the day and now only found in scattered collections in this country. Understand the nuances and complexities of apples our ancestors once knew. Sharpen your taste for apples that you may never find anywhere else. Savor the myriad of apples from our past.
Plants from Hardwood Cuttings
Many deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs can be propagated by hardwood cuttings. This type of cutting is taken in the winter when the mother plant is dormant. It is an economical and easy way to propagate woody plants. Join us to learn the process in this hands-on class.
Landscape Design for Energy Efficiency
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Think of French garden design and you immediately envision beautiful, intricate parterre gardens, uniformly shaped plants, geometric planting beds, walkways, borders, or long avenue of trees or allées interspaced with large water features and garden ornaments. French garden design is a very formal, very ordered gardening style with lots of straight lines, balance, and symmetry. This type of garden style is created to impress, but we will discuss...
$139
Vines for Northern Illinois
Vines add add beauty through their flowers, fruits, and foliage. They can also add height to small gardens, soften harsh lines, and hide unattractive structures. Learn which vines help diversify and add interest to your home landscape.
Ornamental Grasses
Ornamental grasses can provide beauty nearly all year long. The variety of sizes, shapes and color can fit almost any garden. Learn how to grow some of these beautiful plants in your own garden.
Ravine Ecology & the Residing Mushrooms
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
The glacial out carvings along Lake Michigan's shoreline make the ravines one of the rarest ecosystems in Illinois. You will discover how the ravines were created, what makes them such a rare habitat, their unique fungi and flora, and contemporary threats to this delicate system.
$65
Fire Building for Adults
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Begin with a review of important outdoor fire safety and learn about different types of firewood. Gain hands-on experience in building, lighting, and tending an A-frame fire or a log cabin fire before safely extinguishing the flames. The workshop concludes with a marshmallow roast. Dress for the weather, as part of the class will be held outside, and avoid synthetic clothing and shoes.
$74
Fabulous Fragrant Plants
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
A personal garden should engage all five senses, including your sense of smell. Discover the world of fragrant ornamental plants to add a scent experience to your home spaces. You will take a look at flowers and foliage and the many ways you can use and enjoy scented plants. A Garden walk is included, so please dress for the weather.
$62
The Thorny Side of Roses: Pests and Diseases
Roses are universally loved, but pests and diseases can temper the excitement of even the most passionate rose enthusiast. Tom Soulsby will review common rose pests and diseases and share tips with you on diagnosis and control. He will also dig deeper into how prevention, proper garden maintenance, and plant selection are the best first steps toward a healthy rose garden.
Fruit Trees for the Beginner
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
What a sweet reward it is to walk outside, reach up, and pick one of your own homegrown fruits. This class will cover the basics on planting and maintaining fruit trees. Different varieties, site selection, preparation, proper planting, yearly maintenance, and integrated pest management will be discussed. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students...
$45
Essential Perennials: Add Panache to Your Outdoor Space
This illustrated talk will focus on using perennials in various parts of the garden, however much space is available. We will talk about perennials for sun and shade, for groundcovers and along walkways, in containers and hanging baskets, and in wild, native plant, and rock gardens. We will also take a look at companion bulbs and shrubs that can really light up a garden and make it memorable. Questions of maintenance will also be addressed.
Coping With Deer
Deer have become a serious problem for gardeners across the country. However there are ways to curtail their hungry ways, without resorting to fences, physical barriers, and routine spraying. Some plants, including tulips, daylilies, and impatiens, are top of the favorite deer food list, but a host of others are unpalatable to them and mostly left unbrowsed. While it is impossible to name a single deer-proof plant, gardeners should not despair. ...
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