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Garden Classes Coming up in Washington DC and Online
Unfortunately, no classes in-person in Washington DC have spots left, but 15 classes live online are available.
The Fragrant Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Imagine wonderful scents in your garden from spring into autumn, provided by aromatic flowers and fragrant foliage. By selecting from a wide range of trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and annuals, you can achieve the sweet smell of success in your garden! This focused addition of fragrance in the garden can be both enjoyable and therapeutic. The School’s CEUs=2 hours OPC elective This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must...
Saturday Jun 24th, 11am–1pm Central Time
Gardening with the Seasons: Summer
UW Botanic Gardens @ Online Class
Summer keeps us busy in the garden--weeding, watering, and dealing with pests! This class will cover tips for proactive garden care for the summer months, including care of seasonal containers, watering practices, pest management, and more! Summer brings an abundance of growth and blooms...and sometimes garden problems. Managing weeds and irrigation are prime targets for attention at this time of year. Time-saving tips for proactive garden care...
Thursday Jun 15th, 7–8:30pm Pacific Time
Small Space Garden Design
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Develop a repertoire of tools that enable you to evaluate and implement strategies to maximize the potential of garden spaces with small footprints, including condominiums, townhomes, and apartments. You will learn how to approach basic garden design and layout, plant selection, and everyday maintenance concerns for small sites. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class...
Saturday Jun 10th, 11am–1pm Central Time
Container Gardening with Native Plants
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Many native plants make great choices for container gardens because they are adapted to the local growing conditions. From shade to sun and short to tall, there are plenty of plants that will create a small, wildlife-friendly oasis on your patio, balcony, or porch from spring through fall! The School’s CEUs=2 hours OPC elective This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts....
Wednesday Jun 21st, 6–8pm Central Time
Cottage Garden Designs
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Exuberant gardens overflowing with old-fashioned flowers come to mind when we think of cottage gardens. Shrub roses, foxgloves, poppies, forget-me-nots, hollyhocks, vegetables, and herbs all have a place. Discover bed and border designs and plant combinations that can help you get the look of an English-style cottage garden. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts....
Wednesday Jul 26th, 6:30–8:30pm Central Time
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Fall Garden Care
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Proper garden care in the fall helps ensure healthy plants the next spring. Learn techniques for taking care of your lawn, trees, shrubs, and perennials, including fall fertilizing, mulching, cutting back plants, and protecting plants from wind and animals. Get pointers for fall planting of woody plants and spring-flowering bulbs. Please choose either the on-site or online class attendance option. The online class will be taught via Zoom. All registrations...
Wednesday Aug 30th, 6–8pm Central Time
Basics of Garden Design
New York School of Interior Design
Success or failure of any landscape design hinges on hardscape decisions. Hardscape is essentially everything except the plants. Plants are the stars but hardscape is the stage on which they perform. In this course you will learn how and why professionals build grade elevations and use soil composition to sculpt the earth. Thereafter we'll study current design trends and compare these with conventional practices. Why are native plants all...
Wednesday Jun 14th, 6–8pm Eastern Time
(3 sessions)
Going Native: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Maybe you started with a coneflower or milkweed and now you are hooked on native plants. The internet and social media describe gardening with natives in broad strokes. This class will fill in details as you learn some basics concepts about native plants, as well as some misconceptions. We will also discuss the pollinators that benefit from our native gardens. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online...
Wednesday Aug 9th, 6:30–8:30pm Central Time
Perennial Bed Design for Shade
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Discover a palette of shade-loving perennials to brighten and enhance low-light garden areas. You will learn to create colorful and harmonious combinations using a wide range of plants that thrive in shady spaces. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.
Saturday Jul 29th, 11am–1pm Central Time
Hardscape Basics
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 00000
Elevate your garden designs by incorporating hardscape elements. These structural components of a landscape provide both functional and aesthetic benefits. Create garden design plans that integrate hardscape structures such as paving, landscape lighting, and garden walls to achieve your landscape design goals. The last class is a field trip to view examples of content learned in class. Prerequisites: Graphics, Introduction...
Thursday Jun 8th, 6:30–9pm Central Time
(11 sessions)
Gratitude Journaling
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Learn the basics of gratitude journaling as a tool to reflect on life’s blessings. After this introductory class focusing on context and fundamentals, you will be prepared to begin your journey of self-discovery via paper and pen. Please choose either the on-site or online class attendance option. The online class will be taught via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive...
Sunday Jun 25th, 1–2pm Central Time
Bonsai: Seasonal Storage: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
In this class, we will discuss the steps necessary to prepare your bonsai trees for the fall and winter seasons. Proper feeding, pruning, and winter storage options for both temperate and tropical bonsai will be covered. Have your bonsai trees ready for late summer to early fall work. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions...
Wednesday Sep 6th, 6–8pm Central Time
Marriage of the Written and Painted Word
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
By combining both inspirational or personal words with a strong painted image, your voice is amplified. Working with poetic words coupled with your watercolor painting, you will learn how to design a piece for maximum impact. Discover how to create an artwork with a cherished inspirational phrase, striking message, or personal words effectively composed within the painting. What you learn from the class can also be applied to your own...
Wednesday Jul 26th, 6–9pm Central Time
(4 sessions)
Pen and Ink 2
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Explore advanced pen-and-ink techniques and composition in botanical documentation and illustration. You will draw a plant of your choice and its dissected parts, with emphasis on creating a traditional, beautiful, scientific botanical plate. While perfecting skills in linear and tonal drawing, students will learn to communicate accurate botanical information and the value of aesthetics in scientific botanical art. A supply list will be sent. Prerequisites...
Tuesday Sep 19th, 6–9pm Central Time
(6 sessions)
Plant CSI: Why Does my Japanese Maple Look so Bad?
UW Botanic Gardens @ Online Class
Become a Plant Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)! Learn about key plant diseases and insect pests that can cause problems for favorite trees and shrubs in the landscape. Japanese maples (Acer palmatum) are wonderful specimen trees in the landscape, showing off many form and color variations. Yet often stems will die back, and sometimes even large limbs or an entire tree will die. It sometimes appears to happen overnight! This 1.75-hour online course...
Tuesday Jul 11th, 9–10:45am Pacific Time
Terrarium
Sill Life Terrarium @ 1832 Fenwick St NE, Washington, DC 20002
Join terrarium instructor Holley Simmons at New Columbia Distillers, producers of Green Hat Gin, for an open terrarium class and gin tasting. We'll be filling glass bubble bowls with rocks, moss, hearty succulents and a few other surprises.
$50
Open Terrarium with Succulents
Sill Life Terrarium @ 3015 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001
Throughout the lesson, students learn step-by-step instructions on how to build a terrarium, why we use the materials we use and how to care for your terrarium once it heads home
$50
Essential Course
Washington Flower School @ 7409 Brink Rd, Gaithersburg, MD 20882
This is once a week 8-week course for the students who completed the Basic Course. It follows the same curriculum but do more in-depth study. If you've worked in flower industry or experienced little bit but always not sure if you are doing it right, you might want to jump in this course. In this course, we will start simply by checking your basic skills and knowledge. We designed this particular course to make sure you learn all the categories...
$1,580
8 sessions
Designer's Course
Washington Flower School @ 7409 Brink Rd, Gaithersburg, MD 20882
This is once a week 8-week course for an experienced florist. You should have some experience with flowers, maybe you are doing your church flowers, your friends’ wedding, you took some other classes before, or you’ve worked at flower shop. We will share with you with some trendy techniques that will set you apart, and show you some clever armature that makes your design better. We make learning about flower fun and easy. Each day, everything...
$1,980
8 sessions
Basic Course
Washington Flower School @ 7409 Brink Rd, Gaithersburg, MD 20882
This is your first step to a fabulous career in the floral world. Upon successful course completion, you will receive your Basic Floral Design Certificate. Students who complete Basic Course, Essential Course and Designer's Course are awarded the title “Certified Floral Designer(CFD)” by American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD), and qualified to apply to the Professional Floral Designer Evaluation (PFDE), the final step to become a member...
$1,580
8 sessions
