Oct 19th
6–8pm CDT
Plan Your Vegetable Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Garden’s online class on planning your vegetable garden is an enjoyable virtual experience you can take anywhere! Fall is a great time to start planning next year’s vegetable and herb gardens. Learn about soil preparation and tests, vegetable garden layouts, heirloom and modern cultivars, and when and how to plant for a continued, flavorful harvest. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two...
Thursday Oct 19th, 6–8pm Central Time
Native Plants 101: Gardening with Native Ephemerals and Understory Plants
UW Botanic Gardens @ Online Class
Find out what native Puget Sound plants are first to grow and flower in the spring and how to incorporate them into your garden! This class will cover some of the native blooming flowers and plants that you can grow in your shady garden spot that will brighten up your yard early in the year, from Bleeding Heart to native Trillium and Vanilla Leaf.
Wednesday Jan 10th, 6:30–8pm Pacific Time
Plant CSI: Unwelcome Visitors in the Garden
UW Botanic Gardens @ Online Class
Become a Plant Crime Scene Investigator (CSI) and learn how to spot some emerging pests! There are a number of invasive and exotic insect pests already in our gardens and landscapes, and more importantly, there are also pests to watch out for in order to prevent new invasive infestations. This online course will focus on identification of spotted wing drosophila, red lily leaf beetle, European chafer, brown marmorated stink bug, Popillia...
Tuesday Nov 7th, 9–10:45am Pacific Time
Growing Salad Greens Indoors
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Garden’s online class on indoor gardening is an enjoyable virtual experience you can take anywhere! Explore the foundational tools needed to grow greens indoors. We will discuss materials needed (and alternatives) as well as ideal crop varieties, the benefits and drawbacks of direct sowing versus transplanting, and optimal conditions for successfully growing greens indoors. This class will be taught online via Zoom. Registered students will...
Tuesday Nov 14th, 6:30–8pm Central Time
Ghoulish Plants in Folklore: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Enjoy enchanting stories about spooky plants found in fairy tales and folklore. Discover the mystery of foxgloves, aconite, and other ghoulish plants. 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.
Thursday Oct 26th, 6:30–8pm Central Time
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Indoor Herbs and Houseplants
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Learn how to select and nurture culinary herbs as well as a variety of popular and unusual houseplants that will brighten your home this winter. 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.
Thursday Nov 2nd, 6–8pm Central Time
Introduction to Plant Families
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Garden’s online class on plant families is an enjoyable virtual experience you can take anywhere! Discover basic botany and terminology needed for plant identification. Plants that belong to the same family share some of the same characteristics—especially the flowers. This knowledge can help you better understand and care for related plants. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days...
Wednesday Nov 15th, 6:30–8:30pm Central Time
Sustainable Pruning Practices for Natural Area Trails
UW Botanic Gardens @ Online Class
The focus of this 2-hour webinar will be on how to manage and prune native vegetation adjacent to trails, drives, and streets for optimal environmental functions, appearance, safety, & visibility. We will cover the current best pruning practices and how they translate for the specific vegetation goals and functions of natural area plantings. Considerations for reducing long-term labor needs and how to lengthen the time between pruning cycles...
Tuesday Nov 14th, 9–11am Pacific Time
Ecological Restoration Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management
UW Botanic Gardens @ Online Class
Course attendees will learn simple, low-cost monitoring and reporting protocols that allow practitioners to gauge their progress in meeting project goals and keep stakeholders engaged throughout the restoration process. Participants will also be provided with specific strategies and resources for managing non-native plants, insects, and animals commonly found at restoration sites in the greater Puget Sound region and for responding to herbivore...
Tuesday Jan 23rd, 9–11am Pacific Time
(2 sessions)
Focal Point Plants
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online garden design class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Many well-designed landscapes rely on focal points to draw the eye to a certain location in the garden. Focal points can be either non-living structures and elements or an interesting and effective plant. Discover some of the most striking plants that can become powerful focal points when thoughtfully selected and placed in the landscape. ...
Thursday Nov 30th, 6:30–8:30pm Central Time
2023 Urban Forest Symposium: Interweaving Indigenous Eco-Ethics & Healing into Urban Forestry
UW Botanic Gardens @ Online Class
Come join us for the 2023 Urban Forestry Symposium, focusing on Indigenous eco-cultural environment stewardship, decolonizing climate justice narratives, food sovereignty and access, and Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standards for action setting in urban forestry.
Thursday Nov 2nd, 10am–4:30pm Pacific Time
25 Backyard Feeder Birds
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Get to know your feathered outdoor dining guests. Learn about common resident and migratory birds. Bird feeding basics such as feeder and food selection, care, and the importance of offering water will be covered. Bird migration, citizen science, and other tips 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 will receive login instructions...
Saturday Nov 18th, 10:30am–12pm Central Time
Bird Talk: The Super Migrants
UW Botanic Gardens @ Online Class
Two million flaps. That's how many times a shorebird weighing less than a small grape must beat its wings to fly from its nesting grounds in the Arctic to its wintering grounds in South America. And yet billions of birds make this arduous journey twice a year, passing through our state in wave upon wave of flights in spring and fall. It is a wondrous phenomenon of nature, one that we are just beginning to understand. Come along on the birds' journey...
Thursday Oct 12th, 7–8:30pm 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
