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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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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. ...
Small Space Food Gardens
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Bill Shores will offer an overview of techniques to produce food organically in small urban/suburban spaces. Through photos and garden planting graphics, you will gain an understanding of the process of designing a successful food garden. Topics include efficient use of in-ground space, intensive and succession planting techniques, raised bed gardens, season extension, indoor gardens, and building and maintaining healthy soils.
$37
Brambles and Berries for the Beginner
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Would you love to be able to harvest fresh berries from your own backyard? If so, this class will convince you how easy it is to successfully grow berry fruits. You will learn how to choose the best varieties, select and prepare a site, and use proper planting and pruning techniques, as well as understand other maintenance requirements. Dress for the weather, as part of the class will be outside.
$45
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Fantastic Perennials for Fall
Many perennial plants naturally bloom late in the year, so to maintain a fantastic garden through the months of fall, it is crucial to incorporate a large percentage of them. With the right mix of perennials, home gardeners can successfully produce a diverse, colorful show to end the growing season. In this course, Jacob Burns will review the finest autumn line-up for Chicago gardens and provide lessons on how to care for each plant. Class...
Winter Tool Prep
Before temperatures go below freezing, learn how to properly sharpen and oil your garden tools; winterize lawn mowers, small power equipment, and irrigation systems; and get snow equipment ready for the winter season. You will have a hands-on opportunity to practice what you learn, so bring along a pair of pruners for sharpening.
Urban Composting
Compost is a valuable soil amendment, and making it provides a great way to recycle abundant yard and food wastes. Even with limited or no yard space, you can produce surprisingly large quantities of your own high-quality compost. Join Bill Shores as he explains the composting process, how to choose and handle materials, ways to fit composting into small urban spaces, what containers you can build or purchase and how to use them effectively, harvesting...
Gardens in Winter
Winter is the forgotten season in the garden, but it doesn’t have to be. With a little planning, our winter gardens can be beautiful. Proper plant selection can make the garden a wonderful place even in the coldest season. Find out which plants can provide winter interest.
Garden in Miniature Container Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Shrink your perspective and see just how rewarding creating miniature gardens in containers can be. Inspired by the work in the Gardening in Miniature books by Janit Calvo, this special workshop includes all of the instruction and materials needed to create a living, miniature garden in an outdoor container. With proper care and placement, your container should live outside for several years. Learn how to apply standard design practices to create...
$19
Growing Salads Indoors
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn to grow organic salad greens at home, whether you have garden space or not! Professional gardener Bill Shores, who has grown specialty greens for more than a decade and currently manages chef Rick Bayless’s market garden, will treat participants to a visual feast of microgreens. Then he will demonstrate how to plant the seeds in growing trays, and discuss maintenance and harvesting techniques.
$39
Backstage Pass: The Orchid Show
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
For one cold winter month only, the Regenstein Center and the Garden’s Greenhouses are filled with more than 10,000 orchids for our annual Orchid Show. Join Wade Wheatley to learn about the various varieties of orchids, watering and growing techniques, and a behind-the-scenes perspective on how the Orchid Show was created. A short tour of the Orchid Show is included in the fee.
$32
Leave the Seeds
Not only do the seedpods of perennials feed birds and wildlife throughout winter, they add a rich textural element to the dormant garden. Explore seeds, pods, and stems that bring interesting shapes and structure to the garden.
Tool Prep and Tool Sharpening Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Before temperatures drop below freezing, learn how to properly sharpen and oil your garden tools; winterize lawn mowers, small power equipment, and irrigation systems; and get snow equipment ready for winter. You will have an opportunity to practice what you learn, so bring a pair of pruners or other small tools for sharpening.
$40
From Design to Reality
Join Craig Bergmann as he shares how to manage aesthetic expectations alongside the reality of garden maintenance and budget. Determining viable plants for our region, how to select plants and partners for different site conditions, and aesthetic results will be discussed. Profiles of finished projects will be shown to represent their evolution from paper to planting. The School’s CEUs=1.5 hours GDC elective This class will be taught online...
Gardens of the 1920s
Home gardens in the 1920s celebrated and welcomed nature. Birdhouses, birdbaths, fish ponds, and rock gardens were the rage. Cottage-garden perennials, such as Canterbury bells, irises, foxglove, phlox, pyrethrum, coreopsis, hollyhocks, roses, columbine, and poppies were just some of the flowers that adorned front and back gardens.
Gardens for Midcentury Modern Homes
A well-designed midcentury house is a thing of beauty. Open floor plans, large window walls, exposed beams, and projecting eaves are just some of the defining architectural features. Well-defined outdoor space, floor-level patios, abstract geometric lawns, and restrained plantings are characteristic of midcentury landscapes. The overall intent is a flowing relationship between indoor and outdoor space. We’ll discuss hardscapes, feature elements,...
Advanced Pruning Techniques
This class is ideal for those interested in pruning topiaries, espalier, and some of the more challenging plants such as arborvitae, yew, juniper, and other conifers. A Garden walk will be included to view how best to prune some of the more interesting plants in the Garden.
Tough Plant or Potential Trouble?
Some plants are really tough and can be useful in difficult situations. These same plants have the potential to get out of control and turn into trouble in our garden. What are these plants and how do we determine whether to use them or not? 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.
Gardening for Birds and Butterflies
One of the great joys of gardening is taking time to observe all the winged wonders that visit your plants. Discover some of the most common birds, butterflies, and beneficial insects that visit local gardens and learn what to plant to attract them.
Vertical Gardening: Vines and Climbers
Vines add dimension, soften walls, dampen noise, and provide screening. Vertical plants work for any size space from woodlands to urban balconies. Review the merits of several varieties of vines, lianas, and ramblers in the landscape. Support structures, methods of attachment, and cultivation will also be discussed.
Backstage Pass: Floral Celebrities
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
The Garden’s production department grows nearly a half-million plants every year. Join Tim Pollak for a behind-the-scenes tour through the Chicago Botanic Garden’s greenhouses and nursery. Be the first to see which spring annuals will appear in the 2022 annual display beds, hanging baskets, containers, and hanging hayracks. You will also get a preview of the start of fall mums.
$40
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