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Flower Arranging with Store-Bought Bouquets
New York Botanical Garden @ 20 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
Create your own professional-looking arrangements with economical, store-bought bouquets. Using simple design principles and fresh flowers from your local grocery store or farmers market, learn how to design and create your own elegant arrangements. $45 materials fee. Please bring: Pruners and a bag/box to take your arrangement home.
Plants for Landscaping - Blended
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
This blended class meets online for some sessions and on NYBG grounds for others. Registered students will receive login instructions and a syllabus with specifics. Choose the right plant for the right place, based on site-specific design and maintenance criteria. Learn landscape values such as size, texture, color, and flowering and fruiting seasons. Review trees, shrubs, groundcovers, annuals, and perennials suitable for this region. Please...
6 sessions
Landscape Design Tips: Learning from Before and After
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Using illustrative before and after photos of various projects she has executed throughout her long career, landscape designer Jan Johnsen shares 25 specific tips to enhance your garden. Techniques include "Lure of the Sheltered Corner," "The Principle of Three Depths", "Raising the Canopy", and many more. Students will be given a handout listing all tips discussed in class.
Perennial Plant Combinations
New York Botanical Garden @ 20 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
Whether in a shady corner or a sunny border, selecting the right plant combinations makes the difference between a ho-hum garden and one that gets rave reviews. Concentrating on perennials, learn to use color, texture, height, and bloom when combining plants to create a harmonious look for your garden come spring.
2 sessions
Fundamentals of Gardening
New York Botanical Garden @ 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Explore the basics of successful, environmentally friendly gardening. Topics include soils and their improvement, seed sowing, vegetative propagation, planting, pruning, watering, weeding, mulching, and disease and pest control. This course is also required for the Horticultural Therapy Certificate. Recommended Texts: The New Gardener's Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Grow a Beautiful and Bountiful Garden, Daryl Beyers ISBN-13: 978-1604698749...
6 sessions
Wake Up Your Garden Saturday: Soil Basics: Get it Right
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Rich, nutritious soil makes for large, healthy plants and reduces the need for regular fertilization. Learn the difference between soil structure and texture; how these differences affect plant growth; and how you can modify your soil to improve its qualities. Give your garden a solid foundation, and you'll reap the benefits for years to come.
Wake Up Your Garden: Spring Gardeners Task List
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Spring cleaning in the garden can be fun. Get shrub and herbaceous borders spruced up and looking good! Review a checklist of tasks to be performed during spring maintenance, ranging from raking off winter mulch to looking for signs of winter injury and noting where gaps in the garden can be filled. All of this gives your garden a head start on a great growing season.
The Art and Artistry of Chanticleer: Dan Benarcik
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Chanticleer Garden, a gracefully designed series of thoughtfully planted rooms, is also known for the whimsical artwork crafted by its staff in the off-season. Their original metal sculptures, ceramic containers, wooden furniture, carved stone elements, and creative plant supports are an integral part of the visitor experience. Horticulturist Dan Benarcik highlights many of these artists and illustrates how their work creates pockets of charm and...
Ikebana: A Comprehensive Approach
New York Botanical Garden @ 20 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
This ancient Japanese art form seeks to create a living sculpture that transcends the beauty of nature. More than merely arranging flowers, ikebana often emphasizes other areas of the plant, such as its stems and leaves, focusing on shape, line, harmony, and balance. Instructor Junko Miura, acclaimed floral artist and a second-generation ikebana master, guides you through the basic principles as well as the moribana and nageire forms. $180 materials...
3 sessions
Interior Plantscapes
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Florists and floral designers who want long-lasting, gorgeous interior plantings won't want to miss this unique class from florist, horticulturist, and indoor plant expert Chris Raimondi. In this class, Chris shares essential horticulture practices for proper selection and maintenance of plants used in atria,corporate offices, and for special events. Trimming, pruning, soil testing, pest prevention, cleaning, and more are covered. $30 materials...
2 sessions
Beekeeping Basics
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Class will take place outside on NYBG grounds and follow current safety procedures. Registered students will be sent information regarding meeting location and log-in information. Expert beekeepers Frank Mortimer and Bob Slanzi walk you through the ins and outs of what's needed to safely, productively, and enjoyably begin to keep honeybees in a populated area. You'll learn how and why a beehive functions as one living organism, as well as the practicalities...
Soapmaking Workshop
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Bring the bouquet of a summer garden indoors with handmade, naturally moisturizing glycerin soaps. You'll learn the traditional melt-and-pour process and combine fragrances of various dried herbs and essential oils—lavender, rosemary, mint, and more—to make four bars to take home. Note: All the needed materials are included and provided for the students.
Paper Peonies
New York Botanical Garden @ 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Join Livia Cetti, the nation's premier paper flower artist, as she guides you how to make your own remarkably realistic charm peony from stem to stamen. Bleach, cut, and shape your paper into petals that you assemble using wire and floral tape, creating an exquisite, lifelike flower that will brighten your home regardless of the season.
Chainsaws: Use, Safety, and Maintenance
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Whether you are a budding arborist or weekend woodcutter, knowing how to use your chainsaw safely and maintain it properly are keys to success. This lecture-demonstration course by an ISA-certified arborist teaches you the basics of chainsaw use and care, sharpening, and bar tensioning. Please bring lunch.
Dauntless Dahlias
New York Botanical Garden @ 2950 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
Low-maintenance dahlias thrive in our coastal climate. When they bloom in mid-July, their spiky, colorful blossoms brighten up gardens and flower beds across the city. Learn best practices to help your dahlias flourish, including how and when to disbud, stake, water, and much more.
