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Garden Classes Coming up in San Francisco and Online
Unfortunately, no classes in-person in San Francisco 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
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
Bitter Botanicals and Gut Health: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Healthy digestion is the foundation of wellness and the bitter flavor is often the first taste that an herbalist will introduce to a client to curb a digestive upset. Bitter herbs stimulate digestion, limit sweet cravings, reduce inflammation, release tension, and elevate the mood. Learn why this forgotten flavor is vital to your gut health as we discover unique ways to add this valuable taste to your foods, home apothecary, and even cocktails....
Tuesday Aug 29th, 1–3pm Central Time
Seaweed Foraging Adventure: Sonoma Coast
forageSF @ Shell Beach, Bodega Bay, CA 94923
Examine underwater life with our resident seaweed expert. Heidi has been sustainably harvesting and selling seaweed for over a decade: she knows what to pick, how to pick it, and most importantly, how to make it taste delicious! This two to three-hour guided morning foray will meet on the beach in Sonoma, and be followed by a talk on what you collected, the science of seaweed, and how to cook your catch. You can expect to collect up to 10...
$93.71
Mobile Art with Everyday Material
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA 94804
This workshop is open to all levels of experience with sculpture. Students may work with any material of their choice to create a sculpture that moves! We will walk through the creative process, experimenting with material and playing with balance. Through group discussion and class demos students will explore the different qualities of materials - texture, color, symbolism, weight, surface and physicality. Students will work with a material...
$50
Wild Food Walks: East Bay
Want to know what you can eat in the woods? This is a great class for anyone who wants to learn about the most common wild foods, medicinal plants and edible flowers in the Bay Area. Classes are held in parks in The East Bay. Each class lasts about two hours and is suitable for the novice and veteran forager alike. Learn about the wild food you see on San Francisco restaurant menus—everything from miner’s lettuce to wild radish flowers. ...
$53.71
Wild Food Walks: San Francisco
Want to know what you can eat in the woods? This is a great class for anyone who wants to learn about the most common wild foods, medicinal plants and edible flowers. Classes are held in parks in San Francisco. Each class lasts about two hours and is suitable for the novice and veteran forager alike. Learn about the wild food you see on San Francisco restaurant menus—everything from miner’s lettuce to wild radish flowers. Meeting...
$63.71
Kokedama: Hanging Moss Ball Planters!
Richmond Art Center @ 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA 94804
Kokedama is a Japanese method of encasing a root ball in moss. Traditionally used in Bonsai, these decorative and appealing planters can be used on house plants to create a unique, beautiful and eye-catching statement. This course will provide the materials and knowledge to create a hanging Kokedama plant to take home, and to replicate this process at home. Note: Materials fee of $25 due to instructors day of.
$35
Wild Mushroom Foraging: Santa Cruz Mountains
These 3-4 hour classes meet in the Santa Cruz Mountains (about 2 hours from SF) and cover the basics of wild mushroom foraging. After a brief talk on the ecology of edible mushrooms and safe and ethical mushroom hunting, we'll set you free to forage. At the end, you’ll meet back up with Maya to help identify your finds. It's important to note that although you will learn a ton about wild mushroom hunting in this class, we're at the whim of nature,...
$93.71
Central Coast Mushroom Adventure and Cooking Demo
Join Todd Spanier, the “king of mushrooms,” for a foraging adventure on the breathtaking Central Coast. Todd is a long-time forager and mushroom chef with a decade-long history of providing some of the top restaurants in California with the choicest mushrooms. We’re super excited to have him on board. The class will meet at a secret location near the South Sierra Spring, the exact spot to be revealed a week before the start of class, but you...
$93.71
Wild Mushroom Adventure: Sierra Morels
forageSF @ We meet up in the, Pollock Pines, CA 95726
Join resident expert and chef Patrick Hamilton on a wild mushroom hunt. This guy knows his stuff! With over 40 years of mushroom hunting experience, he'll help you find mushrooms, make sure you're picking the right ones, and teach you the best methods for cooking them. These classes are great for both the beginner and veteran forager. The Sierra forays focus on morels and spring porcini, as well as other fine edibles most of you will never...
$93.71
Wild Mushroom Foraging Adventure: Marin Coast
Join resident expert and chef Patrick Hamilton on a wild mushroom hunt. This guy knows his stuff! With over 40 years of mushroom hunting experience, he'll help you find mushrooms, make sure you're picking the right ones, and teach you the best methods for cooking them. These classes are great for both the beginner and veteran forager. These 3-4 hour classes will cover the basics of wild mushroom foraging. After some instruction, we'll set...
$93.71
Sierra Foothills Mushroom Adventure and Cooking Demo
Join Todd Spanier, the “king of mushrooms,” on a foraging adventure in the breathtaking Sierra Foothills. Todd is a long-time forager and mushroom chef with a decade-long history of providing some of the top restaurants in California with the choicest mushrooms. We’re super excited to have him on board. The class will meet at a secret location near the Sierra Foothills, the exact spot to be revealed 48 hours before the start of class, but...
$93.71
Seaweed Foraging, Cooking Class, and Beachside Picnic
forageSF @ 4721-4741 Shoreline Hwy, Bodega Bay, CA 94923
Join us in learning about the diverse and delicious world of California seaweed! In this 3.5–4- hour class, we will hike out during the early morning low tide to explore Marin’s tidepools and learn how to identify and sustainably harvest edible seaweed species native to the Pacific Northwest. Seaweed will be identified by morphology, habitat, and taste, and will be harvested according to ethical foraging practices. The class will be led by Avery,...
$113.71
Wild Mushroom Foraging Adventure: Sonoma Coast
forageSF @ 10438 California Hwy 1, Jenner, CA 95450
Wild Mushroom Foraging Adventure on Sonoma's Coast Join us on a wild mushroom hunt with resident expert and chef Patrick Hamilton. This guy knows his stuff! With over 40 years of mushroom hunting experience, he'll help you find them, make sure you're picking the right ones, and tell you the best methods for cooking mushrooms that you discover. These are great classes for both the beginner and veteran forager. The Sierra forays focus on morels...
$93.71
South Sierra Spring Mushroom Adventure and Cooking Demo
Join Todd Spanier, the “king of mushrooms,” for a foraging adventure in the breathtaking South Sierra Spring. Todd is a long-time forager and mushroom chef with a decade-long history of providing some of the top restaurants in California with the choicest mushrooms. We’re super excited to have him on board. The class will meet at a secret location near the South Sierra Spring, the exact spot to be revealed a week before the start of class,...
$93.71
Vertical Gardening DIY
Succulence @ 402 Cortland Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110
During this class you will learn about lots of over-the-counter vertical gardening products and then make a do-it-yourself vertical garden. The goal in our classes is to get you as crazy excited about gardening with succulents as we are and to see the entire world as one big planter waiting to happen. This class is hands-on, so dress in clothes that you don't mind getting a little dirty and prepare to enjoy an evening of education, and creativity! ...
$65
Doormant Spraying Basics Seminar
Sloat Garden Center @ 2700 Sloat Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94116
We welcome back Suzanne Bontempo, expert gardener and IPM advocate (IPM=Integrated Pest Management). Suzanne will share her knowledge of how to spray effectively while being environmentally conscious. Dormant spraying helps protect plants for the growing season and is a critical part of effective gardening.
$10
