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Local Plants for Natural Dyes and Pigments
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
Discover the vibrant world of natural dyes as you learn to create your own beautiful colors from common garden plants, ornamental trees, and even weeds. Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll uncover the art of dyeing fabric and explore the use of mordants. Leave with a swatch book and stunning dyed silk scarf and cotton bandana.
$57
Restoration Project Management
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
Class attendees will be introduced to restoration-relevant project management concepts in order to plan and implement more successful and cost effective ecological restoration projects. Considerations of project management like identifying project needs and stakeholders and researching sites, as well as creating project schedules and budgets will be discussed. Class attendees will also be introduced to important resources for restoration practitioners...
Free
A Closer Look: The Centennial Garden
UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA
The Centennial Garden is at its best in summer. The garden, completed in September 2017 in partnership with the Seattle Garden Club, was designed as a colorful destination at the south end of Azalea Way, overlooking the pond and with views to the Lookout Gazebo. Ray Larson, our Curator of Living Collections, will talk about the plants in this new garden, and which ones are at their best during each season of the year. Your $5 at the door donation...
$5
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Garden Tour & Tasting
UW Botanic Gardens @ 18607 Bothell Way NE, Washington, DC
McMenamins has revitalized the Anderson School, Bothell’s first junior high dating back to 1931. Riz Reyes, McMenamins horticulturalist, will be your guide through the gardens on the 5.4 acre property. The gardens showcase several planting schemes aimed to display diversity and a plant collector's palette. Come see the architectural desert garden, bold and lush plantings outside and inside of the Northshore Lagoon, stroll through the wildflower...
$25
Art of Nature
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
Join Certified Forest Therapy Guide, artist, and writer Julie Hepp as they facilitate nature and art experiences. Participants will be invited to slow down and connect with both human and more-than-human beings through sensory-based activities. Then, participants will be invited to create works by writing, illustration, painting, and working with nature to create patterns and art. Instructor Julie Hepp is a life-long lover of nature. Julie shares...
$30
Vine Pruning
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
This class covers pruning and management of some of our most common ornamental vines: wisteria, common varieties of clematis, Boston ivy/Virginia creeper, honeysuckle, and trumpet vine. This lecture series is designed for those who work in landscape maintenance. Each lecture provides information on tools and techniques for quality pruning with better long-term results and customer satisfaction.
$35
Designing and Creating a Wildlife Habitat Garden
UW Botanic Gardens @ Virtual Classroom
If you’ve been dreaming of a garden that attracts and nurtures songbirds, beneficial insects, and other wildlife, this class will help you make that dream a reality. You will learn a step-by-step method of choosing plants and other features that fit your site and fulfill the daily needs of wildlife, how to turn problem areas into habitat assets, create and manage pest-free feeding stations, and maintenance practices that help keep wildlife in...
$28
Permaculture Orchards & Creating Productive Tree Guilds
Permaculture Orchards & Creating Productive Fruit Tree Guilds Learn how to make your fruit trees healthier, more disease resistant and bear more fruit by understanding the symbiotic relationship of ‘guilds’, including species selection for different trees. Productive fruit trees are gifts that keep on giving for generations! Learn how to make your fruit trees healthier, more disease resistant and bear more fruit by understanding...
Curator Tour: Late Summer in the Arboretum
Ray Larson, Curator of Living Collections, will take us on a journey through the most interesting plant collections in the UW Botanic Gardens. Learn about rare and unusual plants, collections based on genetics and eco-geographic habitats, and unusual stories of how these plants have made their way to us. This tour in particular will highlight the special places displaying the fauna of late summer in the Washington Park Arboretum. This program will...
Soil Formation, Structure, and Chemistry
Scratching the Surface: Soil Formation, Structure, and Chemistry Students will be introduced to the format of the class series and learn the essential basics of soil science; how they are formed, their physical properties and chemistry. Students will be provided and introduced to soil management plan and soil assessment worksheets to develop for their own project sites. Instructors will give demonstrations of soil properties assessment techniques...
Shrubs III: The Puzzlers and Consequences
This class teaches us how to prune rhododendron, hydrangea, callicarpa, Viburnum bodnantense and abelia. Included in this two-hour slideshow are basic pruning techniques techniques, common pruning mistakes and corrective pruning. This lecture series is designed for those who work in landscape maintenance. Each lecture provides information on tools and techniques for quality pruning with better long-term results and customer satisfaction....
Soaking It All In: Understanding Soil Water
This class is part of a six part series, Getting Down to Earth: Understanding soils for ecosystem resilience and repair. We will dive into exploring how water enters, moves, and gets stored in soils and the relationship between levels of soil moisture and ecosystem function. Topics will include how topography influences water movement, soil physical and chemical properties control soil water storage, and field methods for assessing soil water holding...
Soil Conditions and Management Considerations
This class is part of a six part series, Getting Down to Earth: Understanding soils for ecosystem resilience and repair. Building up from the previous classes, we will review soil disturbance and resulting stewardship challenges commonly encountered at restoration sites such as former agricultural land, urban fill, construction sites, brownfields, and degraded natural areas. We will review how to assess for common soil disturbances as well...
Beautiful Solutions to Gardening on Slopes
This class will cover all you need to know about replacing hard-to-manage slopes with easy-care plantings. (This class is not intended for very steep slopes that require structural engineering.) Many homeowners in the Puget Sound region are faced with the challenge of gardening on a slope that may currently be covered with a dangerous-to-mow lawn, difficult-to-access garden beds, or multiple grades. This class will cover all you need to know about...
Soil Management Plan Components
This class is part of a six part series, Getting Down to Earth: Understanding soils for ecosystem resilience and repair. In this final class of the series students will share their soil management plans developed over the previous 5 classes and discuss them with their fellow students and instructors. Emphasis will be placed on best practices for changing climate and drought resiliency.
Creating a Child-Friendly Garden
UW Botanic Gardens @ Virtual Classroom
In his book, Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv writes that “stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play…are the rewards that await a family when it invites more nature into their children’s’ lives.” If you are intrigued by the idea of making inviting and nurturing places for children within your own garden, this class will inspire and inform you! You‘ll learn ways to create...
$28
What's Wrong with My Houseplant?
Learn the normal life cycle of plants and how to troubleshoot leaf loss, pathogens, pests, watering and lighting issues. Ever wonder why your plant's leaves turn brown or yellow? In this class instructor Tassy de Give, co-author of Rooted in Design and Plant Director of Glasswing Greenhouse and Geometry Gardens, will discuss the normal life cycle of plants: what is acceptable leaf loss, how to identify and treat plant pathogens, common houseplant...
Raising Seedlings for the Backyard Gardener
UW Botanic Gardens @ Virtual Classroom
Learn how to start seeds, upcycle seedling containers, harden off your seedlings and eventually plant them out. Growing your own food from seed is the truest form of sovereignty! Raising seedlings indoors saves money, extends your growing season & optimizes space in your garden beds. Learn how to create the perfect seedling, upcycle seedling containers, understand planting depths for different seeds, how to water them appropriately, how to...
$15
Profiles of the Hemisphere's Most Amazing Migrants
The Great Migration: Profiles of the Hemisphere's Most Amazing Migrants If you'd like to know more about how the most powerful birds in the world perform wonders of flight, come hear master birder and nature author Constance Sidles introduce you to the world-class migration specialists, including Bar-tailed Godwits, Arctic Terns, and many others. As the Earth tilts North America back into the Sun, birds all over the Southern Hemisphere feel...
Strange and Unusual Houseplants
Learn about the amazing life habits of unusual houseplants and how some have adapted to become epiphytic, camouflaged, or even predatory. Learn about the amazing life habits of unusual houseplants and how some have adapted to become epiphytic, camouflaged, or even predatory. Instructor Tassy de Give, co-author of Rooted in Design and Plant Director of Glasswing Greenhouse and Geometry Gardens, will discuss and show examples of some of the most...
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