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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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Living Pansy Wreath Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Get ready to welcome spring with a vibrant and beautiful living wreath! Join us at the Chicago Botanic Garden for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn how to create a lush arrangement of pansies and ivy on a moss-lined wire frame. Let your front door bloom with the colors of the season.
$99
Introduction to Bird-Watching
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Explore the fascinating world of bird-watching in the beautiful setting of Chicago. Learn the fundamentals of bird identification and observation techniques in this immersive class at the renowned Chicago Botanic Garden. Join us for an unforgettable bird-watching experience and discover the diverse avian species that call this area home.
$86
Pollinator Container Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover the art of creating vibrant, pollinator-friendly containers with a variety of beautiful annuals at the prestigious Chicago Botanic Garden. Enhance your home's landscape and invitingly welcome pollinators with colorful blooms all season long. Don't forget your gloves!
$99
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Tending to Trees in the Garden
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Trees are expensive and valuable structural elements in a landscape. Commonly held misconceptions about trees often lead to oversight of their basic needs. Benefit from the combined experience and knowledge of two lifelong arborists to learn how to work with and enhance tree health.
$40
Front Yard Design
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn the basics of front yard landscape design by demonstrating how proper planting design can change the way you use and view your property. Your design should respond to your home’s architecture and be aesthetically pleasing. Topics include proper plant types and spacing, focusing and screening views, and creating curb appeal.
$40
Water
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
All living things rely on water, and it is becoming scarcer each year. Learn how to maximize water resources in the garden for yourself as well as all kinds of wildlife. Pond, birdbath, or fountain…all can be a wet oasis in your garden created with wildlife in mind so you can enjoy turtles basking in the sun on warm days, birds splashing and drinking in puddles of water, and even the occasional squirrel or chipmunk drinking in between foraging...
$74
Shelter
Having a safe place to sleep and hide is important for any animal, but if we provide the correct habitat spaces, then they will be more apt to use the homes we introduce instead of our attics, garages, or sheds. Birdhouses, old stumps, toad homes, bat houses, and thickets allow many types of animals to safely reside in your garden. Learn how to create shelter areas in the garden to maintain the element of safety for garden dwellers, but manage where...
Introduction to Sustainability
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn how environmental, economic, and social sustainability affect the green industry. Discussions will cover the concepts of sustainability and the role horticulture can play in enhancing the sustainable movement. Note: This class is part of the Introduction to Sustainability series The School’s CEUs=0.3 OPC elective
$74
Personalized Natural Perfume Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Create a personalized natural aroma at this beginner-level workshop while learning about plant origins and distillation. Sample fragrant oils will be provided from around the world, including American clary sage, Egyptian jasmine, French lavender, Italian bergamot, and more. Choose a unique combination of oils for the instructor to blend into your own signature scent. Fee includes .25 ounce bottle of custom natural perfume to take home.
$74
Soil
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Soil is a building block of sustainable gardening. Topics include composting, recycling garden waste, earthworms, beneficial microbes, bioremediation, organic/local compost and soil amendments and container gardening. Note: This class is part of the Introduction to Sustainability series The School’s CEUs=0.3 OPC elective
$74
Positive Economic Impacts for our Landscape
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road Annex 2, Chicago, IL
Learn how sustainable practices can help your wallet with a reduced water bill and less equipment to own. Green roofs extend the life of roofing materials and reduce heating/cooling costs with plants, and the reuse of plants and materials on-site reduces unnecessary expenses. Note: This class is part of the Introduction to Sustainability series The School’s CEUs=0.3 OPC elective
$74
Social Impacts of Sustainability
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Chicago, IL
Simple ideas can have big impact. Topics will include the reduced crime in tree-lined areas; cleaner air and reduced storm water runoff; planted areas filtering waste that enters the soil, reducing groundwater pollution; and community movements for green spaces and habitat development. Note: This class is part of the Introduction to Sustainability series The School’s CEUs=0.3 OPC elective
$74
Painting Your Garden with Plants: Sun and Shade
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Composed of 2 classes: I. Designing the Sunny Border, 10 a.m. – noon This class will discuss how to artfully combine plants with an emphasis on the use of color, texture, and form. II. Designing the Shade Garden, 1 – 3 p.m. This class provides solutions and ideas for artful plantings that can help you create effective combinations that consider color, texture, and form.
Best New Annuals for 2019
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
It’s going to be a banner year for annuals. This course presents many new cultivars, along with several wonderful yet underutilized species for both container and in-ground plantings in sun and shade. Focus on what makes each unique and ideal, including morphological characteristics and garden performance. Other topics include cultural requirements, design and combinations, and sources. The School’s CEUs=3 hours
$74
Summer Preserving - Tomato Canning
Peterson Garden Project @ 5917 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL
It's harvest time, and nothing beats a home-grown tomato fresh off the vine! But when you have more fresh tomatoes than you can eat, it helps to know how to preserve them so you can enjoy them in the winter months. In this hands-on class, we'll cover the basics of boiling-water-bath canning, including information on food safety and recommendations on how to store your newly canned goods. You'll make and can your own jar of tomato sauce during...
$88
Summer Preserving – DIY Giardiniera Pickles
Peterson Garden Project @ 5917 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL
Giardinera, that ubiquitous Chicago condiment, is a perfect pickle to take advantage of the best peak-summer produce. Come learn how easy it is to make your own, whether you like it spicy or mild, topping an Italian beef or as part of a picnic pickle platter. Join us for this hands-on class designed for the novice canner as well as the seasoned pickler looking for inspiration. We’ll discuss the difference between “quick” pickles and canned...
$88
How to Raise Butterflies at Home
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Observing the transformation of a tiny caterpillar into a beautiful adult butterfly is miraculous. Learn methods of sheltering larvae and pupae in a safe, protective environment to ensure they escape predation and disease, maturing into adulthood. You will build a pupae/larvae rearing box to raise butterflies at home.
$65
Poisonous Mushrooms of Illinois
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Along with the many edible mushrooms dotting our Illinois landscape, our woodlands, flood plains, ravine communities, and even our own backyards often contain poisonous mushrooms. Get introduced not only to mushrooms that can make you very sick and those that are deadly, but also to the various toxins these mushrooms contain.
$65
Summer-Blooming Perennials
Summer means sunny blue skies, warm breezes, and flowers—lots of flowers. Join Richard Hawke, plant evaluation manager, for a discussion of some of the best summer-blooming perennials for your garden. He will highlight a variety of perennial favorites—old and new—from more than 30 years of trials at the Chicago Botanic Garden. We will look at reliable perennials for sunny and shady gardens, and will discuss their growing needs and maintena...
Backstage Bonsai Tour and Sake Tasting
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Enjoy samplings of different varieties of sake and a behind-the-scenes tour of the Bonsai Studio on the south end of the Garden. Explore our two outdoor growing spaces and where we overwinter our trees in our three climate-controlled areas. Get a sneak peek at nearly 300 trees and our new facility. Alcohol will be served in this class; participants must be 21 years of age or older.
$74
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