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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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Preparing Bonsai for Storage

Chicago Botanic Garden

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. 

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Preparing Roses for Winter

Chicago Botanic Garden

Now is the time to start putting your roses to bed for the winter. Join Tom Soulsby and learn about the degrees of cold tolerance and the proper way to protect various types of roses. Grandiflora, floribunda, hybrid tea, shrub, miniature, and climbing roses will be discussed. A portion of the class will consist of outdoor demonstrations and hands-on practice, so dress for the weather and bring thorn-resistant gloves.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Tea 101: Getting to Know Tea

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

In this course, you'll learn the basics of the second most consumed beverage on earth after water—tea. We'll cover how tea is grown and harvested and how the leaves are processed into the many styles of tea on the market today. You'll then get a chance to try each of the six types of tea. Tony Gebely has been studying tea for more than ten  years, has traveled to tea growing regions, and has been teaching tea in the Chicago region for many...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Plants From Cuttings

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Propagating plants by using cuttings is an economical and exciting way to supply plants for the garden. Learn how to propagate annuals, perennials, and even woody plants from cuttings. Cathy Thomas will discuss timing, supplies, and the environment needed, and demonstrate techniques to help you achieve success. Note: Please refer to this Map for more details on the class venue.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Splitting a Beehive Workshop

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Learn how to split your beehive to make nucleus colonies or more honey-production hives. There will be a live demonstration of splitting a hive. All participants are required to bring their own bee suit.  There will not be extra suits available at the class.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Wild World of Weeds

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Explore some of the most common summer weeds in the Midwest. You will learn the basics of weed identification, life cycles, and habitat, in order to best manage them in the landscape.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Seed Cleaning and Storing Workshop

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Explore dry and wet seed processing for your backyard or community garden. The workshop includes strategies to collect seeds, hands-on processing, and tips for storage to extend the life of your seeds.  Materials for this class are inexpensive and easy to find so you can replicate these techniques at home.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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The Magic of Minor Bulbs

Chicago Botanic Garden

Minor bulbs are among the most useful groups of bulbs because they are excellent in naturalistic gardens and in ground cover plantings, and they provide a blanket of color amid emerging perennials in early spring. You will explore many varieties including those that are deer resistant. Note: This class will be taught online via Zoom.  All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts.  Registered students will...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Bulbs for Beginners

Chicago Botanic Garden

Flowering bulbs provide vivid color after the doldrums of winter. Learn to select and grow bulbs to enhance your garden. Discuss season-extending bulb design and how to interplant with perennials and shrubs for a spectacular display. Note: 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

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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Podando para Professionales

Chicago Botanic Garden

Este repaso de prבcticas de podar para jardineros profesionales incluirב tיcnicas, tiempo, y cףmo escoger las mejores herramientas. Debido a que parte de la clase estarב afuera se requiere que traigan tijeras y serrucho para practicar. Una discusiףn de cףmo tartar con sus clientes y quי informaciףn debe compartir con ellos antes de empezar un trabajo tambiיn serב incluido.  This review of pruning practices will be taught in Span...

(122) Advanced 18 and older
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Holiday Lighting Techniques

Chicago Botanic Garden

Do you wish that your outdoor holiday lights could be spectacular? Explore techniques to decorate trees and shrubs with lights. Learn to estimate equipment and time, install the lights, and maintain a beautiful show. A portion of the class will consist of outdoor demonstration.  Dress for the weather.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Natural History of Maples

Chicago Botanic Garden

Discover the world of maples. From the sweetness of sugar to the sturdiness of furniture to the myriad species of moths that dwell in their branches, explore where these trees are typically found and how they have been used over the centuries.  Hear folklore and stories and learn about faunal partnerships. We’ll also look at species and cultivars available in the Chicago area and take a walk to view these stately trees in the Garden. Note:...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Welcome to your Midwest Garden

Chicago Botanic Garden

If you are new to gardening or the Midwest, you’ll benefit from knowing how our climate and changing seasons can affect your garden. Learn solutions to address the ongoing challenges of temperature and moisture extremes, soil problems, and wind to have a successful garden in every season.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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English Gardening Styles

Chicago Botanic Garden

Historic English gardens used beautiful plants in amazing compositions. Discover exciting gardening styles with a strong focus on examining relevant plants and combinations for your own garden.  Explore specific examples of gardening success at gardens such as Great Dixter, Sissinghurst, Gravetye Manor, RHS-Wisley, and the Royal Botanic Garden-Kew.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Soil Science and Fertilizing (Online)

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL

Your trees health starts below the pot line. Take an in-depth look at a multitude of soil components, organic versus chemical fertilizers, mycorrhiza, and root health. Maximizing growth and maintaining tree health is key to creating quality bonsai. This class will be taught online via Zoom. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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The Orchid and the Pot

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Join us for a discussion of orchid cultural requirements, focusing on the orchid root system and the importance of proper potting. Discover what makes a good potting mix, how to pot for different growing conditions and how to troubleshoot poor growth, a lack of flowers, and dying leaves. It’s all in the roots! A tour of the Orchid Show is included.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Get Started with Annuals

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL

Annuals provide constant color in your flower beds, containers, window boxes, and perennial borders. Learn the most dependable varieties as well as the new and unusual.  Topics include soil preparation, plant selection, care and maintenance, and some propagation techniques.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: Online

Chicago Botanic Garden

In addition to writing poetry, Emily Dickinson also gardened. She cultivated flowers on her father's property and in the glass conservatory that he added to the family’s home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Explore Dickinson's gardens through excerpts from her letters and poems, as well as historic and modern images of her garden. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts....

(122) All levels 18 and older
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More Deciduous Trees

Chicago Botanic Garden

Discover the many other hardy trees suitable for your landscape beyond those explored in the Deciduous Tree and Small Flowering Tree courses. You will learn about new trees, less common trees, and new varieties of existing trees. Identification, cultural information, aesthetic qualities, and landscape uses will be emphasized. Prerequisite: Botany 1 suggested. Dress for the weather.

(122) Intermediate 18 and older
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Hands-On Gardening: Staking

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL

Learn why staking is necessary, which plants benefit from staking, when to implement this technique, and materials needed to do so. Then, head outside for some hands-on practice staking plant material around the Garden. Please dress for the weather.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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