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Deciduous Trees and Saturday Walks
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn to identify more than 50 large deciduous trees, gain a greater understanding of the multitude of functions they serve in gardens and the landscape, and discover the wonders they offer year-round. Develop your ability to identify trees using their buds, bark, and habit, in addition to leaf shape and other characteristics. OPC, PGL 1, PGL 2, and GDC requirement
Gardening Techniques: Session A
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Online and On-site Hybrid Learn tips and techniques used by professional gardeners through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Acquire solid gardening skills and determine best management practices. We will cover fall planting, bulbs, turf care, plant wildlife protection, garden maintenance, and winterization. Dress for the weather. A supply list will be sent with your confirmation.
Open Studio
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This studio class is open to all levels. You may bring a project of your choice in any medium, or work with plant subjects to create a new art piece. Lectures and demonstrations illustrate principles that pertain to all media. A supply list will be sent.
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Herbaceous Perennials
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover ornamental qualities, identification techniques, cultural practices, and landscape uses of more than 60 herbaceous perennials for the Midwest. Plants studied will include favorites such as astilbe and hosta, in addition to lesser-known plants including meadow rue and toad lily. Prerequisite: Botany 1. A supply list will be sent with your confirmation.
Soil Basics, Intensive Session
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Soil is an irreplaceable natural resource that affects plant selection and growth. Learn to maintain healthy soil; use compost, fertilizers, soilless and potting mixes, and other amendments. Discover how water cycles through a garden and affects soils and plants. A supply list will be sent.
Conifers and Broad-Leaved Evergreens
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover more than 60 outstanding conifers and broad-leaved evergreens for the Midwest. Students will learn identifying characteristics, cultural requirements, and landscape uses of conifers and broad-leaved evergreens ranging from shrubby dwarfs to towering trees. Prerequisite: Botany 1 Note: Classes are held on Tuesdays at Classroom 1, Learning Center. Walks Meet on Saturdays at Visitor Center
Plant Propagation Techniques
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Discover the fundamental principles involved in plant propagation. Each session is scheduled at the ideal time of year to ensure success of the technique covered. Detailed laboratory sessions will cover seed collection and growing, hardwood cutting of flowering shrubs and conifers, grafting of conifers and flowering trees, and the division and layering of perennials and flowering shrubs.
Seasonal Container Series
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Each season, you will explore the Garden grounds and discover an array of striking plants, interesting color and texture combinations, and unique container arrangements. You will create a seasonal container at each session for your sunny or partial-shade patio or porch.
Introduction to Beekeeping
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Learn all the basics needed to start keeping bees. This includes what to expect, how to put together equipment, how to get bees in your hive, finding the queen, feeding, what to look for after the bees are installed, and seasonal chores. There will be hands-on exercise in the field. All participants are required to bring their own bee-suit. No extra suits will be available at the class.
$99
Business of Gardening
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Have you ever dreamed of owning your own business? Learn from a former Chicago Botanic Garden certificate program student who started 15 years ago and now has two successful, profitable companies. This course will teach you what you need to know to form your company, estimate to make a profit, marketing and advertising and much more. Everything begins with a dream and a plan. Enrollment is limited for this course. Note: The School's CEUs=...
Crop Planning
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL
This workshop covers site analysis, vegetable garden plan components, space saving techniques and spacing, cool- and warm-season crops, crop and variety selection, three-season and succession planning. There will be crop plan examples and a template for you to start your own crop plan. Bring a drawing of your farm site with dimensions.
$75
Water Garden in a Vase Workshop
Learn the proper methods to grow a living plant arrangement in a water-filled vase, including which plants do best growing in water and how to care for them to keep them happy and healthy for a long time. Adding unique elements and features such as rocks, pebbles, sand, or moss can help you create your own special design. All the plants, vase, and added features are supplied to complete your unique water garden to enjoy at home. Please bring gloves...
Open Studio, Fall Session
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This studio class is open to all levels and will feature a short lecture and demonstration each week illustrating a principle that pertains to all media. Select plant materials will be provided for the session. The School’s CEUs=15 hours ART elective
Lines, Curves, and Symbols
Online and Onsite Hybrid Landscape architects, landscape designers, and gardeners often use a graphic palette and symbols to produce a master landscape plan that conveys their ideas. Enhance your plan-development skills and dive into more detail with drafting, lettering, and freehand drawing when preparing a document for client presentation. A supply list will be sent. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts....
Beginning Beekeeping
The Morton Arboretum @ 4100 Illinois Rte 53, Lisle, IL
Learn the basics of beekeeping. Curious about honey bees? Interested in starting your own hive and harvesting your own honey? Already have a hive and want to learn more about managing it? Join our experienced beekeeper and explore the history of beekeeping, bee anatomy, starting up a colony and managing it through the year, equipment basics, honey bee pests and diseases, harvesting honey, and more. Recommended text: The recommended text, ...
Reading Your Beehive
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Examining your beehive can be confusing without the proper training. Learn how to inspect a colony, how to find the queen, and how to evaluate the health of a beehive. All participants are required to bring their own bee-suit. No extra suits will be available at the class.
$62
Backstage: Production Greenhouses
The Garden’s production department grows nearly a half-million plants every year. Join Tim Pollak for a behind-the-scenes tour through the Chicago Botanic Garden’s greenhouses and nursery. Be the first to see which spring annuals will appear in the 2019 annual display beds, hanging baskets, containers, and hanging hayracks. You will also get a preview of the start of fall mums. Note: A map will be sent with your confirmation.
Bonsai: Intermediate-The Next Step
If you understand the basic concepts of bonsai and want to further your understanding and technical skills, this class is for you. Each session in this six-week course includes a brief lecture, hands-on experience with your trees, and a review and critique of work done in each session.
Formulating Perfumes with Natural Essences
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Dive deeper into the world of scents in this workshop where you will learn perfume structures, plant origins, and their historical context. You will blend two unique perfumes during our time together, improving your skills and olfactory recognition as we analyze each blend. Fee includes two .25 ounce vials of custom natural perfume to take home. No preliminary perfuming experience is necessary.
$165
Plant Morphology: From Roots to Fruits
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Chicago, IL
Discover the terminology that botanists use to identify flowering plants (angiosperms). To understand the technical descriptions often used in plant identification guides and keys, a general knowledge of the descriptive terms used is helpful. We will discuss the botanical vocabulary used to describe flowering plants from roots to fruits and everything in between. We will also look at live material in the classroom and work through plant keys at the...
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