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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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Clematis Up Close

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

A profusion of showy blossoms makes clematis the undisputed queen of the climbers and an essential vine for every garden. Recent breeding work has increased the number of useful, appealing cultivars. Many distinctive, less-commonly known small-flowered species and hybrids extend the flowering season. Learn the identification, culture, and maintenance requirements of clematis.  Note: The School’s CEUs=0.3 OPC elective

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Design and Build a Washpack

Chicago Botanic Garden

Building a great washpack on your farm site can help you increase efficiency and reduce waste while you process the bounty of a harvest.  Learn about the materials, design, and construction process for Windy City Harvest farm sites all over the city. Season after season, we improve and refine our build strategy over multiple seasons so every site has a functional washpack that also meets food safety requirements for urban agriculture.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Glass Jar Terrarium Workshop

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

Terrariums are back. Learn how to create a glass jar terrarium step by step. A glass jar and an assortment of small indoor plants for a variety of light conditions will be provided for you to create your own miniature oasis to enjoy this winter and all year long.  Please bring gloves, an apron if desired, and pruning shears.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Espalier Basics

Chicago Botanic Garden

In espalier, a woody plant is trained as a vertical trunk with horizontal branches in a single plane. This technique is both beautiful and productive, showing both the art and science of horticulture. Topics include history, contemporary applications, and tools. You will gain experience identifying fruit spurs and leaf and shoot buds, practice tying supports, and learn where to prune.  Existing pruning knowledge is necessary.  Dress...

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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Orchid Dish Garden Workshop

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

Orchids are great houseplants with long bloom times, and they are even more fantastic when presented as part of a miniature landscape in a shallow container. Create your own “tropical” oasis to enjoy this winter and all year long. Please bring gloves, an apron, and pruning shears. Alcohol will be served in this class; participants must be 21 years of age or older.

(122) All levels 21 and older
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Hanging Lettuce Basket Workshop

Chicago Botanic Garden

Who said lettuce has to grow in the Garden or in pots? Discover different varieties of lettuce that perform well in hanging baskets, and how to grow and care for them. You will pot up your own basket of lettuce to take home and enjoy. Required Materials: Please bring gloves.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Bioregional Herbalism Series

The Resiliency Institute

Learn Holistic Herbalism skills of plant connection, identification, journaling, and sustainable sourcing & harvesting on our guided walks! Discover herbal allies, experience herbal preparations, and integrate herbal plants into your daily life! Join us for a series of live, in-person, guided interactive walks in the western Chicago suburbs and learn how to connect with the many highly valuable herbal plant allies surrounding us in our bioregion....

(2) All levels 16 and older
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Summer Succulent Container Workshop

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

Succulent containers are trendy gardens to be enjoyed from spring through fall. Study design examples and then create your own take-home container. Learn how to care for your container, and how to extend it into the following year. Please bring gloves, an apron if desired, and pruning shears.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Common Plant Diseases in the Landscape

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

The first step in any disease-management program is proper identification of the problem. Learn to identify both infectious and non-infectious diseases that attack many landscape plants. Through a lecture and Garden walk, explore several disease problem and discuss control options. Dress for the weather.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Carex and Companion Plants

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

Carex (sedges) are grass-like, underutilized, ecological power plants. They are highly versatile ground cover plants with fine and coarse textures. There is a Carex for every landscape—shady or sunny, dry to wet, even under trees. You will learn the significance of their aesthetics and ecological contributions. Carex have evolved to live with other plants, providing all-season color and texture as surrounding flowering plants bloom and fade. Discover...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Autumn Containers at the Garden

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

Take a walk to view the Garden’s fall containers. Then create a cool-season mixed container with a variety of plants suitable for a full-sun or partial-shade location. Your container may include annuals, perennials, herbs, decorative foliage, cool-season vegetables, ornamental grasses, a decorative vine, and gourds. Dress for the weather, and bring gloves if desired.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Pruning for Professionals

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

Master the art of pruning and elevate your landscaping skills with this immersive course at one of Chicago's finest botanical gardens. Learn essential techniques, explore the proper care of tools and equipment, and gain valuable hands-on experience in the field. Prepare to take your professional pruning expertise to the next level.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Aquaponics

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL

Participants will learn the fundamental principles of aquaponics production, as well as tips and tricks for building an at-home or small-scale aquaponics system. This course will include hands-on work with the nursery system and the 52,000-gallon aquaponics production system.

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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Winter Containers at the Garden

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

Discover the secret to extending the beauty of your garden into the winter season. Join us as we explore creative ways to transform your containers with fresh-cut evergreen boughs and vibrant branches, creating a stunning display that will brighten up even the coldest of days. Don't forget to bring your gloves and pruners for this hands-on experience.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Create an Air Plant Terrarium

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

Learn the secrets of creating stunning air plant terrariums in this hands-on workshop at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Discover expert tips and techniques as you design a unique terrarium using air plants, stone, and moss. Bring nature indoors with this beautiful work of art that will enhance any space.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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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.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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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.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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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.

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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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...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Shelter

Chicago Botanic Garden

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...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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