Mentors and students work on certificate projects together in an informal setting.  Open to BI certificate candidates only.

Container gardens help you maximize small spaces and they’re easy to maintain!  Garden designer Beth Burrell shows you how to plan your container garden, from soil mixes and planting techniques to design tips and succession planting for seasonal color.  She includes maintenance tips and plant suggestions.   

Garden Guide and hydrangea enthusiast Rich Waiton leads tours of the Garden's collections of these favorite summer shrubs.   Tours are timed throughout peak successive bloom time, so take more than one!

This course provides an in-depth overview of the tools and techniques used by botanists to identify plants to the species level, with a strong emphasis on family characteristics. Attendees are exposed to concepts in plant classification, nomenclature, habitat, distribution, and of course, vegetative and reproductive characteristics - all of which can be used to help identify […]

Learn yoga’s calming rhythms of breathing, movement, and posture in a tranquil Garden setting.  Small class sizes enable instructor Jacqueline Gooding to offer individual pointers and address multiple levels of experience.  Please bring a blanket, yoga mat, water and appropriate layered clothing for the season.  Classes take place in the Garden or inside Garden buildings, […]

Experience how honey bees gather nectar and pollen from the Garden’s flowers. We see beauty; they see lunch! Your Garden Guide will introduce you to some of the most popular “honey bee plants” and end your tour where the bees do at the Apiary (bee hives) installed in 2016. Gain a whole new understanding of […]

Learn tips and tricks for the many ways in which honey can be incorporated into your diet during a demonstration of delicious honey-infused recipes with Executive Chef Anne Maury Hapaala from the Garden’s Caterer, Meriwether-Godsey.  Fee includes a light lunch featuring demonstrated recipes.

While shandies and radlers (beer mixed with lemonade, fruit juice, or fizzy drinks) have been popular in Europe for years, they have recently gained popularity in the States, especially during the hot summer months.  Learn from a local mixologist how to create your own refreshing summer shandies using your favorite craft beer, fresh local produce […]