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  • Stop Motion Animation with LEGO® Pieces Summer Workshop: August – Adult/Child Session (ages 4 & up)

    1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    Lights, camera, action! Using the Garden as your backdrop, develop a story-line, create scenes and props using natural materials, and snap images of your LEGO minifigures as they complete an outdoor adventure. At the end of the session, participants will have digital access to their stop motion animation film to share with friends and family. […]

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  • Trees Themed Walk

    Themed Walk: Visiting Special Trees: August

    If our landmark trees could talk they would tell you many tales. Volunteer Garden Guides enjoy speaking for them about their bark, flowers, roots, and even knees. Tour lasts 1.5 hours and visits many parts of the site including some areas of uneven ground. Online registration for this program is closed.  Walk ins are welcomed […]

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    $17
  • Grasses sedges and reeds around lake

    Grasses, Sedges, Rushes

    Identification of grasses, sedges, and rushes is often perceived as one of the most difficult activities in the realm of botany.  This is due to many factors, the most prominent of which are that grasses, sedges, and rushes (i.e., “the graminoids”) are usually small, narrow-leaved plants with unassuming, diminutive flowers – and they all look […]

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    $128 – $152

  • Stop Motion Animation with LEGO® Pieces Summer Camp – August Session – Ages – 9 – 12

    1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

    Lights, camera, action! Using the Garden as your backdrop, develop a story-line, create scenes and props using natural materials, and snap images of your minifigures as they complete an outdoor adventure. At the end of the sessions, participants will have digital access to their LEGO® stop motion animation film to share with friends and family. […]

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  • Making Paper Making Books Class

    Making Paper, Making Books

    Create a small stitched book or journal using paper made in class, purchased elsewhere, or with the plant images made in “Nature Prints” (see above).  Paper made in this class is more suitable for journaling or writing, though some decorative pieces can be included, and even purchased handmade paper.  Various materials for stitching and book […]

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    $150 – $202

  • “Date” Night: Making Mosaics with LEGO® Pieces: August

    Enjoy wine and cheese with your spouse, partner, BFF, or roommate as you make a botanically-themed mosaic with LEGO bricks.  Work with Richmond artist Brian Korte as he discusses his process for creating large-scale Lego art, then design and create your own personal memento to take home.  In conjunction with the Brickworkz exhibit of Lego […]

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  • Yoga in the Rose Garden

    Thursday Yoga in the Garden: August-September Session

    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, […]

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    $75 – $147
  • Yoga in the Garden Lewis Ginter

    Evening Yoga in the Garden: August-September Session

    Learn yoga’s calming rhythms of breathing, movement, and posture during this evening offering 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 […]

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    $75 – $153
  • From Bicycle Club to Botanical Garden Guided Tour

    From Bicycle Club to Botanical Garden – Saturday Guided Tour

    Find out how the beauty of today’s botanical garden began in the bicycle craze of the 1890’s. Your experienced Guide will share seasonal highlights and let you see why the Travel Channel calls this one of the “Best Botanical Gardens in the U.S.” Registration not required; first come, first served.  Included with regular admission.

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