Basic Residential Landscape Design
This comprehensive course enables you to thoughtfully and responsibly plan a landscape enhancing the architecture of your home and reflecting your personality. Learn the basics of site and structure then […]
Embracing Companion Planting
Growing vegetables sustainably can be achieved by embracing companion planting. Learn how to grow more in a smaller space while managing disease and insect pressures. Discover how pairing some plants […]
Cutting Gardens: Bed Prep & Planting
Step into the colorful realm of a cutting garden with Conner Parrish from Blossoming Roots Farm and Supply! This exciting course will guide you through the art of preparing your […]
A Salute to Southern Blue Flag
Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow, traveled between heaven and earth on a celestial curve of color, delivering messages from the Gods to their mortal subjects below. (She is […]
Cultivating a Cut Flower Garden
There is nothing more rewarding than planning and planting your own garden, and enjoying beautiful blooms that you harvest all season long! Whether you have a big backyard, a tiny […]
Orchid Care for Beginners
Owning an orchid is an exercise in obedience. Both delicate and demanding, these exotic beauties with their elusive blooms are very particular about light, temperature, humidity, growing medium and even […]
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Introduces Three New Adult Learning Categories
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s Adult Learning Program has introduced three new categories of classes and tours: Botany & Ecology; Beekeeping, Birding & Bugs; and Plant Play Make & Take Workshops. […]
Virginia’s Native Winterberry
Nature tosses a spray of scarlet orbs into the lackluster landscape this time of year, decorating the bare branches of Winterberry holly with much needed nourishment for local wildlife. Winterberry […]
10 Ways to Reuse or Recycle Christmas Trees
The presents are all opened, and the holidays will soon draw to a close. But the evergreen in your living room still has a lot to give. Here are some […]
The Legends and Lore Behind Holiday Greenery
The holly, mistletoe, poinsettias and pine we decorate with this time of year have their own backstories that tell of mythical beginnings and magical powers. We have been bringing evergreens […]