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Learn the secrets to successful urban gardening in Chicago with classes on container gardening, rooftop gardening, and sustainable gardening practices.

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Principles of Garden Design

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

Learn how to apply your design skills to create stunning garden spaces. Discover the spatial properties of landscape materials and how they can enhance your concept plans and construction-level drawings. Take your design knowledge to the next level with this professional course.

(122) All levels 18 and older
$619

8 sessions

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Spring Containers at the Garden

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

Get inspired by the Chicago Botanic Garden's stunning spring containers and learn how to create your own for a full-sun or partial-shade location. Discover the best plants that can withstand varying spring temperatures, including pansies and forced bulbs. Don't forget to dress appropriately and bring gloves if needed!

(122) All levels 18 and older

Soil Basics

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

Enhance your gardening skills by understanding the vital role of soil. Discover the secrets to maintaining healthy soil and learn how water cycles affect plants. Get your garden soil professionally analyzed for optimal growth.

(122) Beginner 18 and older
$374

7 sessions

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Summer Containers at the Garden

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

Discover the art of creating vibrant and thriving summer containers designed for both sunlit and shaded spaces. Immerse yourself in a guided tour of stunning garden displays before harnessing your own creativity to assemble a warm-season mixed container. Unleash your green thumb and craft a beautiful masterpiece of annuals, perennials, herbs, and decorative foliage. Don't forget to bring gloves!

(122) All levels 18 and older

Beginner Bird Walk

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

Join us on an evening bird walk through the display gardens as we search for songbirds, waterfowl, and raptors.  No prior bird-watching experience is required, and binoculars are recommended but not necessary! 

(122) Beginner 18 and older

How to Divide Perennials

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

Learn the secrets to multiplying your garden's beauty with expert tips on dividing perennials. Join us at the renowned Chicago Botanic Garden for a hands-on workshop that will teach you how to spread the wealth of your perennials throughout your garden. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your gardening skills and create a stunning landscape.

(122) All levels 18 and older

Introduction to Bird-Watching

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

Explore the fascinating world of bird-watching in the beautiful setting of Chicago. Learn the fundamentals of bird identification and observation techniques in this immersive class at the renowned Chicago Botanic Garden. Join us for an unforgettable bird-watching experience and discover the diverse avian species that call this area home.

(122) Beginner 18 and older

Glorious Ground Covers

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

Uncover the beauty of low-growing plants that create a stunning foundation for landscapes. Delve into the world of ground covers that offer both aesthetics and ecological benefits, with their ability to provide food, shelter, and gorgeous textures. Join us for a guided walk amidst nature's finest offerings.

(122) All levels 18 and older

Pollinator Container Workshop

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

Discover the art of creating vibrant, pollinator-friendly containers with a variety of beautiful annuals at the prestigious Chicago Botanic Garden. Enhance your home's landscape and invitingly welcome pollinators with colorful blooms all season long. Don't forget your gloves!

(122) All levels 18 and older

Salsa Container Garden Workshop

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

Why buy jarred salsa when you can grow and make your own? Plant a container of miniature tomatoes, yellow and red peppers, and onions and give “made from scratch” a whole new meaning. It doesn’t take much space to grow fresh ingredients for a spicy and tasty salsa.  All materials included.

(122) All levels 18 and older

The Elegant Edible Garden

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

Uncover the art of blending functionality with elegance in your vegetable garden design. Explore innovative techniques for integrating vegetables and herbs into ornamental landscapes. Join us for a stroll through the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden to gather further inspiration.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to Grading and Drainage

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

Apply knowledge and skills developed in previous design courses to basic grading and drainage concepts as they relate to design. Acquire a critical understanding of key earth forms and drainage patterns in residential landscapes through active discussions and hands-on projects.  Prerequisites:  Graphics Introduction to Professional Practice  Principles of Garden Design

(122) All levels 18 and older
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$749

10 sessions

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Healthcare Garden Design

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

This eight-day program includes case studies, group projects, field trips, lectures, and instruction from experts from healthcare garden-related professions. Working in multidisciplinary teams that reflect the real world of healthcare garden design, your learning will be reinforced through tours of healthcare facilities in the Chicago area. Registration includes eight-day program fees, course materials, seminar program, transportation to field sites,...

(122) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$2,995

8 sessions

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Aquaponics 3 Day Intensive

Chicago Botanic Garden @ 3555 Ogden Ave, Chicago, IL

This course is for individuals seriously considering or already in the process of aquaponic food production on a commercial scale. This course is a comprehensive look at the design and build-out of a system, water quality, controlled-environment growing, daily operations, and growing techniques. Instruction will include hands-on work and lectures. This is a certificate course. Aquaponics Three-Day Intensive Course Sample Agenda Day One Meet...

(122) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$795

4 sessions

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Herb Gardens

Evanston Art Center @ 1717 Central St, Evanston, IL

Join Lake Forest Flowers' Eileen Weber, AAF for a hands-on floral workshop. Learn growing techniques of popular and unique cooking herbs and create a living garden of assorted herb plants for your patio to take home. Soil, container, and all plant material included. We will be working with soil; bring gloves if you prefer.

(83) All levels 18 and older
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Edible Wild Plants Certificate Course

The Resiliency Institute @ 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville, IL

Learn over 200 edible wild plants that grow in our bioregion through classroom, field and home study, but most importantly by eating or preparing recipes with them every class! You will receive an Edible Wild Plants Recipe book containing all of the recipes prepared by the instructor and students throughout the course and a printed certificate recognizing your accomplishment. There are so many reasons to learn how to identify edible wild...

(2) All levels 16 and older
No upcoming schedules
$860

10 sessions

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Garden Design Studio

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

Learn the theory, methods, and critical skills needed to master garden design in this interactive course. Discover the design process, graphics, research, and more while developing your analytical abilities through collaboration with peers and instructors. A supply list will be provided.

(122) Advanced 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$749

8 sessions

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Gardening Techniques: Session C

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

Professional Gardener Level 1 Certificate, Professional Gardener Level 2 Certificate, and Garden Design Certificate Learn tips and techniques used by professional gardeners through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Acquire solid gardening skills, learn a variety of techniques, and determine best management practices in the field of horticulture. Gain applicable skills in plant selection, spring assessment and planning, spring...

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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$374

12 sessions

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Four Seasons of Beauty: Garden Container Series

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

This series of workshops and Garden walks features the diversity and creativity of four seasons of Chicago Botanic Garden container gardens. Each season you will explore the Garden grounds with Heather Sherwood and discover an array of striking plants, interesting color and texture combinations, and unique container arrangements. She will then help you create a seasonal container for your sun or partial shade patio or porch.

(122) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$320
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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.

(122) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$312

6 sessions

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