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Learn how to create a thriving urban garden in the heart of NYC, with classes on rooftop gardening, container gardening, and sustainable gardening techniques. Discover how to grow your own organic vegetables and herbs, even in limited spaces.

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Native Gardening Intensive

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the secrets to creating a flourishing native garden with the Native Gardening Intensive at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Learn the principles and practices needed to cultivate a vibrant oasis teeming with life. Uncover the ideal conditions for native plants to thrive and bring the beauty of nature to your garden.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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$153
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Kitchen Botany for the Apartment Gardener

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

You eat plants every day, but do you ever stop to consider the botany on your plate? We’ll examine various culinary plants up close and learn how the botanical function of different plant parts relate to their gastronomic appeal. The workshop includes a hands-on lab and planting your own kitchen botany window box. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo ID to the security desk at the 1000 Washington Avenue entrance, and...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to Organic Vegetable Gardening

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Get a crash course in vegetable gardening! Use your own space as a model to plan, choose seeds, grow seedlings, plant and transplant, water, weed, use organic pest control, and harvest. Take home seedlings to get started or to add to your garden. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo ID to the security desk at the 1000 Washington Avenue entrance, and you will be directed to your classroom. In advance of class, show...

(165) Beginner 18 and older
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Planting for a Spring Harvest

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Jump start your vegetable garden with varieties that will give you a delicious harvest in a matter of weeks! In this workshop we will explore vegetable varieties that can be planted in the early spring and practice transplanting and direct seeding spring crops in the Children's Garden. Participants will take home seeds and transplants ideal for a spring planting. Notes: Please note that this class meets in person at BBG. Instructions on how to...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Soil Building & Potting

Tula, Plants & Design @ 59 Meserole Ave., New York, NY

Join us for a Soil Building and Potting workshop. This is a hands-on class where we will learn the foundation of soil structures and which soil you should be planting your green friend into. We’ll then put our knowledge to the test and pot a new plant. You’ll choose from a selection of 4″ plants, build it’s new soil and pot into a 4″ Buff Clay terra cotta planter. Growing healthy plants begins with understanding soil structures to maintain...

(2) All levels 18 and older
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Winter Tree Identification

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Tree identification without the assistance of leaves is a hugely rewarding process. Though many imagine winter identification to be more difficult than during the growing season, in fact, we find far more consistency among twig and bud characteristics of the same tree species than we do for leaves. More than just winter identification alone, this course will train you to look beyond eye-catching leaves in order to learn more about using less-appreciated...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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DIY Terrariums: The Lucky Gardener

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Join us for a creative and informative workshop where we discuss what makes a healthy terrarium, the different types of terrariums, all about each layer, and how to miniscape it. Everyone leaves with their own Lucky Gardener terrarium, including an organic wood and glass vessel, all the necessary terrarium layers, and embellishments such as black lichen, reindeer moss, lichen branch, and cute terrarium dwellers.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Grow a Culinary Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn how to grow the many edible plants that thrive in the average Brooklyn garden, from food that grows on trees to root crops. Take a tour of BBG’s many edible plants, and then make a pack of seed bombs filled with easy-to-grow seeds to take home. Note: Please bring a confirmation for Garden admission. The Security Guard in the lobby of the Administration Bldg. at 1000 Washington Avenue will direct you to your classroom.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Seed Starting Annual Vegetables and Flowers

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Starting your own vegetables from seed can be joyful, exciting, and perhaps even life-changing! In this hands-on workshop, learn the basic steps of seed starting and seedling nurturing, practicing with vegetable and flower seeds. Explore seed-starting materials and structures, as well as seedling care, including fertilization, irrigation, and transitioning seedlings for planting out. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Winter Sustainable Floral Design

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Arranging colorful flowers calms the mind and feeds the soul. Working with locally grown flowers helps us connect with time and place, and brings joy and beauty into the home. Join sustainable floral designer Molly Culver of Molly Oliver Flowers for a hands-on workshop. You’ll learn how to source locally grown flowers around NYC, basic flower care, and expert tips on how to make a beautiful centerpiece for your home table using sustainable techniques. ...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Botany 101: Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants—BLENDED

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn about how different plant groups evolved to look the way they do and how to distinguish between them. You'll engage in active observation through drawing and photographing plants. After learning about the major plant lineages, we'll examine living specimens to help improve plant identification skills. Expect to leave class with an improved ability to identify and ask useful questions about the plants you encounter. No drawing skill necessary....

(165) All levels 18 and older
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$96

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Wrapping Up Outside and Moving Inside

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Join horticulturist Jim Russell in this monthly series examining all aspects of gardening-by example-within the various gardens of the school. Learn about garden design principles; discuss plant choices and maintenance needs; and learn about pruning techniques. This class explores the outdoors, so dress appropriately.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Edible and Medicinal Native Plants of the Northeast

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn how the indigenous peoples of the Northeast prepared food and remedies from dozens of native plants that we will identify in the newly expanded Native Flora Garden. Our region is rich in little-known edible and medicinal plants, from woodland spices such as wild ginger to wetland plants like pickerel weed and wapato.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Houseplants 101: Choose the Perfect Plant

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This class will help you find plants that love exactly the amount of light, humidity, and other conditions your indoor space has to offer. Selecting the right plant means the difference between something that looks gorgeous and is easy to take care of and a sad-looking specimen that leaves you wondering what you did wrong!

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Foraging for Wild Edible Plants

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn how to safely identify, sustainably harvest, and deliciously prepare the feast growing at your doorstep with ethnobotanist Leda Meredith, author of Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Plants from Beach Plums to Wineberries. The Northeast is rich in wild edible plants, even in the city. On this foraging foray, we'll find native delicacies such as pokeweed and ramps growing right next to introduced invasive (but still delicious) species,...

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Conifer Bonsai Styling

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the artistic and horticultural thought process for selecting a bonsai design and the various techniques involved in achieving design concepts such as branch manipulation and foliage arrangement to transform raw, unstyled trees into quality bonsai. Notes: Bring small pruners or surgical shears, or purchase shears in class.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Tropical Bonsai

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn about the care and training of tropical trees as bonsai. A tropical tree will be shaped to demonstrate techniques and care. Notes: Bring small pruners or surgical shears, or purchase shears in class.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Fall Bonsai Seminar: Pine Bonsai

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Various techniques for different species of pine trees will be detailed using one of the school's 70- to 200-year-old bonsai. The class will discuss pine bonsai refinement, emphasizing energy balance and branch alignment.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Urban Shade Garden Design

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

New York City gardens are often sited between buildings and near trees, with a variety of light and soil conditions. Learn what plants will do well in your shady space and how to care for them. Get ideas, design inspiration, and tips for growing colorful and lush plants in shady urban gardens, both in the ground and in containers.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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