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Learn how to create and maintain a beautiful garden from the comfort of your own home with online gardening classes covering topics such as organic gardening, container gardening, and landscape design.

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Growing Orchids Indoors

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Discover the secrets to successfully cultivating beautiful orchids in the comfort of your own home. This online course covers everything from choosing the right orchids for your environment to maintaining their health and avoiding common beginner mistakes. Perfect for beginners and experienced growers alike.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Natural History of Roses

Chicago Botanic Garden

Dive into the history of roses from antiquity to today. Explore the long history of cultivation, native species, traditional uses, and how best incorporate them into your landscape. Find out just how resilient a rose can be!

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Shade-Loving Native Plants

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Do you wonder what to grow in the shaded parts of your yard? Learn to address the challenge, from identifying the degrees of shade you have to selecting the best native plants for those conditions.  Discover a variety of colorful perennials, durable shrubs, and small flowering trees that will bring those shaded spots out of the shadows and into the limelight.  This class will be taught online via Zoom. Registered students will receive login...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Best New Annuals of 2023

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Seasonal plantings can offer significant interest in our beds, borders, and containers. The contributions of flowers, colorful foliage, fragrance, pollinator value, and other merits should all be considered as we explore the vast availability at our area nurseries and greenhouses.  Discover a wide variety of eye-catching and beautiful new annuals to consider for your garden. Learn some tips for the best care of these amazing plants.  This...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Best Wildflowers for Home Gardens

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online class about wildflower gardening is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Some of the most beautiful, ecologically important, and easy-to-grow early bloomers are native wildflowers. Their intricacies and unique characteristics nurture our collective landscapes and provide critical sustenance early in the season for pollinators and birds. Learn about the spring wildflowers that are best suited for home...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Trends in Herbaceous Perennials

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Perennials continue to be extremely popular in our gardens for their contributions of color, texture, form, and so much more. Examine current trends in the development and breeding of perennials.  You will discover a wide range of settings for herbaceous plantings and we will zero in on some of the most durable perennials on the market for the myriad of potential uses in our landscapes. This class will be taught online via Zoom. Registered students...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Small Space Garden Design

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Develop a repertoire of tools that enable you to evaluate and implement strategies to maximize the potential of garden spaces with small footprints, including condominiums, townhomes, and apartments. You will learn how to approach basic garden design and layout, plant selection, and everyday maintenance concerns for small sites.  This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Container Gardening with Native Plants

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Many native plants make great choices for container gardens because they are adapted to the local growing conditions. From shade to sun and short to tall, there are plenty of plants that will create a small, wildlife-friendly oasis on your patio, balcony, or porch from spring through fall! The School’s CEUs=2 hours OPC elective This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts....

(122) All levels 18 and older
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The Fragrant Garden

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Imagine wonderful scents in your garden from spring into autumn, provided by aromatic flowers and fragrant foliage. By selecting from a wide range of trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and annuals, you can achieve the sweet smell of success in your garden! This focused addition of fragrance in the garden can be both enjoyable and therapeutic. The School’s CEUs=2 hours OPC elective This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Perennial Bed Design for Shade

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Discover a palette of shade-loving perennials to brighten and enhance low-light garden areas. You will learn to create colorful and harmonious combinations using a wide range of plants that thrive in shady spaces. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.  

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Native Plant Landscape Design

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online landscape design class with native plants is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Native plants offer a wide range of benefits in our landscapes including wide adaptability, hardiness, and value for pollinators and other wildlife. Using the incredible array of native trees, shrubs, and perennials will result in a beautiful, resilient, and dynamic landscape.  Registered students will receive login...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Spring Clean-up: A Bug-eyed View

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Discover the secrets to a successful spring garden clean-up while creating a welcoming habitat for beneficial insects and wildlife, with expert advice from the Chicago Botanic Garden.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Best New Annuals of 2024

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Discover a stunning selection of eye-catching and beautiful new annuals, and learn how to incorporate them into your garden space. Join us at the Chicago Botanic Garden for an in-depth exploration of the best new plantings for 2024. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your garden with vibrant flowers, colorful foliage, and more.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Pruning Principles

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Learn the essential principles of pruning to ensure healthy plants in this online course. Discover proper tool use, techniques for trees and shrubs, and optimal pruning times for both evergreen and deciduous plants. Join us to explore the world of pruning and enhance your gardening skills.

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

After this class, you’ll never again wonder whether you watered too much or too little, when to repot a plant into a bigger container, or about any other fundamental questions of indoor plant care. Bring your suffering houseplant—after a lecture on plant care basics, join a Q&A on what may be ailing your houseplant and what to do about it. Notes: You will be emailed the Zoom link for this class.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Great Native Plants for Containers

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Learn which native plants are the best choices to plant successfully in containers, and what conditions they need. Invite butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, and other beneficial insects into your yard, patio, deck, or balcony with the great native plants that support them. With native container gardening you can grow beautiful and ecologically beneficial plants in any outdoor space. Notes: You will be emailed the Zoom link for this class.

(165) All levels 18 and older
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Juniper Bonsai Workshop

Chicago Botanic Garden

Juniper bonsai require unique care including soil type, feeding, pruning, and wiring. Learn the seasonal work and general care for one of the most common bonsai species used.  Note: All registrations must be submitted online 2 days before your class starts. This class will be taught online via Zoom.  Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Intro to Mushroom Identification: Online

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

Explore the basics of mushroom identification.  Become more familiar with the different groups of mushrooms and the basic characteristics including cap, gill and stipe features.  This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance. 

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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The Organic Vegetable Garden in Summer

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

Through classroom discussion and outdoor activities, learn about heat-loving vegetables and herbs to grow in your summer garden. Related topics include direct sowing, transplanting, sustainable watering techniques, and more.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Native Plants for Formal Gardens: Online

Chicago Botanic Garden

How do we incorporate native plants into more formal landscapes? Explore structural native plants for sun and shade that offer interesting architecture and distinctive flowers, while hosting a bevy of beneficial insects. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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