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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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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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The Organic Vegetable Garden in Autumn

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

The end of summer doesn’t mean the end of home-grown vegetables. Discuss and practice how to get the most out of the growing season by adding cool-season vegetables to your fall garden. Learn about variety selection, mulching, and extending the season.  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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Beekeeping: Seasonal Management: Fall

Chicago Botanic Garden

Learn how to prep your bees and make sure they are ready for the long winter ahead. Queen management, feeding, pest control, and when to combine hives will be covered. 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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Maintaining A Perennial Garden

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Maximizing the appeal and longevity of perennial plantings requires more work than simply watering and weeding. You will closely examine the best practices for preparing garden beds, plant selection, staking, deadheading, division, and fall clean-up. This class will be taught online via Zoom. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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Bonsai Design: Online

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

There are many different types and styles of bonsai design. Learn about your tree’s “attitude,” its tension or balance, the ins and outs of negative space, and traditional versus natural styles. 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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Marvelous Mints

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online class about herbal remedies is a virtual experience you can take anywhere!  New! The mint family contains some of our most popular garden plants and can be used in key herbal remedies. With more than 6,000 different species, this plant family has an impressive presence in our daily lives. Move beyond peppermint and lavender as we get to know some of our native wild mint family herbs, their unique personalities,...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Edible Containers

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

This Chicago Botanic Garden online gardening class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! With the increasing interest in growing your own food in the home garden, don’t neglect the value and potential of containers for growing a wide range of our favorite fruits, vegetables, and herbs on our decks, patios, and balconies. The basics of container gardening, selection, preparation, and care will be covered. This class will be taught online...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Tropicals for Your Garden: Online

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Discover a world of popular tropical plants that grow quickly and make a dramatic statement in your garden in one season. Learn about care and tips for success, along with identifying some plants that are useful in tough spots where more traditional annuals might struggle. Discuss plants that are great in patio containers and also ones worth using in the landscape for seasonal interest. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Wedding Flowers 101: Online

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Know someone planning a wedding? Flowers can break a couple's budget, unless you know the tricks of the trade. Learn how to plan your budget, how to save money by choosing the right flowers, where to learn more about flowers, what to try doing yourself, and what is best left to the pros. Most couples are new brand at this—let us help you get it right! This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Gratitude Journaling

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Learn the basics of gratitude journaling as a tool to reflect on life’s blessings. After this introductory class focusing on context and fundamentals, you will be prepared to begin your journey of self-discovery via paper and pen. Please choose either the on-site or online class attendance option. The online class will be taught via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive...

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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Cottage Garden Designs

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Exuberant gardens overflowing with old-fashioned flowers come to mind when we think of cottage gardens. Shrub roses, foxgloves, poppies, forget-me-nots, hollyhocks, vegetables, and herbs all have a place.  Discover bed and border designs and plant combinations that can help you get the look of an English-style cottage garden. 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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Introduction to Native Plants

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Maybe you started with a coneflower or milkweed and now you are hooked on native plants. The internet and social media describe gardening with natives in broad strokes. This class will fill in details as you learn some basics concepts about native plants, as well as some misconceptions. We will also discuss the pollinators that benefit from our native gardens. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Going Native: Online

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Maybe you started with a coneflower or milkweed and now you are hooked on native plants. The internet and social media describe gardening with natives in broad strokes. This class will fill in details as you learn some basics concepts about native plants, as well as some misconceptions. We will also discuss the pollinators that benefit from our native gardens. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Bonsai: Seasonal Storage: Online

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

In this class, we will discuss the steps necessary to prepare your bonsai trees for the fall and winter seasons. Proper feeding, pruning, and winter storage options for both temperate and tropical bonsai will be covered. Have your bonsai trees ready for late summer to early fall work. 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...

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Ghoulish Plants in Folklore: Online

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Unearth the haunting tales behind mysterious plants from folklore and fairy tales in this captivating online course. Delve into the dark secrets of foxgloves, aconite, and other enchanting specimens. Join us for an immersive exploration of ghoulish plants that will leave you spellbound.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Indoor Herbs and Houseplants

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Discover the secrets to selecting and caring for a wide range of culinary herbs and houseplants that will add a touch of green to your home this winter. Join us for an online class where you'll learn essential tips and techniques from the experts at the renowned Chicago Botanic Garden. Don't miss this opportunity to bring nature indoors and create a vibrant and thriving indoor garden.

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Growing Salad Greens Indoors

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Discover the secrets to growing fresh salad greens all year round with the Chicago Botanic Garden's engaging online class. Learn about the essential tools, crop varieties, and techniques for successful indoor gardening. Don't miss out on this virtual green thumb experience!

(122) All levels 18 and older
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The Healing Garden

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

Our gardens can be designed and developed to become more sensory-based and restorative. All gardens have value in engaging the senses and allowing us to relax and recharge. Explore many exciting and immediate ways to create more dynamic spaces that maximize our personal health and learn some tips on gardening as we age. 

(122) All levels 18 and older
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Introduction to Design Principles

Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online garden design class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere!  This workshop introduces and reviews the landscape design process of site analysis, conceptual design, and evaluations, based on principles of balance, symmetry, proportion, scale, and unity.  Through plant combinations and landscape features, you will learn about color, texture, line, form, and methods of creating garden spaces. This...

(122) Beginner 18 and older
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