2013 Gardening and Horticulture Classes
Learn from the experts through lectures, demonstrations, on-site garden visits and hands-on activities. The Arboretum gardening and horticulture classes offer rich opportunities for lifelong learning on a full range of topics. Whether a beginner, enthusiast or an industry professional, Arboretum gardening classes fit your needs.

GARDENING CLASSES

Productive Vegetable Garden Methods (150-05-25-13)
Saturday, May 25, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
$40 member/$55 non-member, Intermediate-Advanced, Lecture, Limit 40, Snyder Building

Take your vegetable gardening to a higher level with vegetable fanatic Larry Cipolla. Take some of your favorites-from pole beans to pumpkins-and learn how to incorporate some new varieties-from eggplant to broccoli, and maximize all of them with techniques designed to get the most out of your vegetable gardening space. Learn the what, where, when, and how about advanced vegetable gardening. Find out which varieties will best fit your appetite and your garden site from an expert vegetable gardener.

Creative Container Gardening (150-06-01-13)
Saturday, June 1, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
$40 member/$55 non-member, All Levels, Lecture / Demo, Limit 40, Learning Center

Create colorful designs by breaking from convention and make
unexpected combinations of color, texture, height, form,seasonalinterest, and color progression for your containers. Through lecture and demonstrations, you will learn skills to apply immediately at home. Expert gardener Larry Cipolla has developed outstanding techniques of bringing interesting plant combinations into a container for seasons full of beauty...and even flavor!

The Prairie Garden: To Explore and to Bring Home (150-08-03-13)
Saturday, August 3, 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
$40 member/$55 non-member, All Levels, Lecture / Demo, Limit 40, Learning Center

Enter a part of the Minnesota landscape's past and learn how to bring a little of it into your own landscape with renowned horticulturalist Julia Bohnen. You'll first gain grounding in what native species work well for her own garden and how to use them as features of your own garden. Then head out to The Bennett-Johnson Prairie where you'll see plants which existed on the tall grass prairies of central Minnesota before the days of settlement. This south-facing slope contains many plants including Indian grass, big and little bluestem, goldenrod, heliopsis, asters and golden Alexander, and more. Take home a native plant for your own garden.