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  • Mondays, July 19 – August 2, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Color Theory for Floral Design, Online

    Colors—like flowers themselves—evoke feeling and sentiment, and set the mood. Explore the role of color in floral design using a spectrum of flowers. This online New York Botanical Garden three part online course gives you a solid grounding in color theory, while highlighting the latest hues and color combinations.

    Materials: Students will be expected to purchase flowers before each class based on the instructor’s color guidelines. Registrants will be emailed a week before the class begins. This course requires the purchase of additional materials. Please refer to the Materials List when registering for more information.

    $215 fee. Register HERE.

  • Thursday, July 8, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm – Antique Roses and Ferns: A Modern Take, Online

    Take creative inspiration from 19th- and 20th-century English gardens blooming with delicate roses such as Amnesia, Quicksand, and Early Grey. Step-by-step, learn easy techniques for crafting an opulent tabletop from a bygone era. Our choice of container-faux mercury glass-footed compote bowls and fern-covered glass hurricane vases-is the key element that turns Victorian style into modern design. Students will source flowers per instructor guidelines. This online New York Botanical Garden class is taught by Trish O’Sullivan on Thursday, July 8, from 10 – 12:30, and is $85. For containers, use everything & any object as long as it is holds water with an opening between 4” to 6” wide for centerpiece and a variety of smaller containers with 2” to 3” opening. Family heirlooms, teapots, cups, glassware and garden tools like a watering can and flowerpots are a perfect setting for garden roses. Check out TrishOSullivanDesign.com for great ideas in repurposed containers. Floral material, to be acquired in advance by students and not included in fee, are 15-20 garden roses in 3 different shades of the same color palette (monochromatic). 10-15 stems of Boston fern or designer’s choice of fern, ivy or vine material , and dried plumosa in a shade to compliment roses. You will also need a roll of clear 1/2″ florist tape or any strong tape, floral clippers, a knife, and scissors. Register by clicking HERE

  • Sunday, May 23, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Lush Peonies, Online

    Sunday, May 23, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Lush Peonies, Online

    Choosing the right spot to plant your peonies is key to growing large, sumptuous blooms with little to no maintenance. Get tips for planting, cultivating, and propagating this springtime showstopper from Dan Furman of Cricket Hill Garden, affectionately known as Peony Heaven. After hearing tales of the cultivation history of the various types of peonies in the U.S., Japan, and China, you will take a virtual tour of Cricket Hill’s Peony Collection with over 100 mature specimens. This New York Botanical Garden session will take place online on May 23 from 10 – 1, and is $59. Register HERE.

  • Fridays, May 21 – June 4, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Urban Flora: Growing Between the Cracks, Online

    Urban flora can be found growing in unlikely places, from city sidewalks and highway medians to lawns, and other man-made structures. Most of these plants are introduced and many are considered weeds. We will hear more about their origins, life cycles, and benefits to the urban landscape while learning how to identify them in the field. This New York Botanical Garden online series of lectures will take place Fridays, May 21 – June 4, and is taught by Nancy Slowik. A dedicated naturalist for over 40 years, Nancy Slowik is the former director of Greenbrook Sanctuary, co-founder of the Greenbelt Native Plant Center, and author of two books on local flora. Currently, she consults with Restore Native Plants to provide guidance for a native plant propagation facility and restoration facility in Ramapo Mountain Park Preserve. $139. Register HERE.

  • Tuesday, May 4, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Food Legacy in the Atlantic World, Online

    Much of Professor Judith Carney’s groundbreaking research focuses on African contributions to New World agriculture and ecology. In this May 4 New York Botanical Garden talk at 11 am online, she shows how enslaved people established familiar foods from Africa, such as rice, okra, yams, black-eyed peas, and millet, as staples in their subsistence plots, what Carney calls the “botanical gardens of the dispossessed.”

    A professor of geography at UCLA, Judith Carney, Ph.D., conducts research in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America that examines gender, food systems, and agroecological change, as well as African contributions to New World environmental history. She is the author of numerous research articles and two award-winning books, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas and In the Shadow of Slavery.

    $18. Register HERE.

  • Thursday, April 1, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – The Tokachi Millennium Forest, Online

    Thursday, April 1, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – The Tokachi Millennium Forest, Online

    The Tokachi Millennium Forest on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, is an ecological project with a 1,000-year sustainable vision. Celebrated landscape designer Dan Pearson contributed to the master plan with a sweeping Meadow Garden mixing colorful ornamentals with natives, and a wavelike Earth Garden echoing the mountains beyond. Under the skillful custodianship of head gardener Midori Shintani, Tokachi has evolved to reflect principles at the heart of Japanese culture: observation of seasonal changes, practical tasks performed with care, and the interconnectedness of all living things. Using breathtaking images from their new book, Tokachi Millennium Forest, Pearson and Shintani reveal this remarkable project that bridges East and West and embodies naturalistic gardening at its most inspiring. This New York Botanical Garden online lecture will take place April 1 at 10 am.

    Dan Pearson is renowned worldwide as a designer, horticulturist, and gardener. His many accolades include Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and five award-winning Chelsea Flower Show gardens, including a 2015 Gold Medal and Best in Show.

    Midori Shintani trained in horticulture and landscape architecture at Minami Kyushu University. Since 2008 she has been head gardener of Tokachi Millennium Forest, merging “new Japanese horticulture” into wild nature.

    $18. Register HERE. Registered students will receive login instructions.

  • Tuesday, March 23, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Cultivating Diversity from Seed to Table, Online

    Tuesday, March 23, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Cultivating Diversity from Seed to Table, Online

    Three prominent experts come together fwith the New York Botanical Garden on March 23 at 11 am for a lively exchange celebrating the ways in which chefs, artists, and plant breeders can promote diversity in the plants that we eat. The conversation is inspired by the luminous paintings of heirloom edibles and their wild relatives in Abundant Future: Cultivating Diversity in Garden, Farm, and Field – the Fourth NYBG Triennial exhibition with the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA).

    Dan Barber, chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, is on a mission to reimagine food from the ground up.He discusses his work with plant breeders like Michael Mazourek to pursue new varieties of vegetables and grains with jaw-dropping deliciousness.

    Plant breeder and Cornell professor Michael Mazourek discusses how the relationship between people and the crops we cultivate has changed over time-from our ancient ancestors who domesticated wild plants to modern plant breeders who cross-pollinate crops in the quest to promote resilience and genetic diversity.

    World-renowned botanical artist and ASBA Director of Exhibitions Carol Woodin shares the fascinating stories behind some of the edible plants featured in the Abundant Future exhibition, such as the revived ‘Edinburgh Potato’ painted in exquisite detail by the late Lizzie Sanders, and Akiko Enokido’s sumptuous ‘Shishigatani Pumpkin’.

    $18. Register HERE.

  • Thursday, March 25, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Larry Weaner: Music Composition and Landscape Design, Online

    For landscape designer and composer Larry Weaner, garden design and music composition have much in common. While one may be visual and the other sonic, both look to explore freedom of expression within formal constraints. Both are endlessly engaging pursuits, where no matter how much you know, there is always more to discover. Working with plants—like playing jazz—is a give and take, a call and response, where every action stimulates a reaction—with sometimes unexpected consequences. Weaner believes that understanding the principles and techniques of composition can help designers create “musical” landscapes that can evoke powerfully direct emotional responses, reveal themselves gracefully over time and the seasons, and incorporate elements of improvisation.

    Larry Weaner is a leading figure in North American landscape design and restoration. His award-winning work has been profiled in The New York Times, Garden Design, and Landscape Architecture Magazine, among other publications. His Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change received the 2017 Book Award from the American Horticultural Society.

    Available CEUs include: APLD and LA CES. To register, visit www.nybg.org.
    This New York Botanical Garden lecture on March 25 from 11 – 12 is funded in part by the Barbara Cushing Paley Fund. Live captioning will be provided.

  • Saturday, March 20, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm – Dauntless Dahlias

    Low-maintenance dahlias thrive in our coastal climate. When they bloom in mid-July, their spiky, colorful blossoms brighten up gardens and flower beds across the city. Learn best practices from expert Frances Palmer that will help your dahlias flourish, including how and when to disbud, stake, water, and much more. This New York Botanical Garden session will be held on March 20 from 11 – 1, and is $55 for NYBG members, $59 for nonmembers. Register HERE

  • Thursday, February 25, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Leslie Bennett: Gardens of Sanctuary, Online

    Founder and owner of Pine House Edible Gardens, Leslie Bennett designs, builds, and maintains edible and culturally resonant landscapes that are beautiful and productive. The gardens she creates provide visual, physical, and cultural inspiration-along with nourishing organic harvests of food, flowers and medicinal herbs. With degrees from Harvard, Columbia Law School, and University College London in the fields of environmental law,cultural property, and social justice, Bennett brings a rare and important perspective to her landscape designs and her business practices. One effort of Pine House Edible Gardens is the Oakland, CA-based Black Sanctuary Gardens project, founded by Bennett in 2018, which actively works to create garden spaces of refuge and beauty in collaboration with Black women and communities.

    Recently, Leslie Bennett received the American Horticultural Society’s 2020 Great American Gardeners Landscape Design Award. She is co-author of The Beautiful Edible Garden, and has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, Martha Stewart Living, and Garden Design. Joining Bennett in conversation will be Jennifer Jewell, creator and host of the award-winning public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place.

    This February 25 online program is sponsored by the New York Botanical Garden as part of its Winter Lecture Series, and begins at 11 am Eastern time. To register, or for more information, visit www.nybg.org.