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  • Tuesday, November 4, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Eastern – Walter Hood: Cultural Storytelling Through Design, Online

    MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant-winner Walter Hood creates green spaces that resonate with and enrich the lives of residents while also honoring communal histories. As founder and creative director of Oakland-based firm, Hood Design Studio, he has transformed a variety of areas—from the redesign of traffic islands, vacant lots, and freeway underpasses that challenge the legacy of neglect of urban neighborhoods to large-scale commemorative landscapes that reflect his firm’s interest in the role of sculpture in public space.

    As the third lecture in the New York Botanical Garden’s 27th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series, Hood will share projects that approach design through the lens of cultural storytelling and community engagement, including the highly-praised International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina—an impactful landscape that addresses memory, tragedy, and culture while paying homage to the local community and the African diaspora at large. Hood will also share insights into his firm’s upcoming redesign of the landscape surrounding Lincoln Center and Damrosch Park in NYC. This project aims to address the urban barrier created by the center’s construction in the 1960s—a project that displaced much of the San Juan Hill neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. Register for all three talks at www.nybg.org.

  • Friday, August 29 – Global Survey Deadline: Nurturing Nature Through Plant-Based Solutions for Long Term Climate Resilience

    In the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, the New York Botanical Garden is strengthening its commitment to plant-based climate solutions. Through its Nurturing Nature Initiative, NYBG is harnessing the unique power of botanical gardens to restore ecosystems, support communities, and protect biodiversity.

    Global Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JS6GNMN

    Nurturing Nature Initiative: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JS6GNMN

    With support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and in partnership with Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), NYBG’s Nurturing Nature Initiative is creating a science-based roadmap to advance climate resilience through plants. The initiative strengthens the role of botanical gardens as vital hubs for biodiversity, education, and community action. Working with BGCI and the Ecological Restoration Alliance of Botanic Gardens, the team will share knowledge, expand impact, and elevate the role of gardens in global restoration efforts.

    Botanical gardens hold rare plant collections, seed banks, and taxonomic expertise critical for restoration and climate adaptation. Yet they are often overlooked in climate strategies. Nurturing Nature aims to change that. With guidance from a global advisory group, NYBG and partners are developing an action plan to help gardens lead nature-based climate solutions—locally and globally.

  • Sunday, August 3, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon Eastern – All-Star Plants for Home Gardening, Online

    Whether you are just beginning your gardening journey or looking for expert advice on how to make your garden more robust, this New York Botanical Garden online class will provide a detailed overview of a variety of shrubs, perennials, and annuals that have been identified as winners in horticultural competitions. We’ll cover growth and maintenance tips so that you can make most of these plants in your home garden. The live session on August 3 at 10 – 12 Eastern is taught by Lorraine Ballato, and is $59 for NYBG members, $65 for nonmembers. Register at www.nybg.org.

  • Sundays, June 22 – August 10 (excluding July 6 & August 3), 4:00 pm – 6:40 pm Eastern – Plants for Gardens, Online

    Examine the use of plants in the garden, with an emphasis on choosing the right plant for the right place based on site-specific design and maintenance criteria in this New York Botanical Garden online live twelve session course with Daryl Beyers. Learn aspects of special garden values such as size, texture, color, as well as flowering and fruiting seasons. You’ll review trees, shrubs, groundcovers, annuals, and perennials suitable for gardens throughout the United States. The Sunday sessions begin June 22, from 4 – 6:40 pm.

    This course is an online equivalent of Plants for Landscaping specifically for students who are completing NYBG’s Gardening Certificate program or those taking classes leisurely. Please note, this class cannot be applied toward a Horticulture or Landscape Design Certificate. Members $423, nonmembers $470. To register and for complete schedule, visit www.nybg.org

  • Saturday, February 8, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern – All About Terrariums and Vivariums, Online

    Discover how to design your own terrarium or vivarium with Christopher Satch, plant scientist and award-winning exhibitor at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Through lecture and demonstration, he’ll discuss how to set up a simple, easy care terrarium, how to create an automated climate-controlled vivarium, and everything in between. This New York Botanical Garden online class on February 8 from 11 – 1 is $50 for NYBG members, $55 for nonmembers. Register at www.nybg.org

  • Tuesday, November 19, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Eastern – Lauren Stimson: On Wildness, Lost Landscapes, and Belonging, Online

    Lauren Stimson, FAAR, ASLA is a landscape architect and partner at STIMSON, an urban and rural landscape architecture studio, working farm and plant nursery located in Cambridge and Princeton, Massachusetts. STIMSON values longevity, sustainability, education, ecological fluency, community, slowness, and they believe that the process is just as important as the end project.

    Stimson will reveal her design thinking and planning approach as she shares projects including; the Artists’ Trail at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, which is home to to American impressionism, Northeast Harbor, a coastal garden on Mount Desert Island, Maine, that references historic landscapes as a basis for site restoration, Hardberger Park and Land Bridge, in San Antonio, Texas, a 300-acre public park celebrating urban ecology and pioneering large-scale green infrastructure, and Charbrook—a home, farm and studio for STIMSON, conceived as a landscape laboratory for their practice.

    This New York Botanical Garden webinar takes place Tuesday, November 19 at 6:30 pm Eastern. $35 for NYBG members, $39 for nonmembers. Register at www.nybg.org

  • Tuesday, October 15, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Eastern – Shannon Nichol: Forms, Weeds, and Real Life, Online

    As co-founder of Seattle-based landscape design firm GGN, Shannon Nichol is committed to specifying local native plant palettes through long-term and norm-breaking collaborations with local horticulturalists and landscape managers around the world. Stemming from a lifelong enthusiasm and amateur familiarity with her home region’s under-used native plants, Nichol has documented the successes and failures of incorporating native plantings into her own gardens over the last 15 years, a process that has heavily influenced her professional work and led to many creative explorations and friendships along the way.

    Hear from Nichol as she shares learnings and insight from projects including; Chicago’s Lurie Garden at Millenium Park, the Gates Foundation Campus in Seattle, and the Seattle Residence: Native Gardens. This New York Botanical Garden webinar will take place October 15 at 6:30 pm. NYBG members $35, nonmembers $39. Register at www.nybg.org

  • Saturdays, August 3 and August 10, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern – Make Ink, A Forager’s Guide, Online

    Gather plants and urban detritus (like rust!) from the surrounding landscape to make beautiful dyes-bright magenta pokeweed, dark black walnut, and rich purple wild grape. In the first online session, artist and founder of the Toronto Ink Company Jason Logan will teach you which organic and non-organic materials work best and where to look for them. In the second session, you’ll mix, test, and transform what you’ve foraged into rich, vibrant inks using simple household ingredients. Jason S. Logan is a Toronto-based creative director and strategic graphic designer. Recent projects include branding, identity and creative direction for Horses Atelier, a smell map for the The New York Times and Creative Direction for Rogers Publishing. Logan is also the author of several books and the founder of the Toronto Ink Company. In 2014 he led the CDTO campaign an initiative to build an Office of Creative Direction for the City of Toronto.

    Please note, this course requires the purchase of materials. Please refer to the Materials List linked on the registration page for more information. New York Botanic Garden members $90, nonmembers $100 for the two sessions, August 3 & 10 from 11 – 1.

  • Tuesday, March 26, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern – Spring Meadow Centerpiece, Online

    Celebrate the return of spring by creating a country meadow-inspired centerpiece bursting with field flowers, heirloom parrot tulips, mini daffodils, and fresh herbs. You’ll capture the essence of flower fields with a profusion of colors and textures as you craft this centerpiece in a wooden container. Learn the tips and tricks of the trade for keeping flowers looking fresh and long lasting without chemicals or floral foam. The class takes place on March 26 from 11 – 1 Eastern time. This New York Botanical Garden online course requires the additional purchase of materials. You will receive an email from the instructor, Trish O’Sullivan, with details on what to purchase one week prior to the class start date. NYBG members $125, nonmembers $135. Register at www.nybg.org

  • Thursday, January 4, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern – Introduction to Herbal Medicine, Online

    Are you interested in bringing the natural benefits of herbs and herbal remedies into your life? Discover the differences between herbal medicine and homeopathy, the three major branches of herbalism, and the fascinating history of herbal medicine. Learn how to choose and store herbs, how to properly take herbal medicines, and how to make and use several common herbal remedies that help reduce stress. This New York Botanical Garden online class with Karine Gordineer takes place Thursday, January 4 from 6 – 8 Eastern time.

    Karine Gordineer is a Master Herbalist, Certified Plant Spirit Healing Practitioner, Shamanic Practitioner, Certified Reiki Master/Teacher, and Educator with over 28 years-experience in herbalism and the healing arts. Her introduction into herbalism, shamanism and Earth healing practices began as she learned from her father, who was of Algonquin heritage and taught her the secrets of the medicinal plants and the healing ways of her ancestors. Both her matrilineal grandfather and great-grandfather were herbalists as well. Karine is the founder of Green Girl Herbs & Healing, an herbal remedy and healing company.

    $65 for NYBG members, $70 for nonmembers. Register HERE