Upcoming Classes, Green Spring Gardens

Green Spring Gardens is one of our favorite places for gardening classes of all kinds. Here are a few that are coming up in the next few weeks, but I encourage you to bookmark their education page to keep an eye on what’s coming up!

9/8/2012, Flourishing, Flowering Salvias
Location:  Green Spring Gardens Park
Start Time/Day:  9:30am Sat

Make room in your garden for those eye-popping, traffic stopping fall blooming salvias. This genus includes plants with fragrant leaves, culinary uses and flowers that attract hummingbirds. Nancy Olney, staff horticulturist, shows you her favorites in the garden and shares propagation and growing tips. Take home a sample of a hardy salvia for your own garden.

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9/14/2012, Basic Gardening: Grow Great Grub
Location:  Green Spring Gardens Park
Start Time/Day:  1:30pm Fri

Planting a fall vegetable garden will extend the gardening season so you can continue to harvest fresh produce. Many cool-season vegetables, such as carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts, produce their best flavor and quality when they mature during cool weather. Master Gardeners show you how.

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9/29/2012, Invasive Plant ID and Native Alternative
Location:  Green Spring Gardens Park
Start Time/Day:  9am Sat

Its time to remove those invasive plants and plant native plants we can all enjoy, but first you need to know how to ID them. In this workshop Kristen Sinclair and Brenda Skarphol, curatorial horticulturist, focus on invasive plant identification both in the classroom and the field and provide native alternatives to plant instead. Identifications materials included.

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10/5/2012, Basic Gardening:Put the Garden to Bed
Location:  Green Spring Gardens Park
Start Time/Day:  1:30pm Fri

Its fall again! Time to enjoy the break from the summer heat and head back into the garden for some end-of-season maintenance. There is plenty to do before Old Man Winter arrives. Master Gardeners share suggestions for ensuring that your plants are well prepared for the cold weather ahead.

For more information, visit Green Spring Gardens website.