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Join Dan Jaffe to learn about the best native plant materials available today for use in the design and landscape trades. Covering everything from plants for tough spots to specialty plants for specific habitats, this class will add a host of less familiar native species to your plant palette.
Do you feel inspired when you visit the Garden or when you see plants in the field? This course will allow you to capture those experiences. Whether you’re interested in observational plant portraits or looser landscape impressions, this course offers several techniques for achieving your desired style. We will start with several short exercises and […]
Shrubs vary widely in size, shape, color, bark, flower, and fruit. This course will introduce you to almost fifty species of native New England shrubs, emphasizing plant identification, family characteristics, and historical plant uses. Bring a hand lens. Weekend sessions are held in off-site locations; directions will be provided during the first class.
Small garden spaces often present the designer with the challenge of how to realize big ideas in tight quarters. Yet small sites don’t mean the garden must lack interest. This hands-on design workshop will tackle the garden as a composition by exploring enclosed space, lighting, plant characteristics, and personal expression. We will visit Cambridge gardens […]
Join us as we explore vernal pools. These mysterious springtime pools often come and go without much notice, but they are an important habitat for many creatures. Come learn why vernal pools are so special and why some animals' lives depend on them. We’ll venture out into the woods to examine a vernal pool firsthand, […]
Among our most beloved wildflowers, trilliums trace their lineage back 60 million years to the great temperate forests that once circled the globe, and these photogenic woodlanders possess a certain refinement and unhurried approach to life that can only come with age. Of the 48 species in the world, a full 75 percent occur only […]
In 2013 the Garden’s Trillium Collection was recognized as a Nationally Accredited Plant Collection by the American Public Gardens Association’s Plant Collections Network. This year, please join us in celebrating the beauty and variety of trilliums during a week-long affair at Garden in the Woods. Take a Trillium Tour with our horticultural experts; join us […]
The annual Placemakers Lecture highlights individuals and organizations that have gone above and beyond to reimagine and reinvent public spaces as public gardens and parks. This year we are showcasing the Friends of the Rail Park, a nonprofit organization working to repurpose a three-mile former rail line as public open space running through the heart […]
Come to this fun-filled, family-friendly day to celebrate native trees. There will be children’s activities and games, interactive art projects, guided tours, tree-climbing demonstrations, an arborist truck on display, workshops on planting and pruning trees, and a native plant sale. We will give away 500 trees, including one for every visitor who joins us for […]
New to the world of native plants? There’s no better way to study our regional flora than in the field. In this class, we will learn to identify New England’s native flora by studying their habitats at Garden in the Woods. We will examine family characteristics, growth patterns, and key identification features of flowers, leaves, […]
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