Pruning 101 (Des Moines)
Come to the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden for a pruning workshop. https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/event/pruning-101/
Come to the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden for a pruning workshop. https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/event/pruning-101/
Come to the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden for the Annual Symposium. https://49857.blackbaudhosting.com/49857/Annual-Symposium-The-Gardening-Adventure
Come to the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden to learn about tool maintenance: https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/event/tool-maintenance-and-winterization/
Come to the Annual Symposium at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden on October 22nd. Learn more here: https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/events-programs/calendar-events/229-annual-symposium/
The Spring Garden Festival is the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden's signature opportunity to celebrate gardening in Iowa. This four-day, pop-up retail festival includes nearly 500 limited edition varieties of plants, garden art and merchandise plus educational sessions and family-friendly garden activities.
https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/events-programs/calendar-events/431-spring-garden-festival/
The annual symposium is the Botanical Garden’s signature educational opportunity for advancing gardening in Iowa. Each fall, four internationally acclaimed lecturers visit Des Moines to speak about current topics that impact home horticulture, plant sciences and/or ecology.
This year’s symposium theme is The Resilient Garden. Discover multi-layered, colorful and resilient gardens, from a rural presidential estate to the Brooklyn Bridge, that will inspire you to balance biodiversity with beauty in your own garden.
https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/event/annual-symposium-the-resilient-garden/
Are you an aspiring orchid grower? This beginner’s workshop will familiarize you with the orchid family and teach you how to maintain and propagate healthy plants. You will receive your own orchid to start your collection.
https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/event/orchids-for-beginners-2/
Spend a fall morning on the prairie at Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt learning about prairie plants and harvesting seeds along the way. This hike is suitable for all ages but will include walking off-trail on uneven ground. Participants should wear long pants and close-toed shoes. Transportation is not provided. Seeds collected on this hike will be used for a follow-up class, Prairie Seed Stratification, on Wednesday, Nov. 6. Participants need not attend both events.
https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/event/seed-collecting-hike-2/
Learn about the processes scientists and gardeners use to help harvested seeds germinate in the spring. Learn how to stratify native Iowa prairie seeds through hands-on demonstrations and take home seeds to plant next spring. This class will utilize seeds collected during our Seed Collecting Hike at Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt on Saturday, Nov. 2. Participants need not attend both events.
https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/event/prairie-seed-stratification/
Identify your landscape goals, determine the “why” behind your vision and learn how to bring your dream to life while making your yard more functional, manageable and sustainable. Through lecture, discussion and case studies, Landscape Architect Lynn Kuhn will help you identify what type of yard you want and how to best achieve it. Class fee includes both sessions.
https://www.dmbotanicalgarden.com/event/landscape-with-intention/2019-11-12/