Conservation Gardening 101: Landscaping with Native Plants (Hybrid Edition)

 

The registration period has closed for this event.

 

Dates and Times:

• This series will be a hybrid of pre-recorded content and in-garden sessions. Online material will be periodically released beginning Monday, August 15, two weeks before the first in-garden session.
• A virtual meet and greet with the instructors will take place via Zoom meeting from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. on Monday, August 22. An access link and passcode for this meeting will be sent a few days in advance.
• In-garden sessions will take place on Mondays, August 29, September 12 and September 26 from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. The first two sessions (8/29 and 9/12) will meet at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. The last session (9/26) will meet on UNC's campus at the Coker Arboretum.
• In the event of inclement weather, makeup sessions may be scheduled for Mondays, September 19 and October 3

 

Fee: $225 ($202 Members)

 

Conservation Gardening 101: Landscaping with Native Plants is a certificate series designed to provide home gardeners and emerging landscape professionals with foundational concepts of landscape design, native species selection, implementation and maintenance of compellingly beautiful and ecologically productive native plant gardens based on conservation principles. 

 

This blended program (featuring online and in-garden components) will cover six conservation gardening topics through online pre-recorded lectures, three outdoor instructor-led classes at the Garden, and a variety of other resource materials shared with participants. Two in-garden classes will take place in the NCBG display gardens and a third will meet at the Coker Arboretum. Each session will cover two conservation gardening topics. Two topics of pre-recorded lectures will be provided to participants every two weeks, allowing ample time for self-paced review and digestion prior to each class meeting. Participants who attend all three Garden classes and show evidence of watching all lecture content (e.g. successful completion of a final quiz) will receive a Certificate of Participation from the Garden. 

 

Conservation gardening topics included in this series are Landscape Design Principles, Native Plant Selection - Perennials, Native Plant Selection – Shrubs and Trees, Weeding, Mulching, and Seasonal Maintenance, Landscape Installation, and Pruning and Long-Term Maintenance of Woody Plants.

 

Click here to view the course descriptions for the Conservation Gardening 101 series.

 

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The classes in this series must be taken as scheduled and cannot be exchanged for other classes or other class dates. Any and all changes made after enrollment will be subject to our cancellation policy.