Classes by Type

Gardening Basics

  • Latin Lingo for the Home Gardener
  • Spring Flowering Trees for Your Landscape
  • Containers Galore
  • Plant a Container
  • Pruning Small Trees

Lectures

  • Designing Gardens in California
  • Adventures in Horticulture! The Trowels and Tribulations of an Island Garden

Certificate Courses

  • Botany I
  • Deciduous Flowering Shrubs

Short Courses, Workshops and Garden Walks

  • Orchid Repotting Workshop
  • Plant Propagaion in the Water Garden
  • Tai Chi Introduction
  • Orchids for Beginners
  • Trough Planting
  • Specialty Nurseries Tour
  • Rose Lore and More

Professional Courses

  • Turf for the Professional
  • Weed ID Walk
  • Pest Identification Walk
  • Plant Disease Identification Walk

Botanical Art

Floral Design Classes

  • Pennock Company Tour
  • Spring Fling Ikebana
  • Floral Design Certificate Exam
  • French Florals
  • A Perfect Tea–Flowers and Finishing Touches

Orchids for Beginners

May 12

Do you love the elegance and beauty of orchids, but are afraid to grow them? This workshop will introduce the popular genera of orchids and highlight those best-suited for home and greenhouse growing.


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Containers Galore!

June 2

Ideas, color and creativity abound in this smorgasbord of sessions about containers. Choose from 5 sessions, or attend them all! Learn how to make great containers on the cheap, work with luscious colors, textures and vines, create water containers for a small space and explore the intricacies of trough gardening.


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