New York Botanical Garden
Deepen your relationship with the natural world by taking classes at the New York Botanical Garden. From Floral Design to Gardening, Landscape Design, Botanical Art, and more, explore hundreds of classes to educate, inspire, and guide you.
Accessibility Considerations for Therapeutic Horticulture Programming
Evaluate tools, equipment, structures, spaces, and techniques used by participants in therapeutic horticulture activities. Explore universal design principles and how to incorporate them into programming, activities, garden design, and tools to meet the widest range of people's needs. Design and construct a kit of adaptive tools and assistive devices ...Accessibility Considerations for Therapeutic Horticulture Programming
Evaluate tools, equipment, structures, spaces, and techniques used by participants in therapeutic horticulture activities. Explore universal design principles and how to incorporate them into programming, activities, garden design, and tools to meet the widest range of people's needs. Design and construct a kit of adaptive tools and assistive devices ...Achieving Realism with Colored Pencil
With work in over 25 museum and university collections in addition to four solo shows in New York City, David Morrison is lauded for his hyper-realistic drawings, rich in tonal detail. In this special in-person workshop, Morrison will show you how to create an underdrawing with colored pencils, then use layer upon layer of colored pencils to build maximum ...Advanced Field Sketching
Take your naturalist game up another level by moving beyond sketchbook drawings to create an accordion book-or small series of artworks-inspired by your favorite observations of NYBG. Working with shadows and light, you'll explore color in a variety of media as you practice how to accurately capture unique detailing of your subjects. Previous drawing ...
Advanced Watercolor Techniques
How do we show those fine hairs on a kiwi, that mottled pattern on a pear, or the juxtaposition of the hard exterior of a pomegranate with the softness of its seeds? Texture and pattern fall into an area of watercolor rendering that requires special know-how. In this three-day course, you'll learn to observe and plan your approach, how light and shade ...Amphibians of the Northeast
Discover the fascinating traits that most frogs, toads, and salamanders share-such as having thin, smooth skins through which they can breathe-as well as what makes them unique. You'll pick up tips to identify local species by sight and/or sound and use case studies to learn more about their life history, ecology, and conservation.Ancient and Venerable Trees
Join ecologist Michael Gaige as he demonstrates how to identify old and ancient trees, both in Eastern woodlands and across the globe. He will discuss the factors that allow them to grow for centuries and illustrate how the advanced age, texture, and structure make these trees able to support a wide variety of woodland denizens. You'll gain a new ...
Annual and Perennial Garden Maintenance
Manage annual and perennial gardens with a variety of practices: soil and weed management, watering, pest identification and control, and seasonal clean-up. Develop a management plan for a small perennial garden.Annual and Perennial Garden Maintenance
Manage annual and perennial gardens with a variety of practices: soil and weed management, watering, pest identification and control, and seasonal clean-up. Develop a management plan for a small perennial garden.Autumn Mushrooms
In NYC, fall is the best time to hunt for edible fungi. Paul Sadowski, 25-year veteran of the NY Mycological Society, will lead a mushroom hunt, and show you how to identify many species and their look-alikes, where to find them, and how to cook or preserve them.