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Storytime at the Gardens
| Join us with your preschooler for a story at the Gardens! Meet us in the Southern Living Garden. This program is designed to promote a love of reading, creativity, and nature, all while gaining the benefits of visiting the Gardens and being outdoors. Register Become a member Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar OutlookContinue Reading ...
Planting, Transplanting, and Re-potting Trees and Shrubs
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Spring may be the default season when it comes to planting or gardening, but autumn is ideal for trees and shrubs. The combination of cooler temperatures and fall rain allows trees to establish their roots before the stress of summer. However, improper planting is theContinue Reading ...
Printing with the Sun
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Join Birmingham-based interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator Sam Roberts for an experimental exploration of solar printing processes. In this informative and creative workshop, you will be introduced to cyanotypes and anthotypes, which are images created by natural chemical reactions when exposed to sunlight. Participants willContinue Reading ...
Carnivorous Plants of the Southeast: Pitcher Plants
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Did you know that Alabama has more species of pitcher plants than the entirety of North America? Found in the bogs, wetlands, and pine savannas of the southeastern U.S., these carnivorous plants are not only botanical curiosities, they are vital components of their ecosystems. InContinue Reading ...
Storytime at the Gardens
| Join us with your preschooler for a story at the Gardens! Meet us in the Southern Living Garden. This program is designed to promote a love of reading, creativity, and nature, all while gaining the benefits of visiting the Gardens and being outdoors. Register Become a member Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar OutlookContinue Reading ...
Fall Community Harvest
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Join us in the vegetable garden for our end-of-the-summer community harvest. Harvest time in the Gardens is the perfect time to get your hands dirty and experience the joy of being in a vegetable garden. Specialty Garden Horticulturist Katelyn Bahr will teach you how toContinue Reading ...
Taming the Potted Beast: The Strange and Sensational History of the Not-So-Humble Houseplant
Join us for our “Thyme to Read” book club, a monthly gathering hosted by the Library at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
The Shady World of Bryophytes
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Easily overlooked due to their size, bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) play a critical role in ecosystems and serve as indicators of environmental conditions such as air and soil quality. Curtis Hansen, plant collections manager at the Auburn University Museum of Natural History, returns toContinue Reading ...
Storytime at the Gardens
| Join us with your preschooler for a story at the Gardens! Meet us in the Southern Living Garden. This program is designed to promote a love of reading, creativity, and nature, all while gaining the benefits of visiting the Gardens and being outdoors. Register Become a member Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar OutlookContinue Reading ...
Fall Birding in the Gardens
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Fall is an excellent time for bird watching in the Gardens! Southbound migrants and early winter arrivals alike are readily observed as they partake of the feast of nature’s bounty. You are invited to spend the morning with current secretary and long-time member of theContinue Reading ...
Garden Pop-Up
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Join us in our newly planted Garden Lab where your little ones can explore and learn within the wonderful world of gardening and nature through play and creative, hands-on activities. Space is limited to ensure a small playgroup. Location: Outdoor Classroom | For children agesContinue Reading ...
An Afternoon In Toshinan
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | A form of hospitality and warmth towards guests and strangers, Chado or “The Way of Tea” is an integral part of Japanese culture, centered on the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha. This fall the Gardens extends a rare invitation to visit our Toshinan, oneContinue Reading ...
An Afternoon In Toshinan
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | A form of hospitality and warmth towards guests and strangers, Chado or “The Way of Tea” is an integral part of Japanese culture, centered on the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha. This fall the Gardens extends a rare invitation to visit our Toshinan, oneContinue Reading ...
Seed Collection & Processing
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } Native Propagation Master Series | Join Keith Turney, senior horticulturist of the Kaul Wildflower Garden, for a weekly three-part master series devoted to the propagation of native plants. Classes are designed for the avid gardener, horticulturist, or conservationist who would like to increase their skill inContinue Reading ...
Storytime at the Gardens
| Join us with your preschooler for a story at the Gardens! Meet us in the Southern Living Garden. This program is designed to promote a love of reading, creativity, and nature, all while gaining the benefits of visiting the Gardens and being outdoors. Register Become a member Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar OutlookContinue Reading ...
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