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A Beginner’s Guide to Creating A Flower Bed
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Filled with perennials, annuals, and blooming shrubs, a flower garden adds color and dimension to your landscape—and provides an inviting habitat for essential pollinators like birds and butterflies. But if your garden is covered in lawn, you might wonder how to start a flower garden.Continue Reading ...
Home Comfort Plant Pop Up Shop
Partnered with Datus Henry CBD Health and Wellness, the Home Comfort Plant Pop Up Shop provides house and garden plants to make your home comfortable. Care and wellness tips for plants and people are available so stop by and find your plant and personal care needs!
Getting To Know Tomatoes
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Learn the basics of tomato gardening with horticulturists Julia Adams and Katelyn Bahr. This informative class will explore how to select varieties, care for your plants, and troubleshoot threats like insects and diseases. Bring your questions and leave with your own tomato plant to startContinue Reading ...
Community Spring Planting
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Celebrate Earth Day at the Gardens by joining Specialty Garden Horticulturist Katelyn Bahr and fellow community members for the annual planting of the Bruno Vegetable Garden! We will prepare garden beds, plant tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and okra, and mulch with leaf litter. Location: Bruno VegetableContinue Reading ...
Birmingham Rose Show
Celebrate Beauty in Bloom at the Annual Birmingham Rose Show This Mother’s Day Weekend! The Birmingham Rose Society is thrilled to invite the community to its highly anticipated Annual Rose Show, held on Mother’s Day weekend, May 10–11, at the breathtaking Birmingham Botanical Gardens. This cherished event is one of the largest horticultural showcases inContinue Reading ...
Cut Flowers For Every Season
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | A cut flower garden has more seasons than just spring and summer. Blue Rooster Farms owners Allison and Kirk Creel grow blooming flowers for most of the year! Learn their tips for expanding the types and variety of flowers you grow and extending the seasonContinue Reading ...
Designing and Planting Your Raised Bed
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Victoria Crenshaw, an experienced organic vegetable gardener and owner of Fleurish Gardens, joins us in the Bruno Vegetable Garden to discuss the principles of raised bed gardening. In this class, she will guide you in creating a plan for your garden layout and teach youContinue Reading ...
Hydrangeas for a Southern Garden
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | David Doggett, advanced master gardener and current president of the Alabama Hydrangea Society, will introduce you to the defining characteristics and pros/cons of the five main classes of hydrangeas we typically see in Southern gardens. You will learn about the effects of climate change onContinue Reading ...
Creating a Moon Garden
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Alabama Advanced Master Gardener Dianna Fortner invites you to the enchanting world of nighttime gardening and outlines the process for creating a moon garden from plant selection to creating and executing a garden plan. Characterized by white flowers, silver foliage, and fragrant plants, moon gardensContinue Reading ...
Identifying and Eradicating Invasive Plants
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Chinese wisteria, English Ivy, periwinkle, nandina, and kudzu are only a few of the invasive, non-native plant species that threaten the Alabama landscape. Join Director of Land and Water Conservation for Jefferson County Greenways, Charles Yaeger to learn how to correctly identify invasive species andContinue Reading ...
Hostas, The Shade-Loving Perennial
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Are you searching for a plant that will produce beautiful blooms in shade? Hostas are very hardy perennials beloved for their lovely shades of green and chartreuse foliage, cascading form, and easy maintenance. Learn about this shade-loving perennial and how to use it in yourContinue Reading ...
Air Layering: Propagating Difficult-To-Root Plants
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Cuttings and other forms of propagation can fail for some plants, especially azaleas, rhododendrons, camellias, and other woody plants. Unlock the secret to an effective propagation method for difficult-to-root plants with Friends’ horticulturist Julia Adams. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn about the scienceContinue Reading ...
Companion Planting: Inviting Insects to Your Garden
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | Insects can be valuable additions to a garden, playing crucial roles in pollination, pest control, soil health, and a healthy ecosystem. Join Lee County Extension Agent Dani Carroll to learn about the importance of plant diversity and how to select appropriate pairings of flowers, vegetables,Continue Reading ...
Tomato Tasting In The Gardens
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | In this fun and informational sharing session, participants are invited to swap growing tips alongside Friends’ horticulturists, Julia Adams and Katelyn Bahr, who will address a variety of tomato growing conundrums. Participate in our second annual tomato tasting by bringing homegrown tomatoes to sample andContinue Reading ...
The Creation Of A Stumpery Garden
#image-595 + picture img { --focal-point: 50% 50%; } | In this inspiring class, members of the Birmingham Fern Society will demonstrate how they created “Living Roots,” a stumpery garden within the Birmingham Botanical Gardens Fern Glade. You will hear about the inspiration for the garden, the steps involved in its construction, and how toContinue Reading ...
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