NCYGS Events
2024 National Children & Youth Garden Symposium
Uniting youth garden educators from across the country to network, engage, collaborate, and learn from like-minded peers
Read More »Lifelong Learning: Sustainable Gardens in a Changing Climate: Adapting Practices for Resilience (Virtual)
With Angelica Patterson, an environmental educator, plant ecophysiologist, and science communicator, who is known as “The Shotgun Scientist” for her work in studying how trees respond to climate change.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Ecological Horticultural Techniques (Virtual)
With Anna Fialkoff, the Arboretum Horticulturist at Connecticut College, where she supervises the management of the 750-acre Arboretum, including a 30-acre native plant collection.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Plant-Based Cosmetics (Alexandria, VA)
With Paris-trained Elodie Cally, a botanical skincare formulator who established Elodie’s Naturals in response to the unregulated US beauty market she encountered in 2016 as a soon-to-be mother.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Benefits of Native Grasses (Virtual)
With Dr. Mary H. Meyer, a Horticultural Sciences professor emerita at the University of Minnesota.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Designing Meadows and Naturalized Landscapes (Virtual)
With Kathy Connolly, a landscape designer who specializes in naturalized designs, low-impact landscape techniques, and native plants.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Private Maryland Gardens (Glen Echo, MD)
Join renowned horticulturists and landscape designers for tours of their home gardens!
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Foggy Bottom – A Garden to Share with Adrian Bloom (Virtual)
An inspirational guide to understanding plants and gardens, the book and talk are based on Bloom’s experience in creating his own spectacular six-acre garden, Foggy Bottom.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (Columbus, OH)
AHS Reciprocal Garden tour will show highlights of the Ornamental Grasses Collection, the Daylilies Collection, and the Community Garden. This program is only open to AHS members; for additional information and to register, please log into your AHS account.
View event website »Lifelong Learning: Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Washington Park Arboretum (Seattle, WA)
AHS Reciprocal Garden tour will show highlights of the Pacific Connections Collections and the Rhododendron Glen. This program is only open to AHS members; for additional information and to register, please log into your AHS account.
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