American Conifer Society 2025 National Meeting (Rock Island, IL)

Santa Barbara International Orchid Show (Santa Barbara, CA)

Dive into a world of wonder at the 77th Annual Santa Barbara International Orchid Show, taking place March 7th to 9th, 2025. This year’s theme, Exotic Gardens, invites you to explore the vibrant beauty of orchids and their natural habitats.

GreenScapes Symposium (Wheaton, MD)

Join us for a fascinating day of presentations offering practical strategies to create sustainable and resilient landscapes. You’ll benefit from decision matrixes that help make informed plant selections and develop successful designs based on a range of environments, ecological benefits, and sustainability goals. Experts will present a range of native plant combinations and design layouts that manage water runoff, survive droughts, and support pollinators and wildlife. You’ll be surprised how climate change is dictating conservation efforts, its impact on native plant ecoregions and even its implications for expanding our plant palette.

Docent Training (Fort Bragg, CA)

Our annual Docent Training is just around the corner and we want you! We are looking for enthusiastic garden lovers who also love people and want to learn the art of leading tours for children and adults in the exploration and observation of one of our community’s greatest treasures, the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. If you appreciate the green earth and want to help people of all ages (especially the little ones) develop a deeper connection with the natural world and a genuine excitement for gardens, then we hope you will consider joining the MCBG Docent Team. Help us share our fascination with plant life with the curious public!

Dahlia Division (Fort Bragg, CA)

Learn to divide dahlias before they begin to sprout! In this workshop, we will discuss dahlia anatomy and the different types of dahlias before diving into the art of dahlia division. The class will wrap up with tips on storing tubers, tricks for overwintering, and a discussion on how to grow dahlias. You will take a tuber home, watch it grow, and then have the opportunity to practice all you have learned next winter as you get your hands dirty dividing dahlias.

Spring Garden Festival (Fort Myers, FL)

Join us for the biggest plant sale of the year! The festival will also feature food trucks and live music. Numerous garden vendors from around the state of Florida will have many types of plants and trees, including palms, fruit trees, bromeliads, hibiscus, butterfly plants, African violets, orchids, air plants, herbs, succulents, cacti and many hard-to-find species.

Mad Gardeners Symposium (Falls Village, CT)

Mad Gardeners, Inc. is an organization of professional horticulturists and serious home gardeners. The Corporation is formed for charitable, scientific, and education purposes, including to promote and foster the appreciation and understanding of horticulture, botany, and related environmental and ecological concerns; to conduct educational programs and forums; to promote public education, the development of students, and the improvement of professional skill in the field; to provide support to schools, arboreta and other organizations qualified under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and conduct any other activities and perform any and all acts which may be necessary, useful, suitable, or proper for the furtherance of the foregoing purposes.

Mosaic Basics with LeeAnn

This is a fun two-day class where you can make a beautiful mosaic pot to take home! All materials, including the 10 inch flowerpot, safety equipment and tools are provided. If you want to bring a dish or object from home to incorporate into your piece, please do!

Heirloom Seed Saving (Fort Bragg, CA)

Join Victory Gardens for Peace Seed Bank Director, Matt Drewno for a hands-on seed saving workshop. This intensive two-day workshop will focus on all the basics required to grow a wide variety of healthy garden seeds. We will cover planning, propagation, selecting, harvesting, and preserving common and endangered varieties. After completing the workshop you will have the resources, confidence, and support to take the next steps to become a better seed saver and an important part of our seed saving community.

The Fungi of the Gardens (Fort Bragg, CA)

Fungi inhabit every aspect of the world around us, from our bodies to the land around us. They make partnerships with organisms, parasitize others, and keep the forests from piling high with logs or other plant debris. On this walk, we will survey the Gardens’ grounds for fruiting bodies (mushrooms) and other fungal activity. In the case of mushrooms, we will cover edibility, toxicity, and medicinal uses all while trying to develop an eye for reading the landscape to where they might fruit.