Horticultural Happenings (Regional) Events
Growing Waterwise at CalBG: All About Seed Saving (Claremont, CA)
Join the California Botanic Garden to learn how to collect, clean, store, and germinate seeds from your garden. With the guidance of Cheryl Birker, Seed Conservation Program Manager at CalBG, feel prepared to carry your abundant garden this year into the next, and for many more to come. (Sunday July 2, 10-11 a.m.)
View event website »Growing Waterwise at CalBG: Habitat Gardening for Butterflies (Claremont, CA)
Join the California Botanic Garden on Saturday, June 17 at 8:30 am as Ashlee Armstrong, Assistant Director of Horticulture at CalBG, walks us through gardening for butterflies! Gain insight into how to best use California native plants in your garden to support butterfly populations, and more.
View event website »Botany Panel Discussion: The Superbloom Era (Virtual)
Join the California Botanic Garden for a virtual panel discussion on California’s extraordinary wildflowers, and how we can protect and conserve them.
View event website »New York Botanical Garden – African American Garden: The Caribbean Experience (Bronx, NY)
Curated by Jessica B. Harris, Ph.D., America’s leading scholar of the foods of the African Diaspora, the newly reimagined African American Garden: The Caribbean Experience at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) highlights the plants and gardening histories that are essential contributions to Afro-Caribbean foodways, including those that are have been brought to the United States by Caribbean immigrants. On view June 17 through November 1, 2023.
View event website »Native Plant Trust Virtual Symposium: Exploring the Social History of the Outdoors (Virtual)
Native Plant Trust, the nation’s first plant conservation organization and the only one solely focused on New England’s native plants, will present a virtual spring symposium on June 21 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. focusing on aspects of the social history of natural spaces, from nature appreciation and inspiration to notions of territory, access, and participation.
View event website »The Garden Conservancy Open Days Garden: Garden du Buis (Pottersville, NJ)
F2 Environmental Design & AJF Design invite you to tour Jardin de Buis, their fabulous estate in Pottersville, NJ, for this wonderful Garden Conservancy Open Day. Saturday, June 17, 2023. 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Pre-registration required.
View event website »Columbus African Violet Society Annual Show and Sale (Columbus, OH)
The Columbus African Violet Society will be hosting its annual show and sale of African violets and gesneriads. “Culinary Violets: What’s in Your Pot?” is the theme for this year’s show. The show will be held at Beechwold Christian Church in Columbus, OH on Friday, October 13, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 14, 10:00 a.m. -4:00 p.m. The event is free.
View event website »Lecture, Lunch, and Tour with Janwillem Jansens (Santa Fe, NM)
Please join for the last day of our anniversary events (June 17, 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.) for an insightful lecture on the Piñon-Juniper Woodlands by ecological restoration specialist & owner of Ecotone Landscape Planning, Jan-Willem Jansens.
View event website »Santa Fe Botanical Garden: 10th Anniversary Reception on Museum Hill (Santa Fe, NM)
Come celebrate with us at our 10th Anniversary Reception on June 16, 4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.! Our theme for the year is “Growing Traditions: Celebrating a Decade on Museum Hill,” and there is much to celebrate!
View event website »Piñon Country: Illuminating the Interdependence of Life in the Iconic Woodlands of the West (Santa Fe, NM)
Piñon Country: Illuminating the Interdependence of Life in the Iconic Woodlands of the West is an educational and photographic exhibit that shares the value and beauty of piñon-juniper landscapes. The exhibit hosts 23 image panels with descriptive captions nestled throughout the Santa Fe Botanical Garden’s pathways! April 26-Nov 26.
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