Apr 29

Plant sale: Herbs Galore at Maymont (Richmond, VA)

Find everything you need to spice up your garden at Richmond’s favorite plant sale, Herbs Galore! Bring a roomy wagon to carry home the bounty of herbs, annuals, perennials, vegetables, and even trees, plus garden accessories and garden-inspired goodies from dozens of nurseries and specialty vendors. Enjoy a day spread out on the Carriage House Lawn, browsing the wares of more than 60 vendors for rare or popular plants and unique gift items, many featuring ginger, the 2023 Herb of the Year!

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Apr 22

Outdoor Adventures Family Program: Celebrate the Earth (Montclair, NJ)

Join the Montclair Foundation in the gardens as you and your family explore and learn about the outdoor world through crafts, scavenger hunts, activity sheets and displays. Each program will focus on a specific theme, and our Van Vleck Education team will guide your family through this interactive learning experience. Registration is required and includes everything you need to participate in the program. Designed for children ages 4 -11 but all are welcome.

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Apr 20

Private Trip: Learning From Great Gardens “Woodland Retreat” (Wilmington, DE)

Join the Delaware Center for Horticulture and Linda Eirhart at her private garden this spring. Linda and her husband bought their ¾ acre wooded lot in 1998 and had their home built. While the lot came with many wonderful trees they had to remove a number of invasives like Japanese honeysuckle, multiflora rose, Russian olive, and poison ivy. Tulip poplars, sassafras, white pine, oaks, black gum, American holly and dogwood are just some of the existing trees that form the bones of garden. Some of the trees and shrubs that were added over the years are Halesia, Styrax, Amelanchier, Magnolia, and Aesculus.

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Apr 04

Seasonal Garden Tour at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden (Richmond, VA)

Enhance your understanding and appreciation of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden with this specialized garden tour featuring seasonal aspects of the collection. Come dressed for the weather and touring the Garden.

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Apr 01

Class: Proper Tree Planting & Pruning in the Urban Landscape at Adkins Arboretum (Ridgely, MD)

Learn basic tree biology, how trees react to pruning cuts, and how to properly plant and prune small trees and shrubs to achieve desired results. This session with Terry Bohner and Garrett Dickel of Bartlett Tree in Stevensville will also cover risk-assessment techniques used to evaluate tree health and potential safety concerns. Held by Adkins Arboretum.

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Mar 16

Exhibition: Pittsburgh Botanic Garden to display Watercolor Works (Pittsburgh, PA)h,

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden announces that Watercolor Works from the Garden will open March 16 in its Welcome Center. This exhibition is the culmination of a 2-year collaborative project between the Garden and the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society and features the works of 22 artists, all members of Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, using various styles and techniques in water-based media.

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May 06

Ladew Topiary Gardens 2023 Garden Festival (Monkton, MD)

Now in its 15th year, Ladew’s annual Garden Festival has become the most anticipated specialty plant, garden ornaments, and antiques sale in the region. Shop from over 30 exclusive collection of vendors from across the eastern seaboard offering hard to find perennials, specialty annuals, unique small trees, unusual exotics, container specialties, decorative garden furniture, urns, and architectural treasures.

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Feb 17 to Apr 30

“Discover the World of Orchids” exhibit at U.S. Botanic Garden (Washington, DC)

The 27th annual joint orchid exhibit between the United States Botanic Garden (USBG) and Smithsonian Gardens is “Discover the World of Orchids,” on display in the USBG Conservatory from February 17 through April 30, 2023. The exhibit shares stories of the diversity of orchids and how technology advances their conservation.

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Mar 09

Virtual Class by New Directions in The American Landscape: Every Garden is an Intervention – Rejecting the Eco-Purity Pledge and Embracing Compromise to Foster Resilience

Every garden, no matter how small, is a human intervention in an ecological system. The more we understand that system, the more effectively we can balance ecological resilience with human functional needs and garden design principles. We will review case studies of landscape projects in suburban Boston and Cambridge, MA, alongside systems theory, to explore how to create beautiful, ecologically vibrant gardens on small-scale residential properties. Held by New Directions in the American Landscape.

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