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Green Spring Gardens 4603 Green Spring Road Alexandria, Virginia 22312 703-642-5173 ADULT PROGRAMS Registration and non-refundable prepayment to FCPA required for all programs. Call 703-642-5173, TTY 703-803-3354 for more information. Virginia’s Best Series: Gardening in Virginia Discover the best plants for gardens in Virginia with plant aficionado, Karen Rexrode. She introduces the best performing annuals, woody plants, and herbaceous perennials for our climate. Plant culture and garden maintenance are also covered. Highly recommend attending full series $52/three-part series or $18/session Hot Plants for the Cool Season Saturday, September 19, 9:30-11am. Make your fall garden more beautiful. Identify cool season garden plants and understand the cycles that drive growth and garden management. Garden’s Fall Colors Saturday, October 31, 9:30-11am. Color is key for a dramatic fall garden. Anticipate the stunning changes and envision how to use the season’s transformations to design spectacular combinations. Garden Clean-up Saturday, November 14, 9:30-11am. Learn simple and logical ways to manage fading garden beauties, while considering how to keep an attractive winter garden. Yoga for Gardeners Gentle Introduction to Vinyasa Yoga Mondays, 9:30-10:30am. Session 1: Mondays, 8/24, 8/31, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28 and 10/5 Session 2: Mondays, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16 and 11/23. A series of Yoga classes featuring the Vinyasa method to increase your strength, flexibility, and endurance necessary for gardening. $66/six-class session Floral Design Workshop Series Create beautiful floral designs to take home with you after Northern Virginia Community College instructor, Bruce Nash, demonstrates the dazzling possibilities. Floral material, greens and containers provided. $48/session November 21, 1:30-3pm: Thanksgiving Design December 5, 1:30-3pm: Winter Wreaths Basic Gardening Series Green Spring’s Master Gardeners share gardening tips, dazzle you with time-saving techniques, clarify simple steps and debunk horticulture myths. Sign up for the entire series or for individual workshops $44/4-part series or $12/session Friday, September 18, 1:30-2:30pm: Fall & Winter Interest Friday, October 2, 1:30-2:30pm: Growing More Than Grass Friday October 16, 1:30-2:30pm: Veggie Gardens: Planting for Fall and Preparing for Spring Friday, October 30, 1:30-2:30pm: Gardening for the Birds September Friday, September 11 Workshop: Casting Concrete Leaves 1–3pm. Capture the fleeting beauty of ornamental leaves by casting them in concrete to decorate your home or garden. Green Spring staff demonstrates the proper steps to make good leaf castings and assists participants in making one to take home. Materials provided. $55 Saturday, September 12 Saving Your Treasures - Tender Perennials 9:30-11 am. Tired of spending money on tender perennials that die when a frost hits the garden? Learn simple, successful propagation techniques from Green Spring horticulturalist, Nancy Olney and take home some of our treasures! Your new talent will save you money in spring! $22 Saturday, September 12 Ikebana Demonstration 12:30-1:30pm. Observe the artistry of Holley Green, Ikebana instructor, as she demonstrates techniques used to create unique Ikebana designs with lotus leaves and other garden flowers. Lotus leaves provided to take home. $18 Saturday, September 12 Rain Barrel Distribution and Instruction 1-3:30pm. Water running off your roof during a rainstorm can be a resource put to good use! Collecting rainwater can help you save water for use on your plants, eliminate potential flooding in your basement, and reduce storm water management costs. Sign up to purchase a rain barrel and instructions on how to use it. Registration required by 9/5. Visit http://www.arlingtonenvironment.org/barrel.htm for event registration. $62 Saturday, September 26 Lessons Learned in the Vegetable Garden 9:30-11am. Despite horrific weather fluctuations, weeds, bugs and unproductive plants, we have feasted on delicious, nutritious, homegrown goodies. Cindy Brown, Green Spring’s kitchen gardener, shares stories of the season’s successes and failures as chronicled this summer by Adrian Higgins in “All We Can Eat,” a Washington Post blog. $14 October Saturday, October 10 Native Walk with the Curator 9:30-11am. Curator, Brenda Skarphol provides an in-depth look at the native plant collection. Learn about Green Spring’s recent plant acquisitions and removals and what principles apply to your garden. Discover how to use native plants to create habitats and design attractive gardens. $14 Saturday, October 17 Shrubs for Fall Color: Lecture and Tour 9:30-11:30am. Bring fall color into your own backyard and avoid long trips to the mountains. Richard Bitner, writer, author, and instructor at Longwood Gardens introduces various genera of colorful fall shrubs. A shrub tour of the garden follows the lecture. $18 November Saturday, November 7 Indoor Gardening with Tropicals and other Unique Plants 9:30-11:30am. Time to get excited about indoor gardening again. Mary Frogale, Green Spring horticulturalist, introduces new varieties of old favorites that grow in our Glasshouse and shows you how to grow them in your home. Culture, care, and propagation covered. Take home a Green Spring gem. $25 Friday, November 20 Botanical Ornaments Workshop 12:30-3pm. Get ready for the holidays by making ornaments from natural materials collected in the gardens. The festive designs of Green Spring staff inspire you to create ornaments of your own. Keep for yourself or give them as gifts. All materials provided. $25