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Pruning with Confidence: Small Trees and Shrubs
Whether you’ve been nervously eyeing an overgrown branch or just want to keep your trees healthy and beautiful for years to come, this practical pruning…
Harvest Festival
Celebrate the bounty of autumn with a festival of activities, music, demonstrations and more, led by Duke Gardens and other local groups in the Charlotte Brody…
On the Rocks: A Scree & Crevice Garden Tour
At first glance, a pile of rocks seems like the last place a plant would want to call home—yet the scree and crevice gardens at Duke Gardens are bursting with…
Seeing the Garden — Plein Air Landscape Painting Through Observation
“Seeing the Garden” is a painting class with instructor James Keul, Durham-based artist and avid gardener, focused on direct observation of the cultivated…
Meet the Keepers
Plan your visit to include a stop in the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden for this special opportunity to meet the keepers of the bees, chickens and incredible…
Hearty Landscapes: Foodscaping for Joy, Beauty & Abundance
Learn how to transform any yard, large or small, into a beautiful, productive edible landscape. This presentation with Brittaney Whitenhill of Our-Backyard.org…
Meet the Keepers
Plan your visit to include a stop in the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden for this special opportunity to meet the keepers of the bees, chickens and incredible…
Mixed-Media Floral Greeting Cards
In this guided mixed-media workshop with Patricia Efunsade, founder and creative director of SaKredJoi Art, participants will create a series of botanically…
Mum’s the Word: Special Walking Tour of Show Chrysanthemums (Oct.)
Mums can be carefully cultivated to produce amazingly large blooms in a spectacular range of flower types and colors. Learn what makes display mums so special…
Botanizing at Occoneechee Mountain
This North Carolina State Natural Area is a gem, with a diversity of natural plant and animal communities not found anywhere else in the Triangle region. Join…
Build a Bug Snug
Support winter wildlife and re-purpose garden cuttings with a bug snug, an easy-to-make sculptural structure made of twigs and stems that provides a place for…
Meet the Keepers
Plan your visit to include a stop in the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden for this special opportunity to meet the keepers of the bees, chickens and incredible…
Walk on the Wild Side
Join horticulture staff and experienced volunteers on a walk around the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants to learn about connections between people, plants and…
Mum’s the Word: Special Walking Tour of Show Chrysanthemums (Nov.)
Mums can be carefully cultivated to produce amazingly large blooms in a spectacular range of flower types and colors. Learn what makes display mums so special…
A Festival of Fabulous Mums
Enjoy an explosion of color this fall during A Festival of Fabulous Mums at Duke Gardens. Exhibition mums will create a dazzling floral display outdoors at the…
A Festival of Fabulous Mums
Enjoy an explosion of color this fall during A Festival of Fabulous Mums at Duke Gardens. Exhibition mums will create a dazzling floral display outdoors at the…
A Festival of Fabulous Mums
Enjoy an explosion of color this fall during A Festival of Fabulous Mums at Duke Gardens. Exhibition mums will create a dazzling floral display outdoors at the…
Rethinking Seasonal Cleanup: Why Less Can Be More for Wildlife (virtual)
Are you unsure about when to cut back dormant plants or how many leaves to leave behind? Perhaps you’ve heard about stem-nesting bees or insects that…
Rethinking Seasonal Cleanup: Why Less Can Be More for Wildlife (in person)
Are you unsure about when to cut back dormant plants or how many leaves to leave behind? Perhaps you’ve heard about stem-nesting bees or insects that…
Meet the Keepers
Plan your visit to include a stop in the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden for this special opportunity to meet the keepers of the bees, chickens and incredible…
Botanical Quilt Blocks
Learn to hand-stitch a garden-inspired quilt block in this two-hour class with Julia Gartrell, artist and creator of the Radical Repair Workshop, that will…
Woody Ethnobotany
Spend an afternoon learning about woody plants with ethnobiologist marc williams. This in-person intensive class begins with a presentation about major tree…
Cultivating Capacity: Plant Meditation and Sculpture
In this accessible workshop, participants use sculpture and plant wisdom as pathways to self-discovery. Led by sculptor and certified mindfulness instructor…
The Story of Stone in the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum
Join Paul Jones, founding curator of the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum, for a walking tour of some of the most iconic stone features found in the arboretum.…