Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden

General Interest Classes

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Plant Materials:
Designed to appeal to a wide range of gardeners, these basic to advanced-level courses focus on selection, culture and care of specific plant groups.

Weekend Gardener Series:
This series of gardening classes will help answer your gardening questions and introduce you to techniques for gardening success. Each course looks at a different issue you may deal with related to your own lawn and garden

Gardening:
Gardening courses help students acquire the information and techniques needed to grow ornamental plants and maintain a healthy garden or lawn.

Nature Studies:
These courses help urban residents and suburbanites reconnect to the natural world. Offerings related to the natural history of the Chicago region highlight flora and fauna in and around the Garden.

Garden Design:
Principles of garden design; introductory AND advanced courses ranging from site analysis and construction to garden art and history, relating design to environment.

Weekend Designer Series:
Lecture series created for novice designers to go from basic design theories to site planning techniques; principles of landscape design.

Botanical Arts and Humanities:
The botanical arts courses encompass a wide variety of topics, from photography to calligraphy, botanical illustration, and paper making. Courses invite both academic study and creative expression.

Plant and People Interactions:
These courses reveal the many interactions between plants and people that enrich our lives every day. People depend on plants for food, fiber, clothing, shelter, medicine and countless other products.