Classes and Workshops
Overview
Unless otherwise noted, programs take place at the Barnes Arboretum at SJU, 50 Lapsley Lane, Merion, PA 19066. For more information, call (610) 660-2802
Your Small-Space Garden
Saturdays, January 25 and February 1, 2020 (2 classes)
Your Small-Space Garden
10 – 12:30 pm
Instructor: Kathy Salisbury, MS, horticulturist
Cost: $75
Even the smallest patches of soil can produce vegetables, a beautiful display, or both. Assess your site for potential, then learn how container gardening, vertical gardening, and specific plants can be deployed in small spaces. Create a plan specific to your space that you’ll be ready to implement as soon as the ground thaws.
Takes place at the Barnes, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19130.
So, you want to keep honeybees…
Thursday, February 13, 2020
So, you want to keep honeybees…
6 – 8 pm
Instructor: Scott Guiser, MS in horticulture
Cost: $45
Honeybees are a hot topic and keeping bees has gained renewed interest, if only because honeybee life is fascinating and their by-products - like honey and beeswax - are wholesome and healthy. Explore equipment requirements, hive location, honey production, and honeybee management with a beekeeper with 40 years of experience. This session will help you decide if hobby beekeeping is right for you.
Grow your berry best - Small fruits for the backyard
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Grow your berry best - Small fruits for the backyard
6 –8 pm
Instructor: Scott Guiser, MS in horticulture
Cost: $45
Your garden can provide healthy snacks as well as tranquil green space. Strawberries, blueberries and raspberries are tasty and rewarding additions to the home garden. Learn from an agriculture expert what it takes to succeed in growing these juicy and nutritious crops.
Botanical Illustration
Thursdays, February 13 to April 23, 2020 (10 classes)
Botanical Illustration
1 – 4 pm
Instructor: Marylyn Waltzer, certified botanical illustrator
Cost: $450
The study of plant details required in botanical illustration will open your eyes to nature's beauty and develop your understanding of botany. This course begins with drawing: learn form, perspective, lighting, and texture. Using different techniques, create drawings with contrast, balance, layering, and design. Develop your artistic eye using a small range of graphite pencils. Following the same layering technique you will learn in pencil drawing, move into watercolor. See how colors interact with each other in hue and value and how to select the right colors to blend, best representing your subject. Advanced students work on the artistic study of a living plant, from graphite to watercolor. Demonstrations will be given along with attention to individual needs.