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Dates:Thu from 7/10/25 - 7/24/25
Hours:10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Ages:Adults
In/Outdoor:Indoor, Outdoor
Cost:$$$ see below
Category:Nature & Outdoors
Love the new wilder gardens?

These naturalistic gardens are more than a field meadow.

Want to use native grasses and flowers to attract pollinators?

Small space or large, you’ll learn how to design “wild” for your existing or new perennial garden.

In this three-session workshop, you’ll learn how to select a personal garden color palette, how to create vivid planting combinations that will flower in seasonal succession, and how to use drifts, masses, and individual plants to create garden lay-outs.

We’ll note plants to add for winter interest.

Our focus will be the wild pollinator perennial flower garden sequenced to bloom from spring through frost.

Students will learn how to, and practice how-to, create their own: a personal color palette, planting combinations in bloom succession, and planting lay-outs.

Choice plants will be introduced in lectures.

You’ll practice creating a small garden with your own pre-measured small garden area (no larger 20 x 8’) and we will discuss how to expand your design to meet the needs of larger spaces.

Maria will lead you through the process she uses and developed in her design work spanning 30 years.

Tutorial walks in NEBG gardens will inspire our garden design.

(Dress for the weather!).

Color slide lectures, lecture hand-outs, practice worksheets, and instructor review of your in-class work will get you started on your naturalistic pollinator flower garden.

This 3-day workshop will meet on July 10th, 17th, and 24th from 10am-2pm.

We will eat lunch during class time after a short bio break.

Students should bring their own lunch or order from the cafe.

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$250 Member Adult | $300 Adult (includes admission to the Garden)

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purchase.nebg.org/PatronEducation.aspx?pid=14987&cal=https%3a%2f%2fpurchase.nebg.org%3a443%2fcalendar.aspx%3fet%3dc

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11 French Drive, Boylston, MA, 01505 map
Phone: 508-869-6111

At New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston, MA

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