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General Assembly @ Online Class, Seattle, WA
Whether you are delivering a zoom webinar, speaking to an entire company or a few clients, your presentation skills establish your credibility and impact. Join us for an updated workshop that will teach you top tips and actionable strategies for presenting confidently online. Presenting online for the first time? Not a confident presenter, even in person? This hands-on workshop goes through all the possible disasters that could happen and gives...
UW Botanic Gardens @ Virtual Classroom
Learn the right way to prune roses: hybrid teas, climbers, & landscape roses. Class will cover the best time of year to prune, the right tools, and techniques for ensuring healthy long lasting roses. This lecture series is designed for those who work in landscape maintenance. Each lecture provides information on tools and techniques for quality pruning with better long-term results and customer satisfaction.
UW Botanic Gardens @ Virtual Classroom
This class will cover pruning Japanese upright maples (fan pruning), Japanese laceleaf maples (shell pruning), pruning pines (cloud pruning) and shearing masses of lower story plants. This lecture series is designed for those who work in landscape maintenance. Each lecture provides information on tools and techniques for quality pruning with better long-term results and customer satisfaction.
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UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA
This class will introduce you to common foliar pests and diseases often seen in spring in the Pacific Northwest, including rusts, mildews, anthracnose, bacterial blights, tent caterpillars, mites, lacebugs, root weevils, and aphids. Plant Health Care (PHC) approaches to management, including acceptable Integrated Pest Management (IPM) methods will be covered. The course will include field diagnosis practice, as well as an indoor lab session for everyone...
UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA
This session will focus on insect pests and diseases that impact the health of landscape and native conifers in our region, including rusts, twig and needle blights, needle casts, scales, adelgids, bark beetles, and moths. We will examine samples in the classroom and the field. Plant Health Care (PHC) approaches to management, including acceptable Integrated Pest Management (IPM) methods will be covered. We will do diagnosis practice both in the...
All About Conifers: Tree Identification, Management and Landscape Use Conifers provide the structural framework for many gardens, serving as specimen trees, focal points, screens, and hedges. Unique growth habits along with contrasts of foliage color and texture can provide year round interest in any size garden. In the dark days of winter a golden cypress can light up the garden with colorful foliage, and a prostrate weeping hemlock can soften...
Class attendees will learn about the restoration project design process in order to plan and implement more successful and cost effective ecological restoration projects. They will learn how to develop a design that meets project goals with the given site conditions and how to respond adaptively to unexpected changes. After an overview of project development and implementation topics, attendees will be split into teams to perform a field site assessment...
The Reiki Masters attunes you to the Master Symbol and activates the highest level of Reiki. The following is part of Reiki Masters: Experience a guided meditation and be attuned to the Master level of Reiki Be attuned and open to the full level of Reiki energy Become aligned to your higher-self allowing for more guidance Learn the Master symbol, the Reiki symbol for awakening and experience the energies of the symbol Get any of your Reiki...
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
2023 Ecological Restoration Symposium: Beginning Again – Ecosystem Restoration from the Ground Up This symposium will be an in-person and virtual hybrid event, bringing together researchers and practitioners to address the complex process of restoring native plant communities from the ground up, from structure removal to soil remediation & community engagement. This symposium will guide attendees through the complex process of restoring...
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
This lecture and hands-on workshop will cover how to manage and prune native vegetation adjacent to trails, drives, and streets for optimal environmental functions, appearance, safety, & visibility. This class is open to everyone, but geared towards public works, maintenance, and landscape crew members as well as community stewardship volunteers, supervisors, and field staff. Natural area landscapes hold an important place and functions in...
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
Join this workshop to learn how to build & maintain your own closed terrarium! Class supply fee covers all necessary supplies. Terrariums are micro gardening environments that allow you to view nature up close and display it as a work of art. Closed terrariums require less watering than traditional terrariums. During the day, condensation will form on the glass, then in the evening as the glass cools, the moisture returns to the soil....
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
Learn to safely identify many of our native edibles here in the Puget Sound area as well as ways to incorporate native edible plants into your home landscape! This class will include a small tasting of different native plants you can grow and harvest as well as a short walk around the Union Bay Natural Area to take a look at some of the native edibles and compare them to invasive look-alikes. Children are welcome, but class content will be...
UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA
Plant CSI: Leaf Spots, Curl, Galls, and Holes - Foliar Pests & Diseases Become a Plant Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)! Learn about key plant diseases and insect pests that can cause problems for favorite trees and shrubs in the landscape. Why does it seem like overnight your favorite shrubs and trees get so many leaf spots? Should your kinnikinnick leaves be so thick, curly and red? And what insect is eating your rhododendrons and azaleas?...
UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA
Learn how to identify and manage fungal decay diseases that affect native tree species in the Pacific Northwest. Gain essential skills in recognizing decay pathogens for proper tree health assessment and structure evaluation. Discover effective Plant Health Care (PHC) approaches and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) methods for disease management.
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
Learn how to create an indoor garden in miniature. Terrariums are a micro gardening technique that allows you to view nature up close and display it as a work of art. Instructor Tassy de Give, author of Rooted in Design, will guide you on building a terrarium and how to maintain it. Learn how to create an indoor garden in miniature. Terrariums are a micro gardening technique that allows you to view nature up close and display it as a work of art....
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
Learn the ancient Japanese art of Kokedama gardening and create a unique living sculpture under the guidance of instructor Tassy de Give. Discover the history and materials used in this fascinating art form at UW Botanic Gardens.
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
Class attendees will be introduced to restoration-relevant project management concepts in order to plan and implement more successful and cost effective ecological restoration projects. Considerations of project management like identifying project needs and stakeholders and researching sites, as well as creating project schedules and budgets will be discussed. Class attendees will also be introduced to important resources for restoration practitioners...
UW Botanic Gardens @ 2300 Arboretum Drive E, Seattle, WA
The Centennial Garden is at its best in summer. The garden, completed in September 2017 in partnership with the Seattle Garden Club, was designed as a colorful destination at the south end of Azalea Way, overlooking the pond and with views to the Lookout Gazebo. Ray Larson, our Curator of Living Collections, will talk about the plants in this new garden, and which ones are at their best during each season of the year. Your $5 at the door donation...
UW Botanic Gardens @ 18607 Bothell Way NE, Washington, DC
McMenamins has revitalized the Anderson School, Bothell’s first junior high dating back to 1931. Riz Reyes, McMenamins horticulturalist, will be your guide through the gardens on the 5.4 acre property. The gardens showcase several planting schemes aimed to display diversity and a plant collector's palette. Come see the architectural desert garden, bold and lush plantings outside and inside of the Northshore Lagoon, stroll through the wildflower...
UW Botanic Gardens @ 3501 NE 41st St, Seattle, WA
Join Certified Forest Therapy Guide, artist, and writer Julie Hepp as they facilitate nature and art experiences. Participants will be invited to slow down and connect with both human and more-than-human beings through sensory-based activities. Then, participants will be invited to create works by writing, illustration, painting, and working with nature to create patterns and art. Instructor Julie Hepp is a life-long lover of nature. Julie shares...
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