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Gardening Techniques: Session B

Chicago Botanic Garden
4.4 148 reviews

Enhance your gardening expertise with professional tips and hands-on activities covering maintenance, winterization, plantings, and more. This hybrid course combines engaging online lectures with practical on-site sessions to build your skills and confidence in horticultural best practices. Prepare for outdoor learning and immerse yourself in the art of gardening.

  • Advanced
  • 18 and older
  • Earn 10% back in points
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    If you find the same class on the same dates for less within 48 hours of booking, send us the link. We match the price as credit or the difference.

  • 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
  • 18 hours over 12 sessions
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Online and On-site Hybrid Learn tips and techniques used by professional gardeners through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Acquire solid gardening skills and determine best management practices. Topics range from general grounds maintenance, winterization, and plantings, to other horticultural practices. Dress for the weather for on-site class sessions.

Portions of this course will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts.


Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance. A supply list will be sent.

6 Tuesdays: 
January 20 – February 24
5 – 6 p.m. (online) and 

6 Saturdays:
January 24 – February 28
10 a.m. – noon (classroom 1)
(rain date Saturday, March 7, 10 a.m. – noon)

PGL 1, PGL 2, and GDC requirement

Refund Policy

Refund requests must be submitted to [email protected] 2 business days prior to the program’s start date and time. The registration fee will be refunded less a 15% processing charge. A refund is issued in the form of a credit on file (to be used for future programs).

Refund requests submitted less than 48 hours prior to a program start date are non-transferable and are not eligible for a refund.

Fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable on and after the program’s start date. We cannot refund fees requested on or after the start date of a program or for sessions missed due to student illness or other personal situations.

Registration fees for courses grouped and priced as a series will be considered one program and subject to all of the above guidelines. A refund request must be received prior to the start date of the series' first class session and will subsequently cancel your registration in every session of the series.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a world-renowned living museum and conservation science center that offers multiple unique nature courses spread throughout 26 gardens and four natural areas on 385 acres.

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