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Hypertufa Garden Planter Saturday, November 2, 9–11 a.m. Fee: $45 members, $65 non-members Registration required. Limit: 8
Experiencing Adkins Habitats
Enhance your garden with a hypertufa planter you make in this workshop under the guidance of Rachel Melvin and Arboretum docent Carol Jelich. Hypertufa is an artificial stone material made from several different aggregates to imitate natural tufa rock. It can easily be molded into different forms, is much lighter than concrete, and looks like weathered crumbly stone. All materials will be provided.
Saturdays, October 19, 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m., November 16, 10 –11:30 a.m., December 21, 10–11:30 a.m. Free with admission Advance reservations are requested. Using David Haskell’s book The Forest Unseen as a guide, this workshop led by Master Naturalists Wendy Jacobs, Anna Harding, Cindy Beemiller, and Carol Jelich will help participants develop the practice of sitting quietly alone in natural habitats to observe and document the sitter’s subjective and objective experience, and to share those observations with others. Reading The Forest Unseen is recommended but is not required to take the class.
This workshop will take place in the Nursery Shed or Greenhouse. Wear work clothes and shoes, and bring long rubber gloves and an adventurous spirit.
Thanksgiving Centerpiece Workshop Saturday, November 23, 10 a.m.–noon Fee: $35 members, $45 non-members
Participants will be encouraged to develop a naturalist’s eye for observing flora and fauna in their habitat, and to express their experiences for mutual enjoyment and enrichment with the group and with readers of the Arboretum blog. They will be invited to help keep the Arboretum community abreast of trends in nature, sightings of flora or fauna that might be surprising, and even tracking phenomena of interest. Participants should bring a small lightweight folding stool or large bucket to sit on; a camera and binoculars are recommended. Paper and pens will be provided, but participants may prefer to write in their own notebooks or journals.
Create a long low centerpiece using native fall flora under the guidance of floral designer and Arboretum docent Nancy Beatty. Nancy’s passion for native plants and organic gardening brought her to the Arboretum and has led her to a successful and rewarding career in gardening. As proprietor of Sweet Bay Garden Design, Nancy arranges flowers for weddings, parties, and events and designs, creates, and maintains flower, vegetable, and herb gardens for her customers. Flowers, supplies, and centerpiece container will be provided.
Pysanky: Ukrainian Egg Decorating
“ Experiencing Adkins” Forest Sitting Kit Available for check-out in the Visitor’s Center, this kit includes maps, journal, pens, insect repellent, and a pillow, all in a light carrier that is also used as a seat. Suggestions and guidance for recording your experience are included.
Sunday, December 8, noon–3:30 p.m. Fee: $25 members, $30 non-members Make a one-of-a-kind holiday gift from the heart in the timehonored Ukrainian tradition of Pysanky. Pysanky eggs are created using motifs rooted in nature and the cycles of life. Designs, including spiders, sheaves of wheat, spirals, stars and circles, bees, flowers, grapes, birds, and mammals, are made with an instrument called a kistka, beeswax, and dyes. This workshop will explore the art in a free form, using symbolism incorporated in design to create an egg that tells a specific story. Each participant will receive an egg and a Pysanky kit containing the basic tools and materials required for the class. Instructor Coreen Weilminster, who learned the art from her great-aunts, has been making Pysanky for over 20 years. 13
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