C l a s s e s f o r A d u l t s • Y o u t h & F a m i l y S p r i n g • S u m m e r 2012 F e b r u a r y –A u g u s t TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE Offered for a diversity of learners, from young explorers to budding enthusiasts to skilled gardeners, our courses have been expertly designed to educate, inspire and enrich. Most importantly, they are intended to strengthen the connections each of us has with the natural world and all its wonders. Come grow with us! TABLE OF CONTENTS ADULT CLASSES 3 Green Living...... 27 Lantern Festival Inspired...... 3 Nature Study...... 29 Gardening and Landscaping... 5 Horticulture for Health St. Louis Garden Blitz...... 5 & Well-being...... 32 Native Plant School...... 6 YOUTH & FAMILY “Become a Great Gardener” Series PROGRAMS 35 for Beginning Gardeners...... 7 Edible Gardening...... 8 Ages 2–6...... 35 Gardening Best Practices...... 9 Ages 6 and older...... 38 Landscape Design and Ideas...... 12 Drop-in Family Activities...... 40 Guided Walks & Tours...... 14 Family Programming...... 41 Arts & Crafts...... 17 Overnights...... 45 Painting & Drawing...... 17 Class Information/ Photography...... 18 policies 46 Botanical Crafts ...... 20 Food & Cooking...... 23 Plant-Inspired Meals & Ideas...... 23 Living Local...... 26

And you thought you were just signing up for a fun class. Whether you visit our family of St. Louis area attractions with family and friends, enjoy membership in our organization, take one of our classes, or experience a special event, you’re helping save at-risk species and protect habitats close to home and around the world. On behalf of the Missouri Botanical Garden…and our one shared planet…thank you. To discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve and enrich life. —mission of the Missouri Botanical Garden

On the cover: Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) in the Japanese Garden. Photo by Jonathan Knobelock

Site codes: MBG—Missouri Botanical Garden SNR—Shaw Nature Reserve BH—Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House CBEC—Commerce Bank Center for Science Education

2 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes ntern ntern L ADULT CLASSES a Lantern Festival inspired F e

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See how the festival lanterns are Join Brian Pelletier from Kakao Insp al put together by Chinese artisans. Chocolate as he takes us on a Each lantern is constructed by hand “moveable feast” via a virtual trip and delicately moved to its final halfway around the world to China i

on-site location. You’ll be amazed as he infuses native herbs, fruits, r at the detail of each lantern as it and spices into St. Louis’ own ed is being artfully constructed. chocolate. Never boring and always Thursday, April 26 irresistible, Brian brings his usual 6 to 7 p.m. wit and culinary skill to your favorite OR Wednesday, May 2 candy and adds his own special 6 to 7 p.m. twist. A treat for the senses. OR Tuesday, May 15 Tuesday, May 15 7 to 9 p.m. 10 to 11 a.m. $35 members; $42 nonmembers $19 members; $23 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Meet at Ridgway Visitor Center Ticket Brian Pelletier Counter MBG staff Plants of China Walk (MBG) China is home to one-eighth of the Chinese Cooking Basics (MBG) plant species in the world! Its plant Join Theresa Liu, author of the diversity is among the richest of Chinese cookbook Fairy Tale Soup, any country. Many of the common as she shows you the principles plants gardeners rely on have of Chinese cooking, from slicing origins in China, and the Missouri and dicing to flavorings and stir fry. Botanical Garden has almost 2,500 Theresa will show you how to make plants in its collection. Starting in the ever-popular classic hot and sour the Chinese Garden, the Missouri soup, green tea fried rice, sweet and Botanical Garden’s Chinese Garden sour pork or chicken, and a traditional Horticulturist will highlight those plants stir-fry using seasonal vegetables. that grow well in our climate including Saturday, April 28 dawn redwoods, lady ferns, and 7 to 9 p.m. $35 members; $42 nonmembers cunninghamia. Discover the wonderful Kemper Classroom variety of plants from China and you Theresa Liu don’t even need your passport! Wednesday, May 9 6 to 7:30 p.m. $19 members; $23 nonmembers Kemper Classroom MBG staff

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 3 ntern ntern L a Chinese in St. Louis (MBG) Chinese Cooking and the St. Louis’ Chinatown was one of many Lantern Festival (MBG) Chinese communities that sprang A special guest speaker from Webster up across the country, facing many University’s Confucius Institute challenges and successes. Join F will help students make their own e Dr. Huping Ling, author of Chinese st dumplings and explain the important in St. Louis, 1857–2007, as she role food plays in the Lantern Festival. i v takes us through a journey that Thursday, June 14 al Insp al includes loneliness—as individuals 6 to 8 p.m. left their families in China to come to $45 members; $54 nonmembers* St. Louis—and community as they Kemper Classroom Webster University Confucius Instructor bonded together in their home-away- i r from-home to establish new families

ed Night Magic: Lantern and start their own businesses. Festival Photography (MBG) Book signing at the Garden Gate Capture the color and magic of the Gift Shop, 3 p.m. Lantern Festival in the evening at its Saturday, May 26 1 to 3 p.m. most stunning illumination. With tips $35 members; $42 nonmembers* and tricks from your professional Botanical Room photography instructor, you will take Dr. Huping Ling wonderful photos of the night sky filled with symbol and culture. Authentic Chinese Tea 2 Thursdays: June 21 and 28 Ceremony (MBG) 7 to 9:30 p.m. Tea plays a large role in the daily $89 members; $107 nonmembers* life of the Chinese people. Join Li Missouri Room Scott Avetta Fang, Program Director at Webster University’s Confucius Institute, as The Importance of Plants she shares with you “the best tea in Chinese Culture (MBG) in China” from her own personal Plants are important in every collection. She will also put the tea culture for medicinal, nutritional, ceremony in perspective with the environmental, and spiritual reasons. Lantern Festival. After enjoying the This class will explore some of the tea ceremony, participants can walk plants for which China is known, and among the lanterns under an (almost) identify a few plants that are filled with full moon. thousands of years of symbolism. Thursday, June 7 6 to 8 p.m. A guest speaker from Webster $45 members; $54 nonmembers* University’s Confucius Institute will Kemper Classroom give you wonderful insight into what Li Fang role plants play in Chinese society. From cherry blossoms to tea leaves, you’re sure to be surprised and delighted by many of these plants. Thursday, July 12 6 to 8 p.m. $35 members; $42 nonmembers* Missouri Room Webster University Confucius Instructor * Includes Lantern Festival admission.

4 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes GARDENING & LANDSCAPING & GARDENING Genard ing & Landscaping

St Louis Garden Blitz: Solve • Grow • Enjoy (MBG) Presented by Missouri Botanical Garden and the Horticulture Co-op of Metro St. Louis Saturday, March 3, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Missouri Botanical Garden $70 members; $85 nonmembers Through understanding the dynamics of healthy local ecosystems, you can solve many common garden problems in your own garden space. Join us for an informative and inspiring day of classes, demonstrations, exhibits and workshops featuring both nationally and locally recognized horticulture professionals. Keynote Speaker: Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home Additional class titles include: Our Garden is for the Birds, Urban Landscape Opportunities, Seeds for Life, Plant Selection for Critter-Prone Landscapes, Designing Landscapes for Reduced Maintenance, Effective Ground Covers, Bountiful Urban Edibles, Replacing Invasives, Purposeful Plant Introductions for 2012, Plants for Rain Gardens and Moist Soils, The Pollination Connection, and Top Performing Native Plants! (Choose timed breakout sessions online.) To register go to www.mobot.org/adulteducation

Permaculture Training: 4-Day Design W! and Hands-On Workshop (CBEC) NE In good permaculture design, work is minimized, yields are increased, wastes are eliminated and the environment is restored. During this four-day intensive training, you will learn practical design, building, and maintenance skills useful in urban, suburban, and rural settings—at any scale. This project-based training will cover water harvesting, rain tanks, grey water collection systems, swales, backyard aquaponics, rooftop and apartment gardening, simple greenhouse ideas, conservation measures, renewable technologies, soil conservation, compost tea, sheet composting, earth berms, and much more! Earn credit towards Permaculture Design Course (PDC) Certification. Thursday, March 8 through Sunday, March 11 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (optional evening activities) $550 member; $595 nonmembers Early Bird: $495 member; $550 nonmembers Early Bird registration deadline: Friday, February 10 Commerce Bank Center for Science Education—Room 126 Bill Wilson, Midwest Permaculture To register go to www.usgbc-mogateway.org/events

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 5 GARDENING & LANDSCAPING & GARDENING Native Plant School (SNR) Native Plant School is a year-round series of indoor/outdoor classes in the Whitmire Wildflower Garden at Shaw Nature Reserve. It covers various aspects of native landscaping. Please bring your questions, comments, drawings, and plant specimens, etc. Participation from the audience is encouraged. Classes are designed for adults only. Native Plant School at Shaw Nature Reserve is underwritten by Grow Native! and Wild Ones Natural Landscapers. $12 members; $15 nonmembers Carriage House

Deer-resistant Native Plants Gardening for Wildlife & People Thursday, March 8 Thursday, May 17 1 to 4 p.m. Or Diane Donovan Saturday, May 19 1 to 4 p.m. Book Review 2—Bringing Dave Tylka Nature Home by Doug Tallamy Friday, March 9 Rain Gardening for Homeowners 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, June 14 Scott Woodbury and Cindy Gilberg Or Saturday, June 16 Sedges for Native Landscaping 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 12 Cindy Gilberg 9 a.m. to noon Scott Woodbury Small Flowering Trees, Shrubs, & Vines—Part 2 Small Flowering Trees, Thursday, July 12 Shrubs, & Vines—Part 1 Or Thursday, April 12 Friday, July 13 Or 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, April 13 Scott Woodbury 1 to 4 p.m. Scott Woodbury Book Review 1—Noah’s Garden by Sara B. Stein Container Gardening Friday, August 17 & Native Annuals 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 26 Scott Woodbury and Cindy Gilberg 9 a.m. to noon Scott Woodbury Top Performing Native Plants for Home Gardening Thursday, April 26 Or Saturday, April 28 1 to 4 p.m. Cindy Gilberg

6 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes GARDENING & LANDSCAPING & GARDENING “Become a Great Gardener” Series Classes for Beginning Gardeners This series of classes is designed for beginners just getting into gardening. Join others as you get answers to those questions you don’t want to ask that “know-it-all” advanced gardener over the fence!

Perfect Planting Herbs in Containers (MBG) Techniques (MBG) Several colorful sage plants in a Plants that are planted too deep or cheery red planter can add fragrance in the wrong soil can die prematurely and color to your patio. Herbs are because they have shallow roots. Learn wonderful plants and well-suited to about this and other problems as well grow in containers. Get inspired and as information about soil amendments, plant up three classic culinary herbs to when to plant, and other tips for planting take home. perennials, vegetables, annuals, shrubs, Sunday, April 29 1 to 3:30 p.m. and trees. $40 members; $48 nonmembers Sunday, March 18 Missouri Room 1 to 3 p.m. Cindy Gilberg $25 members; $30 nonmembers Missouri Room Designing with Cindy Gilberg Perennials and NEW! Designing with Perennials Annuals: Part II (MBG) and Annuals: Part I (MBG) Some perennials and annuals just Many plants mentioned on TV look good together. How better to design programs don’t work for the understand this than to walk around St. Louis area. Through slides and the Garden grounds and see with class discussion, learn some great your own eyes. Building on concepts annual and perennial color and texture learned in part I, Cindy Gilberg will combinations that will make your show you examples of great plants for neighbors green with envy. your yard for both shade and sun. Sunday, March 25 Sunday, May 6 1 to 3 p.m. 1 to 3 p.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers $25 members; $30 nonmembers Missouri Room Kemper Classroom Cindy Gilberg Cindy Gilberg W! Gardening 101 (MBG) NEW! Shady Oasis (MBG) NE This intensive, interactive course will What can you grow when your yard acquaint you with the fundamentals of is full of trees? Plant your own oasis. home gardening. Cindy will talk about This part-lecture and part-walking tour plant choices, terminology, and basic will introduce you to the best annuals, tools for your garden. An informal perennials, and shrubs for your question and answer session will get to St. Louis shade garden. the heart of what you want to know. Sunday, June 3 Sunday, April 15 1 to 3 p.m. 9 a.m. to noon $25 members; $30 nonmembers $37 members; $44 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Missouri Room Cindy Gilberg Cindy Gilberg

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 7 GARDENING & LANDSCAPING & GARDENING Edible Gardening

Organic Spring Strawberries, Blueberries, Vegetables (MBG) & Grapes Galore! (MBG) Start a spring vegetable garden this Grow and harvest sweet strawberries, year using organic methods! Topics juicy grapes, tasty blueberries, and covered will include garden planning succulent blackberries in your own for spring, soil preparation, mulching, backyard. This class is designed composting, insect control, and seed to teach you the basics, including selection. You will take a guided tour establishing plants, pruning, and of the Kemper vegetable gardens common pests. Elizabeth Wahle where our spring vegetable garden is will get you started with these already underway. small fruits, plus help you avoid Tuesday, March 27 common beginner mistakes. 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, May 7 $25 members; $30 nonmembers 7 to 9 p.m. Kemper Classroom $25 members; $30 nonmembers Cheryl Rafert and Elizabeth Spiegel Missouri Room Elizabeth Wahle Organic Summer Harvesting Your Vegetables (MBG) W! Tomatoes, peppers, and squash— Vegetables (MBG) NE oh my! Learn how to make a great Want to harvest your vegetables at summer vegetable garden using their best or learn what to look for at organic methods. Topics will include the local farmers’ market? Here is your garden planning, soil preparation, chance. Get tips and tricks on when mulching, composting, insect control, your colorful tomatoes are ready; plan and seed selection. You will take a your garden with succession planting guided tour of the Kemper vegetable so there is always something to garden and learn what works and harvest; and start thinking about your what doesn’t directly from the fall garden. With a classroom lecture horticulturist who cares for it. and guided tour of the Kemper Center Wednesday, May 9 vegetable garden, you will have the 6 to 8 p.m. confidence and knowledge to grow $25 members; $30 nonmembers Kemper Classroom and buy the freshest and tastiest Cheryl Rafert and Elizabeth Spiegel vegetables around. Tuesday, August 28 6 to 8 p.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Cheryl Rafert and Elizabeth Spiegel

8 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes GARDENING & LANDSCAPING & GARDENING Gardening Best Practices

MBG’s Favorite Tools warm-season lawns, please register of the Trade (MBG) for zoysia lawn care on April 14. Saturday, March 31 What are the Garden horticulturists’ 9 to 11 a.m. secrets to friable, well-drained soil? $25 members; $30 nonmembers Adding Turface (soil conditioner) and Missouri Room leaf mold. Learn about these and Glenn Kraemer many other tools of the trade including Don’t Kill Your Soil! (MBG) the best pruning tools, soil mixes, This practical class will dispel and hori-hori knives in this fun and common myths about soil W! informative class filled with the staff’s NE amendments, how to keep your favorites things. Discover what tools nitrogen in check, and what to do help make the Garden gorgeous for so you don’t kill the living organisms millions of visitors. Tuesday, March 6 in your soil. An educational and 7 to 9 p.m. enlightening class for all gardeners! $25 members; $30 nonmembers Monday, April 2 Missouri Room 7 to 9 p.m. Jason Delaney $25 members; $30 nonmembers Botanical Room Beginning Bonsai (MBG) Teresa Morris Gain an understanding of the basic Basic Pruning (MBG) principles of bonsai in this hands-on Pruning is often needed to control workshop. Brian and Milt Ciskowski plant size, enhance beauty, correct will guide you through the steps for damage from pests, and increase creating your own indoor bonsai flower and fruit production. In this plant. Styling, pruning, wiring, and class, you will learn when and how to overwintering will be discussed as prune trees, shrubs, and evergreens well as plant selection and routine to maximize these beneficial effects. maintenance. All materials will be In addition to observing a live pruning provided including your own bonsai. Saturday, March 24 demonstration, you’ll also learn about 9 a.m. to noon the selection and care of the best $60 members; $72 nonmembers pruning gear and equipment. Garden Room Thursday, April 12 Brian and Milt Ciskowski 7 to 9 p.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Spring Lawn Care (MBG) Botanical Room Cool-season lawns of bluegrass Ben Chu and fescue varieties are best for St. Louis. In this class, Glenn Kraemer will focus on seeding, renovating, fertilizing, and watering. He will also discuss weed, disease, and pest control challenges. You’ll come away with a complete picture of the steps necessary to maintain your cool- season lawn. If you have zoysia or

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 9 GARDENING & LANDSCAPING & GARDENING Zoysia Lawn Care (MBG) Repotting Your Orchid (MBG) Zoysia has different cultural Bring one pot-bound orchid to class requirements than cool-season and Babs Wagner will show you the grasses. In this class, specific proper way to give it more room. She information and schedules for will also talk about sterile pruning fertilizing, watering, and weed control practices, culture information, and will be presented. Learn how to make more. Please bring your own pruners; your zoysia lawn the best on the block soil and pots are provided. with a minimum of effort. Monday, April 30 Saturday, April 14 7 to 9 p.m. 9 to 11 a.m. $30 members; $36 nonmembers $25 members; $30 nonmembers Botanical Room Missouri Room Blanche Wagner Glenn Kraemer Tabletop Topiary (MBG) W! Blooms for All Seasons (MBG) Do you want to create a great NE Fill your garden with color throughout centerpiece or just practice your the year with perennials and shrubs. pruning? You can do both in this class. Dianne O’Connell will share tried Mark Zigrang will introduce you to and true combinations that will layer basic pruning techniques as you make blooms throughout the season and your own 18-inch standard topiary. create interest with height and texture. He will also cover which plants make Plan your garden so you have flowers great topiaries, future maintenance, bursting with life all year round. and repotting so your topiary will last a Monday, April 16 long time. All supplies provided. Please 7 to 9 p.m. bring your own pruners. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Saturday, May 5 Botanical Room 10 a.m. to noon Dianne O’Connell $40 members; $48 nonmembers Growing Orchids: Botanical Room W! Mark Zigrang Part II (MBG) NE Is your orchid overgrown, and are you Best Plants for St. Louis afraid to repot it for fear you might kill Gardeners (MBG) it? This class is for you. Babs Wagner Join the host of KMOX “Garden will show you how to divide and repot Hotline” and author of the Missouri a variety of orchids like Phalaenopsis, Gardener’s Guide and Month by Dendrobium, Cymbidium, and more in Month Gardening in Missouri as he this demonstration class. This course highlights the best plants for our is appropriate for both orchid novices gardens. With years of experience of and enthusiasts. planning gardens and hearing which Monday, April 23 plants the public loves and hates, his 7 to 9 p.m. advice will get you off to the right start. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Botanical Room He will cover perennials, annuals, and Blanche Wagner shrubs and a few choice, small trees. Tuesday, May 1 7 to 9 p.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Missouri Room Mike Miller

10 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes Pruning in the Japanese Grow Hydrangeas LANDSCAPING & GARDENING W! Style (MBG) Like Martha (MBG) NE Learn the pruning style used in the Do you think hydrangeas are a Japanese Garden, Seiwa-en, through mystery wrapped in a riddle inside lecture and outdoor demonstration. an enigma? In this class we’re taking Techniques for controlling size, shape, the mystery out of this beautiful and limb placement of pines and shrub so that you, too, can grow maples will be discussed. A brief hydrangeas like Martha. We’ll cover overview of pruning guidelines will which types prefer sun or shade, be covered, as well as going beyond fertilizing tips, and pruning techniques. those basics by adding a more artistic You’ll get a guided tour through the element. The techniques you will learn garden grounds to see some of these can be used in any style garden. beauties in their full glory. Saturday, May 5 Saturday, June 16 9 to 11:30 a.m. 10 a.m. to noon $32 members; $38 nonmembers $25 members; $30 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Garden Room Teresa Pafford Kim Reiss

Easy Rose Gardening— W! Missouri Plants: Native Really! (MBG) NE American and Pioneer Retired Missouri Botanical Garden Healing (MBG) Rosarian Diane Brueckman will You may look at a wild field in Missouri introduce you to Earth-Kind Roses, and see beautiful wildflowers or a designation given to select old pesky weeds, but Native Americans and new roses after extensive and pioneers in this area saw a rich research and field trials. Only roses pharmacopeia of medicinal plants that demonstrate superior pest and used the local flora to treat a tolerance and outstanding landscape wide variety of ailments. Take a tour performance are selected. If you’ve through our Sacred Seeds Garden, given up on roses in the past, this which includes local tallgrass class is for you! prairie and shade plants, to enjoy Sunday, May 20 these plants in their natural habitat. 2 to 4 p.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers See demonstrations of medicinal Botanical Room harvesting, learn traditional techniques Diane Brueckman for transforming local plants into medicinal remedies, and celebrate the importance of the local Missouri flora to Native Americans and pioneers. Saturday, June 23 9 a.m. to noon $30 members; $36 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Ashley Glenn

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 11 GARDENING & LANDSCAPING & GARDENING Landscape Design & Ideas

Home Landscape Design (MBG) Raised Bed Gardens (MBG) This course is specifically designed Do you have heavy, rock-hard soil but to help gardeners transform their want a beautiful vegetable garden? home landscapes into a natural oasis A raised bed garden could be the that’s both beautiful and beneficial for perfect alternative to hours and hours plants, people, and the environment. of trying to change the soil. Dianne Beginning with the basics of design, O’Connell will teach you about the you will learn about front plantings, materials for construction and site private areas, energy conservation, selection. She will share her seasonal and plant selection for your home. calendar, from starting seeds to You will be encouraged to develop planting and maintaining the garden, a landscape plan during class for as well as making it aesthetically your own yard or garden, and study pleasing in your landscape. plant material independently. Some Monday, March 26 gardening experience recommended. 7 to 9 p.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers You are invited to bring photos of Botanical Room your yard to the first session. Class Dianne O’Connell supplies will also be discussed. 6 Wednesdays: March 7, 14, 21, 28; Container Gardening (MBG) April 4, 11 Tired of planting the same old 7 to 9 p.m. geraniums and marigolds in your $144 members; $174 nonmembers Botanical Room containers? Through slides and a Randy Mardis planting demonstration, Jill Schroer OR will discuss basic container care, plus 6 Tuesdays: April 3,10, 17, 24; May 1, 8 give you new ideas for combining 7 to 9 p.m. plants that will add some pizzazz to $144 members; $173 nonmembers Botanical Room your yard. Combinations will include John Bell plants for sun and shade. Tuesday, April 3 Wet Feet 7 to 9 p.m. NEW! $25 members; $30 nonmembers Gardening (MBG) Missouri Room Do you have a low-lying area that is Jill Schroer far too wet for most of your plants? This class is for you—just in time for spring showers. A number of perennials like damp or moist soil, and some even require it to grow well. Cindy Gilberg will explore with you these water-loving plants and provide tips on integrating water features and practical plant care. Tuesday, March 20 7 to 9 p.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Botanical Room Cindy Gilberg

12 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes Gardens of England: How Does YOUR Herb LANDSCAPING & GARDENING W! Inspiration for the Garden Garden Grow? (MBG) NE and Your Yard (MBG) Design your herb garden with Through gorgeous photographs and experienced advice! After a brief insightful commentary, experience introduction in the display hall, ride the more than 15 gardens with your tour tram to the herb garden behind Tower guide, Victorian District Horticulturist Grove House. You will tour the garden Jennifer Kleeschulte. Travel along with Herb Society members and as she highlights interesting plants, discuss the wonderful herbs that grow gorgeous combinations, and the pick there. After a return tram, you will of the most popular garden styling in design your own personal garden with her recent trip to famous places like the help of society members. This is Waddesdon Manor, Chatsworth, and an incredible way to “plan” or “rethink” Hidcote. Jennifer’s excitement about how your herb garden grows! plants is contagious as she shares Monday, May 21 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. tips and tricks that will help you $48 members; $54 nonmembers incorporate her finds into your garden. Meet in the Orthwein Floral Display Hall Tuesday, April 10 St. Louis Herb Society 6 to 8 p.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers The Magic of Nature Missouri Room NEW! Jennifer Kleeschulte at Missouri’s Prairie Garden Trust (MBG) Natives for Small W! Explore the woods, waters, and prairie Spaces (MBG) NE of The Prairie Garden Trust, a 180- Missouri native plants are very hot acre public “nature garden” in central in nurseries—but can you gracefully Missouri. Lorna Domke shares the plant them in a small yard? Cindy beauty of native plants and animals Gilberg will highlight plants that grow found on the site and what it takes well in smaller urban settings for to keep them thriving—through the both sun and shade. She will cover images of renowned photo artist grasses, perennials, shrubs, and Henry Domke. Weather permitting, small trees. students also can tour the Garden’s Tuesday, April 17 own prairie. 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 9 $25 members; $30 nonmembers 10 a.m. to noon Missouri Room $35 members; $42 nonmembers Cindy Gilberg Garden Room Henry and Lorna Domke

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 13 GUIDED GUIDED Geduid Walks & Tours Behind the Scenes: Sacred Seeds Medicinal W NEW! A Production Walking Tour (MBG) LKS & TOURS & LKS Greenhouses (MBG) Take a guided tour through the Where does the Garden start many of Sacred Seeds Sanctuary, a garden the beautiful plants for display each showcasing Native American season? The greenhouse staff grow medicinal plants in their natural thousands of spectacular plants each habitat. Your guide, a curator of season. Horticulturist Elaine Marshall ethnobotany at the Missouri Botanical will walk you through the production Garden, will explain the rich cultural greenhouses explaining how they take history of Native Americans in the cuttings and start seeds for many Missouri region, their traditions of annuals and perennials. Then you will medicinal plant use, and the legacy get a chance to take cuttings from that these cultures have left on some of the Garden’s stock plants and medicine today. take them home to grow in your own Saturday, April 28 10 to 11:30 a.m. garden—a rare treat! $19 members; $23 nonmembers Tuesday, April 17 Meet at Ridgway Visitor Center Ticket 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Counter $30 members; $36 nonmembers Wendy Applequist Meet at Ridgway Visitor Center Ticket Counter Don’t Kill Your Elaine Marshall Perennials! (MBG) Rare Plants and Living Some information about perennial Collection Tour (MBG) maintenance in gardening books Join Andrew Wyatt, Vice President of is inappropriate for the Midwest Horticulture, for a tour of the Garden’s gardener. In this two-hour walking tour plant collections. Focusing on the in the Kemper Center gardens, June current and potential conservation Hutson, Kemper Center Supervisor, will use of the extensive living collections, highlight what to do this season and the tour will cover both behind-the- what not to do for the most popular scenes functions rarely seen by visitors perennials. Tips will include pruning, and look at important specimens common mistakes, mulching, and within the Garden. Andrew will also getting ready for the next season. This share how the Garden’s horticulture is a great opportunity to learn how to plays an increasingly important take care of perennials from the area’s role in plant conservation. The tour top perennial expert. will give you a new perspective Monday, April 30 of the Garden and allow you to 6 to 8 p.m. OR share this important conservation Tuesday, June 26 message with friends and family. 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, April 17 $25 members; $30 nonmembers 10 to 11:30 a.m. Kemper Classroom $19 members; $23 nonmembers June Hutson Meet at Ridgway Visitor Center Ticket Counter Andrew Wyatt 14 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes GUIDED GUIDED Tea on the Terrace (SNR) Behind the Scenes in the May is the perfect time to enjoy the Orchid Greenhouse (MBG) Shaw Nature Reserve’s beautiful Don’t miss this opportunity to view Whitmire Wildflower Garden. A

the orchids the way few have seen. W selection of teas and delectable Babs Wagner will give you a guided A desserts will be served on the tour of the orchid range in the TOURS & LKS Carriage House Terrace, which Garden’s main greenhouses. As you overlooks the wildflower garden. walk through the range, you will learn Tea will be followed by a guided tour helpful tips on how she grows and of the wildflower garden (weather cares for the Garden’s outstanding permitting). Tables will be assigned, orchid collection. Sign up early! so please designate who will be in Space is very limited. your group. Singles will be seated with Monday, May 14 other singles. Dress is casual. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 5 $25 members; $30 nonmembers 2 to 4 p.m. Meet at Ridgway Visitor Center Ticket $30 members; $36 nonmembers Counter Carriage House Blanche Wagner Terri Brandt, Steve Bean and/or Reserve volunteers Historic and Important Behind the Scenes: Trees of the Garden (MBG) Over the past couple of years, Alan Japanese Garden (MBG) Stentz has been researching and Experience this popular after-hours writing descriptions of historic and walking tour in the Japanese Garden important trees in the Garden for the with Senior Horticulturist Greg Garden’s online PlantFinder. In this Cadice and gain a new appreciation walk he will point out those trees for Seiwa-en, the “Garden of Pure, which are believed to be planted Clear Harmony and Peace.” Greg during the life of Henry Shaw and will highlight features of this world- provide a wealth of fascinating famous garden including scenic facts about the origins of several of vistas, teahouse island, and how the interesting and important trees the horticulture staff and volunteers growing in the Garden. A true delight create an overall feeling of serenity for the tree lover! in this special place. Please wear Wednesday, May 16 comfortable shoes for this two-mile- 6 to 8 p.m. long, continuous walk. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Monday, May 7 Meet at Ridgway Visitor Center Ticket OR Counter Tuesday, May 8 Alan Stentz 6 to 8 p.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Meet at Ridgway Visitor Center Ticket Counter Greg Cadice

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 15 GUIDED GUIDED W A LKS & TOURS & LKS

Behind the Scenes Renovated Shaw’s Self-sustaining Linnean House (MBG) Garden and Farm (MBG) Did you know the Linnean House is The Missouri Botanical Garden in its the oldest continuously operating infancy not only served as a place of public greenhouse west of the beauty, but a place of life-sustaining Mississippi River? It has recently been edible plants and flowers. Discover renovated with its camellia collection how the life and times of Henry Shaw replanted and some new specimens produced vegetables and herbs that added. Find out how this conservatory provided food for his city and country was originally used, what happened to home. Learn how the discoveries of the camellias over the winter, and how the mid-1800s helped shape what the renovations have impacted and is known and practiced today. In improved this historic greenhouse. addition to a classroom presentation Tuesday, May 22 of historical photographs, you will 6 to 7:30 p.m. take a short walk to tour Tower Grove $19 members; $23 nonmembers Missouri Room House and Herb Garden. Every Dan Gravens participant will get a free copy of the recently published booklet, Tower Grove House. Saturday, June 30 9 to 11 a.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Priscilla Smith

16 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes ARTS & CRAFTS & ARTS Ars t & Crafts When it comes to artistic inspiration, nature’s wonders never cease. For many budding artists and creative souls, the Garden offers a series of drawing, painting, photography, and craft classes that are all about celebrating, connecting with and caring for nature. Painting and Drawing

Watecolor Rescue (MBG) Why Sketch? (MBG) Lost interest and feeling uninspired Learn to capture the beauty in nature about your art in the cold of winter? on paper. In this class, you’ll learn Are you in an “artistic slump”? Let to see and sketch what you see in the Garden awaken and inspire you the Garden while walking through once again. This is a unique class the seasonal splendor. Jaclyn will for watercolor artists to engage in a show you how to develop basic skills little nature-inspired “art therapy” to through demonstrations and individual jump start your creativity. Bring in instruction. You will develop a sense your problem paintings, and together, of observation and awareness of the we’ll brainstorm ways to fix them. This natural, wondrous world around you. class is for artists of all levels who In event of inclement weather, the have some watercolor experience. class will sketch from live plant still- 8 Fridays: March 2, 9, 16, 23; April 6, 13, lifes in the classroom. 20, 27; no class on March 30 8 Wednesdays; April 4, 11,18, 25, May 2, 9, 9:30 a.m. to noon 16, 23 $180 members; $216 nonmembers 9:30 a.m. to noon Kemper Classroom $180 members; $216 nonmembers Judy Seyfert Kemper Classroom Jacyln Lawson Watercolor Essentials (MBG) The true beauty of watercolor lies The Garden in in its explosion of color every time Watercolor (MBG) water is added to paint. Dramatic Capture the beauty of the Garden effects can be made from a puddle in watercolor while learning new of water and a limited palette of eight techniques and composition skills. colors. In this class, the emphasis Through demonstrations and will be on techniques such as critiques, you will receive individual applying glazes, achieving value and group instruction outdoors when contrast and implementing design weather permits. Beginning and principles. This is a studio class advanced students are welcome. designed to inspire beginners and 8 Tuesdays: April 10, 17, 24; May 1, 8, 15, challenge experienced artists. 22, 29 6 Mondays: March 5, 12, 19: April 2, 9, 16; 9:30 a.m. to noon no class on March 26 $180 members; $216 nonmembers 6:30 to 9 p.m. Missouri Room $135 members; $162 nonmembers Mary Dee Schmidt Garden Room Judy Seyfert

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 17 ARTS & CRAFTS & ARTS Spring: A Wash A Palette of W! W! of Color (MBG) NE Pastels (MBG) NE Inspired by the Garden, you will Enjoy applying lush colors of spring learn to portray the beauty of flowers and summer to paper in this hands- and spring in expressive, colorful on studio class. Pastels, which are watercolor paintings. Judy Seyfert pure pigment held together with a will show you how to achieve color binder, is drawing with color at your harmony through layering of value and fingertips. This medium is immediate, paint. From start to finish, design will forgiving, and exciting. You will learn be emphasized. This unique class will basic techniques through material combine transparent watercolor with demonstrations, as well as individual opaque, allowing for more versatility instruction using still-life of fresh fruit yet still producing luminous paintings. and blooming plants. Materials are This is a studio class. Students will supplied. Some easels will be provided. work from their own photographs or Fridays: June 1, 8, 15 sketches. No beginning watercolor 9:30 a.m. to noon $94 members; $112 nonmembers skills will be taught. Garden Room 6 Saturdays: April 21, 28; May 5, 12, 19; Jacyln Lawson June 2; no class on May 26 9:30 a.m. to noon $113 members; $136 nonmembers Missouri Room Judy Seyfert

Photography Understanding Your Basic Photography (MBG) W! Camera (MBG) NE In this multi-session, hands-on course Understanding the features on your you will have the opportunity to camera can be overwhelming. To develop your skills as a photographer consistently take better images, you and explore the functions of your should understand some of the basic camera. You will learn about functions of your camera and why they composition, lighting, shutter speed, are important. Scott Avetta will review aperture (f-stops), depth of field, and the key functions (settings, ISO, white terminology; all are crucial to taking balance, etc.) that are most useful in exceptional pictures. The course the field and how to adjust them. Bring is appropriate for both novice and your camera and manual to class. intermediate students. Participants $25 members; $30 nonmembers should bring a 35 mm camera (either Scott Avetta film or digital) to the first session. Monday, March 19 6 Wednesdays: March 21, 28; April 4, 11, 7 to 9 p.m. 18, 25; field trip April 15, 9 to 11 a.m. Missouri Room 7 to 9 p.m. OR $180 members; $216 nonmembers Tuesday, March 20 Missouri Room 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Scott Avetta Kemper Classroom

18 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes ARTS & CRAFTS & ARTS Daytime Basic Close-up Photography (MBG) Photography (MBG) In this intermediate course Scott Improve your photography skills by Avetta will discuss subject selection learning the key and explore its many possibilities for functions of your dramatic results. Learn to maximize camera and how your equipment and utilize other to use them to close-up options (close-up rings, your advantage. extension tubes, etc.) to improve Throughout this your photographs. You will learn multi-session, the critical element of light and hands-on options to create a scene with session, Scott reflectors and/or diffusers. The Avetta will use of a tripod and cable release/ spend time on remote is highly recommended. composition, A macro lens is not required. lighting, aperture, May 9, 16, 23; field trip: May 20, 7 to 11 a.m. 7 to 9 p.m. shutter speed, $138 members; $166 nonmembers and ISO settings in the classroom Botanical Room and then apply them in the field. The Scott Avetta course is appropriate for both novice Color and Composition and intermediate students. Participants W! should bring a 35 mm camera (either of Photography (MBG) NE film or digital) to the classes. Throughout this multi-session, hands- 5 Tuesdays: March 27; April 3, 10, 17, 24 on series, Scott Avetta will discuss 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the importance of composition and $170 members; $204 nonmembers color. You will take multiple trips Kemper Classroom Scott Avetta into the Garden to photograph a variety of subjects including the Seeing Nature through Chinese lanterns. You will see how the Lens (SNR) small changes can make dramatic Join professional photographer differences in your image. The course Scott Avetta for this intermediate is appropriate for both novice and level weekend workshop that intermediate students. You should will include field sessions and bring your 35 mm camera to class. classroom instruction/discussion. 4 Tuesdays: May 15, 22, 29; June 5 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Explore the heart of Shaw Nature $165 members; $198 nonmembers Reserve as we photograph the Missouri Room areas (wetlands, woodlands, glades, Scott Avetta and prairies) of greatest potential based on subject and weather conditions. We will discuss the importance of subject selection, S hee “Nig t Magic: Lantern composition, and lighting (weather). Festival Photography” Saturday and Sunday; April 28–29 on page 4! 7 to 11 a.m. $80 members; $100 nonmembers Meet at the Visitor Center Scott Avetta

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 19 ARTS & CRAFTS & ARTS Traveling with Photography Each participant will submit a disk Overnight (SNR) of 20–30 images that relate to some Spend two nights and three days with aspect of travel. The workshop will photographer Stewart D. Halperin include review and critique of each examining “how we prepare our body, participant’s images, with extensive mind, and camera gear when we set lectures and viewing of Stewart’s off to see the world.” For more than 45 images as well. In addition, there will years Stewart has traveled the world be a chance to review photos taken with his camera. He has covered six around Shaw Nature Reserve during continents and more than 95 countries. the workshop. Accommodations will be From the rainforests of Tanzania to dormitory style in the Reserve’s historic the canals of Venice, his bold images log lodges. 5 p.m. Friday, July 13 to convey a deep sense of place. This 2 p.m. Sunday, July 15 intimate and intense workshop will $325 members; $390 nonmembers immerse you into all the elements that Adlyne Freund Center go into making your travel experience Stewart Halperin and travel images reach another level. Botanical Crafts

Covered Gourd Dish (MBG) on what lavenders dry well and the Man’s first dishes were made of best time to pick them. All materials gourds. Here is your opportunity to are provided. create your own piece of history—a Saturday, March 10 covered gourd dish. You will complete 10 a.m. to noon $45 members; $54 nonmembers the cleaning of the small gourd’s Beaumont Room interior using primitive as well as Deborah Nathe modern tools. Decorating techniques Ahhh—Relax! Lavender including drawing, painting, markers, W! and wood burning will be covered. Aromatherapy (MBG) NE Bring your favorite tools, supplies, Aromatherapy is the art of using and design ideas to supplement those natural aromatic substances provided. You will get instructions for harvested from nature’s rich bounty finishing the project at home. for well-being. Lavender is generally Saturday, March 10 regarded as the most versatile 10 a.m. to noon therapeutic herb. Drawing on research $37 members; $44 nonmembers Botanical Room and clinical studies, this in-depth class Lynne and Patrick Slack will explore all aspects of lavender for multiple purposes. Each student will Lavender Wreath (MBG) receive a lovely little bottle of lavender Heavenly fragrance will surround you essential oil to take home. when you construct your own lavender Saturday, April 14 wreath. Deborah Nathe will bring 10 a.m. to noon her locally grown dried lavender to $25 members; $30 nonmembers Botanical Room make these “scentuous” circles on a Deborah Nathe 6-inch grapevine wreath base, simply decorated with a pretty bow. As you make your wreath, she will share tips

20 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes Basket Making (SNR) store sweaters, how to make yarn CRAFTS & ARTS Create your own basket by learning from t-shirts, and creative ways to use basic weaving techniques and using plastic grocery bags and other material natural materials. By mid-March for knit and crochet projects. Just in you will need to choose between time for Earth Day, this demonstration making a gathering, wine, berry, or class will inspire you to look at Cherokee heart basket (pictures will be materials in a new way. available via email or land mail). Bring Saturday, April 21 a sack lunch, wire cutters or heavy 9 to 11 a.m. $25 members; $30 nonmembers scissors, an awl, a dozen spring-type Meet in Kemper Center for Home Gardening, clothespins, a large towel, a cloth Upper Level (flexible) tape measure, a pencil, and Suzanne Hirth a container for soaking reed. All other materials provided. Basket Making 101: NEW! Saturday, April 14 Chair-side Basket (MBG) 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This spring, replace a plastic bag $40 members; $48 nonmembers with a nice chair-side basket. This Carriage House Linda Brown beginning class will introduce you to the ins and outs of weaving with Stephanie Arnold’s easy to follow Nature-inspired W! Spa Day (MBG) NE directions. All weaving materials Grab a girlfriend (or two) and leave your supplied. A tool list of household worries at home as you join us for an materials needed will be included with evening of complete herbal relaxation, registration. thanks to the Webster Groves Herb Saturday, April 28 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Society. We’ll drink a little wine, have $60 members; $72 nonmembers some yummy snacks, and make our Botanical Room own herbal “spa” products to keep Stephanie Arnold the relaxation going at home. A great excuse to spend a few hours with a Nature Knit and NEW! girlfriend, and you’re guaranteed to feel Crochet with better afterward. Hint: chocolate may Recycled Yarn (MBG) be involved! Knit or crochet in the serenity of the Saturday, April 14 Garden with an earth-friendly recycled 10 a.m. to noon cotton yarn. Choose from either a knit $30 members; $36 nonmembers Kemper Classroom or crochet Garden Trellis Cowl pattern, Cheryl Rafert designed just for this session, that will accent your summer wardrobe. Basic Recycling Yarn W! knowledge of knit and purl stitches from Old Sweaters NE (knitting) or chain, single crochet, and Other Crafts (MBG) and double crochet stitches (crochet) If you’re interested in starting a cool are required. Yarn recommendations craft project using recycled materials, provided with materials list. then join St. Louis needle artist Saturday, May 5 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Suzanne Hirth who will walk you $30 members; $36 nonmembers through a hands-on demonstration on Meet in Kemper Center for Home Gardening, how to recycle yarn from second-hand Upper Level Suzanne Hirth

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 21 ARTS & CRAFTS & ARTS Luminaria (MBG) Discover Dry Needle W! W! Bring more light to patio or NE Felting (MBG) NE garden with your own clay Needle felting is a simple, creative luminaria. Clay artist Mary Henderson technique where soft strands of wool will teach the basic steps to carve are applied to material with a special your own luminaria out of a wheel- tool. Felting can be used to embellish thrown form. All materials provided. clothing, make accessories, and create Please wear older clothing or bring three-dimensional pieces. Create your an apron. No previous experience own piece using wool from a local necessary. Fired luminaries will be ranch. Base fabric and nature-inspired available for pickup at the Kemper pattern will be provided, along with a Center after May 30. needle felting kit. Monday, May 14 Saturday, May 19 7 to 9 p.m. 9 a.m. to noon $35 members; $42 nonmembers $45 members; $54 nonmembers Missouri Room Meet in Kemper Center for Home Gardening, Mary Henderson Upper Level Suzanne Hirth Basket Making 101: Market Basket (MBG) W! Fairy Gardening: Not NE NEW! Just in time for the farmer’s Just for Kids! (MBG) market season, learn to weave this Science has proven that everything functional market basket. This sturdy is cuter when it’s tiny. Which makes basket features a filled bottom fairy gardening a great class for and swing handle. Considered a adults trying to channel their inner beginner’s basket, but also would child! We’ll take a look at some make a great basket for those who sample fairy gardens for inspiration, haven’t woven for a while. This basket then you get to create your own. incorporates several reed sizes, Fairy gardens will be planted in along with basic weaving techniques. containers, with each little garden Weaving materials supplied. Leave getting its own plants, an arbor, a those plastic bags at home this May. chair, a teeny house, and of course—a Saturday, May 19 fairy. Fee includes all supplies. Class 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. sponsored by the fairy-gardening $60 members; $72 nonmembers Botanical Room fanatics at Sugar Creek Gardens. Stephanie Arnold Saturday, June 2 10 a.m. to noon $30 members; $36 nonmembers Garden Room Kim Reiss

22 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes FOOD & COOKING & FOOD Fod o & Cooking

Creating and sharing a meal made with food you’ve grown yourself can be incredibly gratifying. And if you’re not harvesting your own ingredients quite yet, just knowing your food, including its origins and its attributes, is a great start. Acknowledging how central food and food choices are to our connections with plants, people, and the planet, the Garden offers unique culinary classes designed to inspire and nourish. Plant Inspired Meals and Ideas

Meatless Mondays (MBG) W! Be healthier and reduce your NE carbon footprint by eating meatless at least one day a week. But meatless doesn’t mean boring! In this class, you’ll be treated to a cooking display and samples of a leek and potato soup; “crab cakes;” a radish, sunflower, and pea shoots salad; and rhubarb crumble. Go to www. meatlessmondays.com to learn more about how you can make a difference through your diet. Tuesday, April 10 7 to 9 p.m. $35 members; $42 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Stacey Schamberger and Nicole Weiss

A Spot of Spring Tea (MBG) Afternoon tea is served on a Missouri Edible Plants W! W! regular basis at Buckingham NE of Spring (MBG) NE Palace, and who can blame Learn about Missouri edible them? It’s the perfect way to turn back spring plants and how to identify and time and enjoy the company of those prepare them. The class will include a you cherish. With spring in the air, cooking demonstration, recipes, and Jane Muscroft will share with you her a short tour of the gardens to identify favorite tea-time favorites, befitting the edible plants in their environment. You season—finger sandwiches, scones, will sample several dishes, including clotted cream, homemade strawberry Dr. Wyse Jackson’s dandelion syrup. jam, framboises St. George (raspberry You will leave with a new appreciation mousse), and tea cake. And who of the tastiness of common plants you knows? Maybe a royal Corgi or two see every day! will join us. Saturday, April 21 Wednesday, April 11 9 a.m. to noon 7 to 9 p.m. $35 members; $42 nonmembers $35 members; $42 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Kemper Classroom Dr. Peter Wyse Jackson and Jane Muscroft Dr. Catrina Adams

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 23 FOOD & COOKING & FOOD Creative Quinoa seasonal strawberry mousse in phyllo W! Cuisine (MBG) NE cups. It’s a meal that would make any What is quinoa, how do you cook mother proud (and hungry)! Thursday, May 3 it, and how do you pronounce it? 7 to 9 p.m. (KEEN-wah) This much underused $35 members; $42 nonmembers seed or grain is a staple food in the Kemper Classroom Andes and can add interest and Vicki Bensinger W! protein to your own everyday meals. Attention White NE It’s wheat-free, gluten-free, and provides a nice alternative to pasta, Wine Lovers! (MBG) bread, and rice in your menus. Learn Are you in a white wine rut, ordering and sample the following recipes: the same glass of Chardonnay or Pinot Quinoa salad with feta; grilled Grigio over and over? Expand your lemongrass chicken with red quinoa wine horizons and palate with Certified and vegetables; cumin-scented Sommelier Jennifer Johnson as she quinoa and black rice; corn, black explores alternative white wines and beans, and quinoa salad; and quinoa new white wine releases. Impress muffins with peaches and pecans. your family and friends with your new, Tuesday, April 24 expanded wine repertoire. Cheese and 7 to 9 p.m. crackers also will be served. $35 members; $42 nonmembers Tuesday, May 22 Kemper Classroom 7 to 9 p.m. Lana Shepek $40 members; $48 nonmembers Kemper Classroom The History of Chocolate (MBG) Jennifer Johnson, C.S.W. Calling all chocoholics! Learn about W! the history of chocolate, how this Get to Know NE decadent treat is made, and the Your Favorite various types of chocolate. Numerous Foods: Spices (CBEC) chocolates will be sampled throughout Discover the long and varied history the program, plus you will receive of spices and their many uses. treats to take home. For the true These versatile seasonings aren’t chocolate lover in everyone! Designed just for food but have also been for adults only. used in medicine, religious rituals, Tuesday, May 1 cosmetics and as preservatives. 7 to 9 p.m. $35 members; $42 nonmembers Head chocolatier Brian Pelletier of Kemper Classroom Kakao Chocolate will tempt your taste Brian Pelletier and Kim Petzing buds with an overview of a variety of spices and spice combinations— Cooking for Mom on including many that he uses in his own Mother’s Day (MBG) chocolates. And, as always, samples Treat your mother to a fabulous, will be provided. home-cooked meal on her special Tuesday, May 22 day. The mouth-watering menu starts 7 to 8:30 p.m. with a wild rice salad complete with $24 members; $29 nonmembers Commerce Bank Center for Science raspberries and strawberries; roasted Education—Room 126 asparagus; stuffed free-range chicken Brian Pelletier breast; candied Missouri pecans; and

24 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes FOOD & COOKING & FOOD Cooking with Your Preserving the Harvest (MBG) W! Garden’s Bounty (MBG) NE Deliver the healthful wealth of your Are you lucky enough to have a garden to your family’s table all year vegetable garden that produces more long! Leasburt, Missouri Master than you can eat? Now you won’t Gardener, teacher and veteran have to inundate your neighbors and preserver, Laura Friz, will demonstrate friends with your veggies surplus. basics and share expert tips covering Here’s a class that will demonstrate canning, drying, and freezing all types how to cook some amazing summer of fresh produce—and she’ll whip up dishes to capitalize on your garden’s a batch of microwave pickles! After bounty. Join Sassafras Chef Margaret the class, stay and enjoy the sights Rodenhouse as she whips up borsch, and wonders of the Missouri Botanical corn and shrimp soup, ceviche, Garden’s Chinese Lantern Festival gazpacho, and cucumber soup. Keep on the Garden grounds. Class fees those veggies coming! include admission to the festival. Wednesday, May 30 Thursday, August 9 7 to 9 p.m. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $35 members; $42 nonmembers $40 members; $46 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Kemper Classroom Margaret Rodenhouse Jean Ponzi and Laura Friz Cooking with Roses Get to Know Your Favorite W! and Lavender (MBG) NE Food: Chocolate, Field Trip Did you know that the rose is the 2012 to Kakao Chocolate (off-site) Herb of the Year? What better way to Discover not only where your celebrate than by eating! Sassafras chocolate comes from, but see (and Café chef Margaret Rodenhouse will smell) the actual process first-hand! whip up some dishes using organically We’ll meet at St. Louis-based Kakao grown roses and lavender, (another Chocolate where head chocolatier herb that never goes out of style). Brian Pelletier will discuss the current You’ll get to watch her create a rose practices and state of the chocolate cheesecake; lavender panna cotta; industry, particularly relating to and infused cordials, lemonade, and sustainability. Afterwards, we’ll tour honey—plus sample them all. Give the shop and finish with some hands- your garden club something to talk on chocolate fun! about—cooking with roses! Tuesday, August 21 Saturday, June 2 7 to 8:30 p.m. 10 a.m. to noon $24 members; $29 nonmembers $35 members; $42 nonmembers Kakao Chocolate, 7272 Manchester Road, Kemper Classroom Maplewood, MO 63143 Margaret Rodenhouse Brian Pelletier

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Fresh and Fruity W! Easter Desserts (MBG) NE Join Sassafras Café chef Margaret Rodenhouse as she shows us how to whip up some classic desserts that will charm your Easter guests, including strawberry rhubarb pie, coconut cream pie, lemon meringue, and carrot cake. (We have to include carrot cake to make the Easter Bunny happy!) Expand your dessert horizons and enjoy some yummy samples in this sure-to-be decadent class. Sharpen Your Knife Wednesday, April 4 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Skills (MBG) $35 members; $42 nonmembers Learn how efficient cutting techniques Kemper Classroom and knife use can make the art of food Margaret Rodenhouse preparation safer and more enjoyable. Secrets of Zia’s The instructors will cover a range of NEW! topics, including knife selection, care, Restaurant sharpening, cutting techniques, and Kitchen (MBG) safety. Ample time will be allowed for Experience the wonderful food of Zia’s you to practice the skills of slicing, restaurant with Chef Travis Thompson. dicing, julienning, chopping, and He will make eggplant parmesan, mincing. Bring a paring knife, a chef’s Zia’s house salad, pasta tutto mare, knife (if you have one) and an apron, if and spiedini prosciutto. For dessert, you wish. Designed for adults only. sample classic cannoli. Each student Tuesday, April 3 will receive a copy of the book Saint 7 to 9:30 p.m. Louis Italians: the Hill and Beyond. $25 members; $30 nonmembers Wednesday, April 18 Kemper Classroom 7 to 9 p.m. Linda Whitten and Glenn Kopp $57 members; $68 nonmembers Kemper Classroom Travis Thompson

26 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes GREEN LI GREEN Gren e Living Rain Barrel Workshop (CBEC) Backyard Chickens (CBEC)

Discover the benefits and logistics Interested in keeping a few chickens V I

of having a rain barrel at your home. in the backyard? Raising chickens is a NG Members of the River des Peres fun and exciting journey in any setting! Watershed Coalition will conduct Join Jessica Stafos of CoopLa for a brief introductory discussion on this introductory session on how to placement, construction, and other raise and keep chickens in urban and considerations followed by a hands- suburban environments. Learn about on session where participants will the benefits of chickens, resources for make their own barrel to take home! coop building and hen selection, local Cost is per project. ordinances, and more. Thursday, March 15 Tuesday, April 3 6:30 to 8 p.m. Or OR Wednesday, July 11 Saturday, March 17 7 to 8:30 p.m. 9 to 10:30 a.m. $24 members; $29 nonmembers $50 members; $60 nonmembers Commerce Bank Center for Science Commerce Bank Center for Science Education—Room 125 Education—Room 125 Jessica Stafos Members of River des Peres Watershed Coalition and Kim Petzing Composting Expanded: Composting Expanded: Bokashi Buckets (CBEC) Tired of throwing out all of those food Worm Bins (CBEC) scraps? Consider composting in a Already got an outdoor bin? In an more creative way: bokashi buckets! indoor vermicomposting system, In a space-saving bokashi system, worms process your food scraps to effective microorganisms transform all produce a natural fertilizer and soil kinds of kitchen waste into a nutrient- conditioner that your houseplants rich soil amendment. Each registered will love. Each registered participant participant will make their own unique will make their own unique bin during bin during this hands-on workshop. these hands-on workshop. Many Many thanks to the St. Louis Jefferson thanks to the St. Louis Jefferson Solid Waste Management District for Solid Waste Management District for making this program available at a making this program available at a lower cost to our participants. lower cost to our participants. Thursday, April 5 Thursday, March 29 6:30 to 8 p.m. 6:30 to 8 p.m. $45 members; $54 nonmembers $45 members; $54 nonmembers Commerce Bank Center for Science Commerce Bank Center for Science Education—Room 125 Education—Room 125 Katy Mike Smaistrla Katy Mike Smaistrla

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 27 GREEN LI GREEN Rain Barrel Workshop (off-site) Sustainability 101: Your Discover the benefits and logistics Efforts Matter (CBEC) of having a rain barrel at your home. This overview of the what-and-why of Members of the River des Peres green living covers energy efficiency, V Watershed Coalition will conduct reducing-reusing-recycling and I NG a brief introductory discussion on composting, water conservation, placement, construction, and other indoor air quality and avoiding considerations followed by a hands- “greenwashing.” Participants will leave on session where participants will this lively talk feeling good about make their own barrel to take home! sustainable habits they already have— Price is per project. Please dress for with practical ideas to grow greener! the weather. This class is held at The Wednesday, May 16 Green Center 8025 Blackberry Ave. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26 $16 members; $20 nonmembers 6:30 to 8 p.m. Commerce Bank Center for Science $50 members; $60 nonmembers Education—Room 119 The Green Center Classroom Jean Ponzi Members of River des Peres Watershed Coalition and Kim Petzing Greening Your Spring: Upcycled Flowers (MBG) From coiled paper roses to recycled egg carton daisies, you will explore the colorful world of green crafting. Tammy Palmier will demonstrate a variety of techniques as well as show you fun ideas to think about reusing everyday objects in a different way. You will have the opportunity to make Lotus Flower: your own floral jewelry box using the Recycling in Its W! techniques demonstrated. NE Tuesday, April 24 Prettiest Form (MBG) 7 to 9 p.m. Inspired by the Garden’s flowering $30 members; $36 nonmembers lotus, construct your own flower Missouri Room from a recycled aluminum can. Tammy Palmier Kate Freeman will cover sanding, inks, and embellishment with a stylus to achieve your own one- Ch eck Out our New of-a-kind lotus. Your friends will Permaculture Training never guess it was once a can! Workshop on page 5 Saturday, June 2 10 a.m. to noon $30 members; $36 nonmembers Botanical Room Kate Freeman

28 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes NATURE STUDY NATURE Ntua re Study Basics of Birding (MBG) Wildflower Identification If you enjoy the outdoors and want to & Ecology (SNR) learn more about finding, observing, This course will focus on identification, and identifying birds, this course is relationships and habitats of for you. Though primarily aimed at wildflowers and native grasses of the beginners, it can also be a refresher season. Beginners, as well as serious course for students who have had students of wildflowers, will increase some experience. The four evening their knowledge and appreciation of classes will be devoted mainly to the rich floral diversity of the Nature learning the local birds, including Reserve’s woods, prairie and wetland. songs and calls, as well as visual Come ready for moderate hiking with marks. Some time will also be spent notebook in hand! Sign up for any or discussing field guides, binoculars, all sessions. Price is per session. organizations, and where to go birding April 7, 28, May 26, 9 a.m. to noon; around St. Louis. The field trips will visit June 30, July 28, or August 25, 8:30 to two good areas with a great diversity of 11:30 a.m. spring birds. You will be responsible for $16 members; $20 nonmembers Meet at the SNR Visitor Center your own transportation and lunch and Dr. James Trager should expect hikes of up to two miles. 4 Mondays: March 26, April 2, 16, 23 Spring Wildflower Walk(SNR) 7 to 9 p.m. Join these informal, educational walks 2 field trips: Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 29; Approx. 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. through the colorful spring season. $180 members; $216 nonmembers The Nature Reserve’s excellent trail Missouri Room system, winding through upland and William Rowe bottomland forest, is an ideal place to enjoy ephemeral spring wildflowers (SNR) Bluebells Abound! and other natural wonders. Past In the Reserve’s Meramec River participants have found that bringing bottomland a sea of Virginia bluebells a picnic lunch can be a worthwhile blooms each spring. They are off treat to enjoy after the walk (optional). the beaten path, but we will provide Registration encouraged; walk-ins guides and transportation on SNR’s welcome. Pay on arrival at Visitor “Wilderness Wagon” to get you as Center. Price is per walk. close as possible. You will still have to April 10, 17, 24, May 8, 15, 22 walk ¼ to 1 mile depending on road 9:30 a.m. to noon conditions. Wear sturdy shoes. A $6 members; $ 8 nonmembers sweet treat follows your hike. Please Meet at the SNR Visitor Center register in advance and pay on arrival Dick and Susie Russell with Dr. James Trager at Visitor Center. Thursday, April 5 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. $8 members; $10 nonmembers Meet at the SNR Visitor Center Helen McCallie, Steve Bean, and SNR volunteers

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 29 NATURE STUDY NATURE Morning Bird Walk (SNR) Moonlight Wine & Cheese This early morning walk during Night Hike (SNR) W! the height of spring migration is Climb aboard our Wilderness NE designed to help you see and learn Wagon for a short trip to the Maritz about the many bird species at Shaw Trail House where we’ll start our hike. Nature Reserve. Both beginning and Under the light of the moon we will intermediate birders are welcome. take a leisurely 1-1/2 mile walk along Bring binoculars, be prepared to hike woodland and prairie trails, learning a few miles over uneven ground, and about the nighttime environment along dress for the weather. Come to one or the way. During the walk we will make all of the walks; each will be different. a brief stop to enjoy a glass of wine Registration encouraged; walk-ins (or non-alcoholic beverage) and some welcome. Pay on arrival at Visitor crackers and cheese as the moon Center. Price is per walk. rises over the prairie. Dress for the April 18 or 25 or May 2 weather and wear appropriate hiking 8 to 10:30 a.m. $4 members; $6 nonmembers shoes. This walk fills quickly—prompt Meet at the SNR Visitor Center registration is suggested. Don Hays Friday, May 4 7:30 to 10 p.m. Fly Fishing for Beginners (SNR) $15 members; $18 nonmembers This class is for men and women ages Meet at the SNR Visitor Center Lydia Toth 16 and up. Join members of the Ozark Fly Fishers for one of these beginner Missouri’s Wild Mushrooms: classes. Learn about the equipment Hunting, Identifying, needed to get started and basic fly tying and rod casting skills. Practice and Cooking (SNR) catch and release at Pinetum Lake Ever been out in the woods and where fishing is not normally allowed. wondered if that mushroom is All fishing equipment is provided. edible? In this class you will learn to Bring a hat, sunscreen, and eye identify a few common poisonous protection (such as sunglasses). mushrooms and lots of edibles—first Sunday, April 22 in the classroom and then in the field. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wear appropriate clothing and be Or prepared to walk a couple of miles 1 to 5 p.m. over uneven ground. This class will be $20 members; $24 nonmembers Carriage House taught by Maxine Stone, the author of Ozark Fly Fishers “Missouri’s Wild Mushrooms,” which is an excellent field guide published by the Missouri Department of Conservation. Saturday, May 5 1 to 4 p.m. $20 members; $24 nonmembers Meet at the SNR Visitor Center Maxine Stone

30 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes Discover Nature: Bangs STUDY NATURE & Bows (SNR and Jay Henges Shooting Range, MDC) For women ages 18 and older. Have you ever wanted to fire a shotgun? Do you have an interest in archery? If so, we have a great class for you. Our “Bangs & Bows” class is designed to introduce participants to trap shooting and archery in a safe and welcoming environment. Instruction will be provided by Missouri Department of Conservation personnel. The trap shooting part of the class will take place at Henges Range (MDC) and the archery half will be held at Shaw Nature Reserve’s Freund Center. Butterfly Field ID (BH) Participants will need to provide their Come outside with us to find and own lunch and transportation between identify butterflies in the field. A staff the two sites (about 17 miles apart entomologist will provide identification on I-44). The shotgun portion of this tips for many common Missouri event is not open to participants who butterflies and their caterpillars, then are pregnant. we venture outside to see how many Saturday, May 19 we can spot. 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, August 11 $35 members; $42 nonmembers 1 to 3 p.m. Adlyne Freund Center @ SNR (archery) or Jay $25 members; $30 nonmembers Henges Shooting Range (trap shooting) Lopata Learning Lab Conrad Mallady and MDC Staff Chris Hartley and Butterfly House staff

Wild Edibles (SNR) Learn to identify some of the common seasonal wild edibles that you can find in Missouri. This class will include safety tips for foraging plants, keys to identification and a hike to let you practice identifying wild edibles in their environment. You will have the opportunity to sample a variety of raw and prepared wild foods. Sunday, May 20 1 to 4 p.m. $16 members; $20 nonmembers Carriage House Dr. Catrina Adams

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 31 HORTICULTURE FOR HEALTH & & HEALTH FOR HORTICULTURE Hultuortic re for Health & Well-being At the Missouri Botanical Garden, we believe the quality of your life is directly related to the connection you have with the natural world. As a place of seasonal beauty and serene surroundings, the Garden provides a spectacular setting for moderate exercise and unique ways to manage the stresses in your life.

Stay Strong, Stay Healthy: Monthly Trail W! For Seniors (MBG) Fun Run (SNR) NE Enjoy the beauty of the Garden The third Saturday of each month during this 10-week strength training at 8 a.m., sign in at Shaw Nature program for seniors. Light weights Reserve’s Visitor Center and pick will be used to increase strength and up your map for the day. The run W improve balance. Weather permitting, distances will vary from 3 to 10 miles. E

LL-BEING the program may take place outdoors The pace will be self-determined, in the Garden. A participation form will allowing for stops and time to look, need to be completed prior to class. listen, and converse. The distances for March 7, 14, 21, 28 each monthly run will be available the April 4, 11, 18, 25 week prior on the Reserve’s Facebook May 2, 9 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. page. After several visits you will have $54 members; $64 nonmembers run most of the trails and made new Garden Room/Garden Grounds friends. Registration encouraged; walk- Mary Wissmann MS, RD, LD ins welcome. Pay on arrival at Visitor Center. Price is per walk. Stay Strong, W! Third Saturday of each month, Stay Healthy: For NE March through August 8 a.m. Seniors Advanced (MBG) $1 members; $6 (includes admission) Enjoy the beauty of the Garden nonmembers during this 10-week strength training Meet at SNR Visitor Center program for seniors. This program Matt Steen and Kelsey Vollmer will build on the fitness base acquired from the beginning Stay Strong, Stay Healthy class, adding new and more complex exercises. Light weights will be used to increase strength and improve balance. Weather permitting, the program may take place outdoors in the Garden. A participation form will need to be completed prior to class. March 7, 14, 21, 28 April 4, 11, 18, 25 May 2, 9 10 to 11 a.m. $54 members; $64 nonmembers Garden Room/Garden Grounds Mary Wissmann MS, RD, LD

32 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes De-stressing with & HEALTH FOR HORTICULTURE Flowers (MBG) Take time for yourself! De-stress while arranging beautiful flowers of the season. 10 to 11:30 a.m. $18 members; $21 nonmembers Garden Room Jennifer Smith De-stressing with Flowers Early Spring Arrangement Friday, March 16 De-stressing with Flowers Earth Day Arrangement Friday, April 20 W

De-stressing with Flowers Meditations in the E LL-BEING Mother’s Day Arrangement Garden (MBG) Friday, May 11 Explore the treasures of the Garden Seasonal Fitness Walks (MBG) through the senses during this Many of us miss the beautiful, four-week program. Learn Mindful ever-changing seasonal blooms Meditations to explore the Garden in the Garden. Join us on a once through its sounds, sights, textures, a month walk with a focus on and smells. Practice progressive fitness as we journey through the relaxation and breathing exercises Garden. Dress for the weather and to help clear the mind of its chatter. wear your walking shoes. Bring a Cultivate inner peace, restore water bottle to keep hydrated. emotional balance, and deepen your 10 to 11 a.m. connection to the beauty of nature. $6 members; $7 nonmembers April 13, 20, 27 and May 4 Meet at Ridgway Ticket Counter 9:30 to 11 a.m. Donald Frisch $75 members; $ 90 nonmembers Garden Room/Garden Grounds Early Spring Fitness Walk Rhonda Leifheit Monday, March 19 April Flowers Fitness Walk Monday, April 16 May Flowers Fitness Walk Monday, May 14

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 33 HORTICULTURE FOR HEALTH & & HEALTH FOR HORTICULTURE Wednesday Walkers (SNR) Each Wednesday, sign in at the Visitor Center, grab a map, and then gather nearby to meet the other Wednesday Walkers. Each walk will average 1 1/2 to 2 hours, allowing time to stop, look, Dog Days of Summer (SNR) listen, and converse. At the end of Take your favorite canine companion 9 weeks you will have hiked most of for a nice long walk led by Shaw SNR’s trails and made new friends. Nature Reserve staff starting at the

W The final walk is called “Reward Reserve’s Freund Center. This is a E Wednesday” and includes a potluck rare opportunity to spend time with LL-BEING gathering. Registration encouraged; your pooch at a natural area where walk-ins welcome. Pay on arrival at dogs are not normally allowed. Your Visitor Center. Price is per walk. four legged friend must be socialized Every Wednesday in April and May (nice to all other dogs and people), 10 to 11:30 a.m. remain on a 6-foot leash at all times $1 members; $6 (includes admission) and you must pick up and properly nonmembers Meet at the SNR Visitor Center dispose of all waste. Your dog must Steve Bean be up-to-date on vaccinations. Please bring a copy of vaccination Healing Grief in Nature (SNR) record the day of class. Please be This one-day retreat explores sure to include the weight of your the healing that comes from NEW! dog when you register for this class. examining grief in natural Friday, June 22 settings such as Shaw Nature Reserve. 7 to 9 p.m. By exploring grief and nature, as $6 members; $8 nonmembers Adlyne Freund Center well as the nature of grief, we learn Lydia Toth, Karen Bryan, with other Shaw concepts and techniques that help us Nature Reserve staff and volunteers to better cope and integrate the grief experience into our daily lives. The goal is to promote healing and a greater sense of well-being. This class will be led by author and counselor Thomas Nadelin who has been working in grief, bereavement, and hospice for more than 15 years. Saturday, April 28 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. $50 members; $60 nonmembers Adlyne Freund Center Thomas Nadelin

34 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes YOUTH & FAMILY PROGRAMS FAMILY & YOUTH Youth & Family Programs Aes g 2–6 In addition to encouraging positive outdoor nature experiences, our expertly designed programs for the youngest of children are also excellent ways to prepare them for preschool and kindergarten.

Strollerobics (MBG) Little Sprouts: Spring Work out at the Garden with trained Series (MBG) fitness instructors! Strollerobics For ages 2–3. Learn about plants (eight-week series) is a fun workout and nature with your toddler during for all fitness levels. Participants push this seven-week series. Each session strollers along the Garden’s mostly includes indoor, hands-on activities, flat paths, stopping to do cardio and songs, stories, snacks and a walk in toning exercises. Your children will the Garden. This spring we will visit a enjoy the Garden’s sights and sounds special garden each week, including while you get a great workout and the Climatron, Sensory Garden, socialize with other parents! Kemper Vegetable Garden and Prairie 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Garden. Price includes one child and $52 members; $62 nonmembers Garden Grounds one adult. MBG Staff 10 to 11:30 a.m. $98 members; $118 nonmembers Strollerobics—Tuesday Mornings Botanical Room April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22 Kelly Wehrheim Strollerobics—Tuesday Evenings Spring Monday Series 6-7 p.m. Mondays, April 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21 April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22 Spring Tuesday Series Strollerobics—Wednesday Tuesdays, April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22 Mornings Spring Wednesday Series April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2, 9, 16, 23 Wednesdays, April 11, 18, 25, Strollerobics—Thursday Mornings May 2, 9, 16, 23 April 5, 12, 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24 Strollerobics—Friday Mornings April 6, 13, 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25

Take a Shot! Kids Photo Contest (SNR) Budding young photographers and nature lovers, ages 14 and under, are eligible to enter this photo contest co-sponsored by the Missouri Nature and Environmental Photographers (MoNEP) and Shaw Nature Reserve. The contest has four nature-related categories with three winners in each. All photos must be taken at Shaw Nature Reserve between March 1 and June 15, 2012. For contest rules and entry form, visit www.shawnature.org

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 35 YOUTH & FAMILY PROGRAMS FAMILY & YOUTH Little Sprouts: Summer Exploring by Using Your Senses Series (MBG) Come and explore Shaw Nature For ages 2–3. Learn about plants Reserve using your five senses. We’ll and nature with your toddler during make a scent sack, find the colors of this four-week series. Each session the rainbow, look for insects, listen includes indoor, hands-on activities, for wildlife, and taste what nature has songs, stories, snacks and a walk in to offer. Tuesday, April 3 the Garden. This summer, we will use our senses to explore a new part of Blooming Fun! the Garden each week. Price included Join us as we journey along and one child and one adult explore the Whitmire Wildflower 10 to 11:30 a.m. Garden. We will look for signs of $56 members; $67 nonmembers spring and all the fun changes that Botanical Room take place in the garden. You will be Kelly Wehrheim able to take a little bit of spring home Summer Monday Series with you. Mondays, June 4, 11, 18, 25 Tuesday, May 1

Summer Tuesday Series Garden Buds (MBG) Tuesdays, June 5, 12, 19, 26 For ages 4–6. Discover the amazing Summer Wednesday Series world of plants with your preschooler Wednesdays, June 6, 13, 20, 27 in Garden Buds! Price includes one child and one adult. Register by (SNR) Little Acorns March 5 for three or more Garden For ages 3–5. Each class will include Buds classes, and your child will hands-on activities, a story, snack, receive a free t-shirt and journal! and a craft. Little Acorns classes are 10 to 11:30 a.m. an excellent way to help prepare your $14 members; $17 nonmembers child for pre-school or kindergarten! Botanical Room Price includes one child and one adult. Kelly Wehrheim 10 a.m. to noon Tropical Treats $14 members; $17 nonmembers Carriage House Did you know that many of our Karen Bryan yummy treats come from plants in the tropical rainforest? Come along It Looks Like Spilled Milk! as we explore in the Climatron and Our spring weather can be a little then make some of our very own crazy. Come join us as we learn delicious tropical treats! about weather. We will take a look Thursday, March 8 at different clouds and the wacky weather that is around us in the A Walk in the Woods spring. Spring comes to life in the English Tuesday, March 6 Woodland Garden. Come along and see the woods wake up from winter. We’ll learn about all the critters that call the woods their home, and why they think it is such a great place to live. Thursday, March 22

36 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes Sweet Spring Smells survive. We will also make our own PROGRAMS FAMILY & YOUTH What is that wonderful scent? Spring toy and get a carnivorous plant to means growth, flowers, rain, and take home. sweet smells! We’ll use our senses to Saturday, June 16 explore all the signs of spring in the Lanterns, Chinese Style Garden, and make an aroma-filled After talking about the importance craft to remind us of our visit. of light in all cultures we will walk Thursday, March 29 to the Chinese Garden enjoying the The Giving Tree amazing display of colorful lanterns Help us celebrate Earth Day and along the way. You will make a Arbor Day by discovering all the lantern to take home with you. treasures we get from trees. We’ll eat Saturday, June 23 tree treats and go on a tree-finding They are Huge! hike. We will also learn different ways Help us find the largest plants we can take care of trees and the at the Garden and discover why environment. they have grown so big. What Thursday, April 19 value do they have and what Buzzing & Blooming happens to their neighbors when Let’s discover why bees and flowers a plant is a “bully”? We will are such great friends! We’ll learn create leaf prints to take home. about pollination as we pretend to be Saturday, June 30 bees and go on a flower hunt. Then You’re the Gardener we’ll pot some flowers to take home. Today we will visit some of the Thursday, April 26 unique flower gardens tucked away Journey to China on the grounds and explore their Get your passports ready! Join us as differences. We will also create a tiny we explore the Chinese Garden. We garden in unusual containers for you will examine the plants of China as to take home. well as the flower lanterns on display. Saturday, July 14 Thursday, May 31 Peter Rabbit’s Favorite Garden Pitzman Summer We will explore the vegetable garden at the Kemper Center and notice Saturdays (MBG) the edible parts of different plants. For ages 4–6. Price includes one child Which part would Peter be most and one adult. Register by May 18 likely to eat? Once back in the for three or more Pitzman Summer classroom you will make a vegetable Saturday classes and your child will creature to take home. receive a free t-shirt and journal. Saturday, July 21 10:30 a.m. to noon $14 members; $17 nonmembers Watercolors in the Garden Beaumont Room After finding a cool, shady spot from Pam Wentworth, Jan Erdman, and Cathy Edmond which to observe, we will sit and paint together. Adult and child alike Carnivorous Plants, will share this experience together. Don’t Slip Little Bug! Your creations will be matted for you We will explore these amazing plants, to take home and treasure. and learn why they need bugs to Saturday, July 28

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 37 YOUTH & FAMILY PROGRAMS FAMILY & YOUTH Ksgesid a 6 and Up

Great Green Adventures (MBG) The Living Pond For ages 6–12. Sign up now or just With the return of warm days, the drop-in to explore a special area of Garden’s aquatic residents will seek the Garden. sunny rocks. We’ll be on the lookout 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. for frogs, birds and insects. OR Saturday, May 19 1:30 to 2:30 p.m Free for members; $3 with Garden admission What’s All the Buzz About? nonmember Insects are an important part of Doris I. Schnuck Children’s Garden Ticket any garden, but what do they really Fort do? Let’s search the Garden for Kelly Wehrheim insects and learn ways we can help Signs of Spring them at home. As the Garden wakes up from its Saturday, June 16 winter slumber, explore the first signs Exploring Chinese Plants of spring. Join us as we explore the Garden Saturday, March 17 for plants native to China and learn Spring Wildflower Walk about their special meanings and the Spring is in the air! Join us as we importance of these plants. take a stroll and search for spring Saturday, July 21 wildflowers. Native Plant Explorations Saturday, April 21 Let’s explore the prairie and learn about one of the most endangered ecosystems in North America. Saturday, August 18

Nature Connections (SNR) W! Nature Connections is a series NE of outdoor discovery classes in the Whitmire Wildflower Garden for children and their families. Participants will learn about and discover nature through tours of the Whitmire Wildflower Garden which will include hands-on activities, stories, snacks, and spontaneous encounters with wildlife and plants. Price covers one child and one adult. 5 to 7 p.m. $14 members; $17 nonmembers Meet at the Carriage House Scott Woodbury What’s That Critter Up To? (For ages 5–7) Friday, July 13 Crime Scene Investigation (CSI): Pollination, Predation, and Mimicry (For ages 7 and up) Thursday, August 16

38 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes YOUTH & FAMILY PROGRAMS FAMILY & YOUTH Cold Blooded Buddies (SNR) Kids’ First Time Fishing (SNR) For kids 8–12. Have you ever spotted Fishing is not normally allowed at the a lizard sunning itself on a rock or Reserve, but seen a snake slithering through the the Missouri tall grass? Come join us to learn Department of about the many different aspects of Conservation herpetology (the study of reptiles and is teaming amphibians). We will look at some of up with the adaptations of frogs, lizards, and Shaw Nature snakes and discover how they are Reserve to able to survive in such a variety of provide a different habitats. Following our indoor special fishing study we will be taking a short hike to experience for our wetland in search of the Reserve’s first time or many native amphibians. Don’t forget inexperienced to bring a flashlight and some old young anglers shoes that can get wet. 6 to 12 years old. Equipment, bait Friday, June 1 and assistance will be provided. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. At least one adult should attend $4 members; $6 nonmembers Adlyne Freund Center for every two children. Fishing Chris Reyering is for kids only. Refreshments provided. Cost is per child. Saturday, June 2 9 to 11:30 a.m. $10 members; $12 nonmembers Pinetum Lake; follow the signs from the Vistor Center Sam Faith (MDC), SNR Staff and volunteers

Camp EarthWays: Young Green Builders (CBEC) Calling all cool planet kids ages 10–13! Come explore the built environment! In this week-long day camp, campers will investigate sustainable building design as they create a fantasy green home from the inside out, interact with architects and construction and city planning professionals, and hop aboard public transportation to discover new neighborhoods and homes. A second week is offered this year for campers who participated last year or liked Week #1 so much they wanted to come back for more! Many thanks to the St. Louis Jefferson Solid Waste Management District for making this program available at a lower cost to our participants. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. $170 members; $185 nonmembers (per session) Commerce Bank Center for Science Education—Room 119 Katy Mike Smaistrla Session 1: Monday, July 16 through Friday, July 20 Session 2: Monday, July 23 through Friday, July 27

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 39 DROP-IN FAMILY ACTI FAMILY DROP-IN Dr op-in Family Activities M arch Morpho Mania (BH) Explore the beautiful blue morpho butterfly’s tropical home through interactive games and crafts in our classroom. Weekends in March. No registration required. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free with Butterfly House Admission

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I Butterfly House Staff TIES N aturally Crafty Saturday: Spring Time! (BH) For families with children ages 2–13. Grow a butterfly friendly plant in a pot you make! Other crafts will involve ladybugs, a gardener’s best friend. No P ollinator Palooza (BH) registration required. For families with children ages 2–13. Saturday, April 7 Pollinators range from very small 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to big, from insects to mammals. Free with Butterfly House Admission Lopata Learning Lab Discover how you can help pollinators Jessica Deering in your own backyard. Learn about pollination and the animals that do all E arth Day at the the work. No registration required. Butterfly House(BH) Sunday, June 17 Crafts, games and activities will fill Noon to 3 p.m. Free with Butterfly House Admission the Butterfly House as we learn what Lopata Learning Lab makes our Earth home for insects Butterfly House Staff and other animals. No registration required. B ug Hunt (BH) Saturday, April 21 For families with children ages 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. 2–13. Explore the world of insects Free with Butterfly House Admission by creating and being a part of their Butterfly House Staff environment. Learn how they live through games and crafts. Then go on a field session with a staff entomologist and find them in their native habitat. Field sessions are signed up for the day of the event; 2 sessions will be held. No registration required. Saturday, July 28 Session 1: 11 to 11:45 a.m. Session 2: 1 to 1:45 p.m. Free with Butterfly House Admission Lopata Learning Lab Butterfly House Staff

40 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes FAMILY PROGRAMMING FAMILY D iscover Nature (SNR) For families with children ages 3 and up. Programs are designed to help adults and children explore nature and master outdoor skills together. Stop by for a few minutes or an hour. No registration is required. 9:30 a.m. to noon Free with Shaw Nature Reserve Admission Nature Explore Classroom Jim and Brenda Christ (SNR Volunteers) Bugs, Worms, and Fungi, Oh My! Birds, Beaks, and Bills! Naturalists will be on hand to help Naturalists will be on hand to guide your child examine the inside of a your child through “Fill the Bill,” an rotting log. An amazing diversity of educational activity that examines fungi, insects, and other arthropods birds and their feeding habits. Every can be found in nearly any piece of bird’s beak is specifically adapted fallen timber. This may sound a little to their unique diet. Explore how the creepy or gross to some, but most shape and size of a bird’s beak can tell children will be absorbed by the you about what that bird eats. discoveries they’re making. Saturday, June 16 Saturday, May 19

Family Programming

Full Moon Friday Tale Travelers (SNR) Night Hike (SNR) Kids, gather your family, walking For adults and families with children shoes, water bottle and backpack ages 8 and up. Watching a full moon for an adventure-filled afternoon at rise over the Reserve is quite the sight! Shaw Nature Reserve! Listen to nature Join us for this 2 hour stroll through stories, create cool crafts and explore evening and into the early night. Sunset the outdoors at “Tale Travelers.” Come will occur at 7:30, followed shortly by for an hour or stay all afternoon. moonrise at 7:48. Apart from viewing Activities are designed for children this natural spectacle, you will also ages 4 to 12, but can be enjoyed by learn about crepuscular and nocturnal all. Cost is per child. Children 3 and animals. In addition, we will play a under are free. series of games (fun for adults too!) Sunday, April 15 1 to 4 p.m. that test your senses. If you’ve never $4 members; $5 nonmembers been to the Reserve at night, this will Follow the signs from the SNR Vistor Center be a wonderful opportunity to take in SNR Staff and Volunteers the sights, sounds, and smells of the Reserve as darkness takes over. Please be prepared to walk about 2 miles over uneven ground. Cost is per person. Friday, April 6 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. $4 members; $6 nonmembers Meet at the SNR Visitor Center Steve Bean

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 41 FAMILY PROGRAMMING FAMILY Spring Peeper Musical (SNR) Firefly Festival (BH) For adults and families with children For families with children ages 6 ages 5 and up. The Reserve’s wetland and up. Join us for this celebration attracts thousands of frogs during of Earth’s living lanterns, the the mating season. The thunderous fireflies. Learn about their chorus must be heard to be believed. fascinating lights, and in the spirit Join a guide for this frantic frog of the Missouri Botanical Garden’s festival of song. Bring a flashlight to Chinese Lantern Festival, take part view the frogs’ light-reflecting throat in some Chinese firefly crafts. Then, sacks, which they use to produce as night falls outside, we will light their distinctive songs. Email Helen. up the field outside The Butterfly [email protected] (preferred) or House with a flashlight show in call 636-451-3512 ext 6075 to be celebration of their twinkling lights. added to the email or call list. Cost is Price is per person. per person. When the spring peepers Tuesday, June 5 start their song, you will be contacted. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Expected time frame is February 15 $4 members; $6 nonmembers through March 31. Butterfly House 7:30 to 9:15 p.m. Butterfly House Staff $5 members; $6 nonmembers Meet at the SNR Visitor Center Helen McCallie Nighttime Insect Safari (SNR) For adults and families with children Plant Your Monarch ages 8 and up. Explore the fascinating Garden (BH) world of night-flying insects. Marvel For families with children ages 6 and at their diversity and adaptations as up. Learn how to grow a garden that we lure these mysterious creatures will be attractive to Monarchs and with black lights. Come prepared for other local butterflies. We will cover moderate hiking, wear dark clothing and good flower choices for butterflies and bring a flashlight. Price is per person. Saturday, June 30 ways to keep your butterfly garden 8:30 to 11 p.m. attractive year round. Each participant $16 members; $20 nonmembers will receive a milkweed seedling. Meet at the SNR Visitor Center Saturday, May 5 Dr. James Trager 11 a.m. to noon $12 members; $15 nonmembers Lopata Learning Lab Chris Hartley

42 To register go to www.mobot.org/classes FAMILY PROGRAMMING FAMILY Shaw Family Adventures the adaptations of frogs, lizards, and For children ages 3 and up, with an snakes and discover how they are accompanying adult. These classes able to survive in such a wide variety will be held outdoors, so please of different habitats. come prepared with sunscreen, water Wednesday, June 20 bottles, walking shoes, snacks, hats, etc. The classes will be cancelled if it rains. Feel free to bring a picnic lunch so that you can explore more of the Reserve after the programs. Advanced registration is required. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. $3 members; $5 nonmembers Check in at the SNR Visitor Center Karen Bryan and Chris Reyering Fairy Houses Do fairies and other mythical creatures live at Shaw Nature Reserve? This program, based on the children’s book Fairy Houses by Tracy Kane, will shed some light on that question. Construct your own miniature house for a fairy, troll, gnome, or any other creature that may live in the woods at the Reserve. The Dazzling Wednesday, June 13 NEW! or Monday, June 18 Dragonfly!(MBG) or Thursday, June 28 For adults and families with children Creek Stomp ages 8 and up. Dragonflies are Grab your creek shoes and come one of the most interesting flying explore Brush Creek with us! We insects, but how much do you know will see what kinds of critters live in about its history, life cycle, and food the creek. If the water level at Brush sources? How are they different from Creek is too high or low, we will damselflies? And can you create a explore one of the Reserve’s ponds dragonfly garden in your backyard? instead. Be ready to walk roughly 3/4 Chris Hartley, entomologist with the of a mile (round trip). Butterfly House, joins us at the Garden Friday, June 15 to share information about this magical or Friday, June 22, flying insect. After class, join Chris for a or Tuesday, June 26 stroll in the Garden to find and identify Frogs, Snakes and Lizards your own dragonflies. Price includes Have you ever spotted a lizard one child and one adult. Saturday, July 14 sunning itself on a rock or seen 10 to noon a snake slithering through the $25 members; $30 nonmembers tall grass? Come join us to learn Missouri Room about many different aspects of Chris Hartley herpetology (the study of reptiles and amphibians). We will look at some of

To register go to www.mobot.org/classes 43 FAMILY PROGRAMMING FAMILY Biking & Botany (SNR) 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. W! For adults and families NE $6 members; $ 8 nonmembers Meet at the SNR Visitor Center with children ages 8 and Dr. James Trager, Steve Bean, and SNR up. This unique event will combine Volunteers biking with biology. Bikers will follow a predetermined route around the Nature Full Moon Friday Reserve, stopping (if they choose) at Night Hike (SNR) specific stations to learn more about For adults and families with children the plants and trees of the Reserve. ages 8 and up. Watching a full moon Each group/individual will ride at their rise over the Reserve is quite the own pace. There are some hills at sight! Join us for this 2 hour stroll the Reserve, but nothing that can’t through evening and into the early be conquered with a little walking/ night. Sunset will occur at 7:32, and pushing. This event is timed to coincide will be preceded shortly by moonrise, with the full moon. It should be a great which will happen at 7:19. Apart from opportunity to take a relaxing evening viewing this natural spectacle, you bike ride and view the full moon as it will also learn about crepuscular and rises over the Reserve (moonrise will nocturnal animals. In addition, we occur at 8:24 p.m.). We require that all will play a series of games (fun for participants wear a bike helmet. adults too!) that test your senses. Thursday, July 3 If you’ve never been to the Reserve 7 to 9 p.m. at night, this will be a wonderful $6 members; $ 8 nonmembers Meet at the SNR Visitor Center opportunity to take in the sights, Dr. James Trager, Steve Bean, and SNR sounds, and smells of the Reserve Volunteers as darkness takes over. Please be prepared to walk about 2 miles over Biking & Bugs (SNR) W! uneven ground. Cost is per person. For adults and families NE Friday, August 31 with children ages 8 and 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. up. This unique event will combine $5 members; $6 nonmembers biking with biology. Bikers will follow Meet at the SNR Visitor Center Steve Bean a predetermined route around the Nature Reserve, stopping (if they choose) at specific stations to learn Calling all Scouts! more about insects, arachnids, and other small critters of the Reserve. Experience fun, challenging and Each group/individual will ride at their and inspiring outdoor programs own pace. There are some hills at that align with badge and award the Reserve, but nothing that can’t requirements. Dig into soil, identify be conquered with a little walking/ aquatic plants and insects, or pushing. This event is timed to coincide create nature-inspired crafts. Find a with the full moon. It should be a great Missouri Botanical Garden program opportunity to take a relaxing evening that is perfect for your troop: bike ride and view the full moon as it www.missouribotanicalgarden.org. rises over the Reserve (moonrise will occur at 8:17 p.m.). We require that all participants wear a bike helmet. Thursday, August 2

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Overnights E On the Banks of Plum Midnight Hike Overnight (SNR) Creek Overnight (SNR) For families with children ages 12 For families with children ages 5 to and up. Have you ever seen the 9. Stay at the Dana Brown Overnight Nature Reserve at night? If not, it can Center as we celebrate the Laura be quite the experience! Join us for Ingalls Wilder book On the Banks this fun-filled program of nighttime of Plum Creek. This adventure will activities. Dr. James Trager will join us incorporate exploration of a creek, with black lights to attract and teach as well as other activities based on about the insects of the night. We will the book. Accommodations at the be setting up a telescope to view the overnight center are dormitory style night sky. There will also be a campfire in log lodges with modern amenities. and s’mores to keep everyone cozy. Breakfast will be provided. Price Lastly, around 11:30 p.m. we will set includes one child and one adult. out on our “Midnight Hike,” which Friday, July 6 will last until about 2 a.m. Then, we’ll 7:00 to 10:30 a.m. return to the Dana Brown Overnight $50 members; $60 nonmembers Center to sleep. Accommodations will Dana Brown Overnight Center be dormitory style. Breakfast will be Karen Bryan and Aileen Abbott provided. This class will be cancelled in the event of rainy weather. Friday, August 24 7 to 10 a.m. $50 members; $60 nonmembers Dana Brown Overnight Center Aileen Abbott, Steve Bean, and Dr. James Trager

Attention Teachers Searching for meaningful, applicable professional development that sparks your students’ interest in and passion for the natural world while also fulfilling grade-level requirements? Find it this spring or summer at our Missouri Botanical Garden sites. Visit “Learn and Discover: For Teachers” online at www.missouribotanicalgarden.org or call (314) 577-5147 for more information. Credit offered through local universities.

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