Classes at Duke Gardens

Please find below a listing of classes still available. Contact Sara Smith at 919-668-1707 for full information or to register.

PLANTS OF DISTINCTION

with Jason Holmes, Curator of the Doris Duke Center Gardens

This class introduces you to spectacular plants that offer a distinct ornamentality. Sign up separately for each session to learn a new group of beautiful and useful plants, or take all three sections. We will continue the class throughout the year with new topics introduced seasonally.

Section a: Wednesday, Sept. 7, 1-3 pm. FOLIAGE TEXTURES FOR DESIGN IMPACT

Section b: Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1-3 pm. PENDULA AND ALTA: Weepers and Uprights

Section c: Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1-3 pm. VAREGATED EVERGREENS

Location: Doris Duke Center

Fee: $25; Friends $20. Enroll in all three sections at $60; Friends $54.

Participant Limit: 15

Home Horticulture Certificate Elective

GARDENING 101

with Jan Watson, Horticulturist, Sarah P. Duke Gardens

Learn how to open and prepare a bed for planting, basic soil improvement strategies, selecting plants, and planting skills. Class will work at opening and planting a small bed to see theory in practice.

2 Saturdays, Sept 10 & 17, 9 am. to noon.

Location: Doris Duke Center

Fee: $115; Friends $90

Participant Limit: 15

Home Horticulture Certificate Required Course

LANDSCAPE PLANTS FOR NORTH CAROLINA GARDENS

with Bobby Mottern, MLA and Director of Horticulture, Sarah P. Duke Gardens

Expand your palette of plants with information from this class. Each season this class covers another group of approximately 75 plants suitable for North Carolina gardens. You will learn identification skills and design use, and understand the culture of each plant. This session focuses on plants that shine in this season and late blooming perennial flowers.

4 Wednesdays, Sept. 14, 21, 28, and Oct. 5, 1-3 pm.

Location: Doris Duke Center

Fee: $110; Friends $90

Participant Limit: 15

Home Horticulture Certificate Required Course

ARTIFICIAL STONE SCULPTURES AND POTS: Hypertufa

with Beth Jimenez and Amelia Lane, Lasting Impressions Concrete Sculptures

Many who favor English gardens also admire their use of antique stone sinks as planting containers. Lacking an old stone sink can put a crimp in your plants! Learn to make a facsimile in this class using hypertufa. Ingenuity and a willingness to play in the mud are the only requirements. All supplies included; each participant will make his own planter.

Saturday, Sept. 17, 1-4 pm.

Location: Doris Duke Center

Fee: $60; Friends $50

Participant Limit: 20

AUTUMN LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

with Jennifer Weinberg, Weinberg Photography

Autumn light hangs low in the sky with a golden hue. The light is unique to this time of year because the atmosphere is warmed, carrying more particulate matter, and diffusing the light to a warm shade. Learn to make the best of this seasonal light and the beauties of the autumn season.

2 Thursdays, Sept. 15 & 22, 6-9 pm. and Saturday, Sept. 17, 3-7 pm.

Location: Doris Duke Center

Fee: $110; Friends $90

Participant Limit: 15

Nature Photography Certificate Elective

See full descriptions at gardens.duke.edu