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Saturday Yoga at the Garden
APRIL-MAY SESSION

1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

Practice yoga’s calming rhythms of breathing, movement and posture in a tranquil Garden setting. Small class sizes enable instructor Jacqueline Gooding to offer individual pointers and address multiple levels of experience. Please have a blanket, yoga mat, water and appropriate comfortable clothing. Sessions are in person either in the Garden or in a classroom with […]

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SEASONAL GARDEN TOUR
APRIL

1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

Enhance your understanding and appreciation of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden with this specialized garden tour featuring seasonal aspects of the collection.  Come dressed for the weather and touring the Garden.

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T'ai Chi Guided Practice:
APRIL-MAY

1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

Join others to experience the grace and beauty of movement meditation through the 5 Elements Form of T'ai Chi. Learn Qigong exercises to build strength, foster mobility, and increase balance. Classes take place in the garden or inside garden buildings depending on weather. Wear weather appropriate clothing and bring water. This is a continuing, multi level class, […]

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SPRINGTIME
IN VIRGINIA

1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

In early March, spring creeps in. Fruit trees and witch hazels bloom on bare limbs and early bulbs emerge among the leaves. By April, daffodils, tulips and bluebells color the ground while viburnum and redbuds paint the canopy above. The blazing colors of rhododendrons and azaleas fill the space between. With warming weather, peonies, iris […]

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SOILS, PART 3
pH and Fertilization

1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

Learn about the life under your feet in this three-part series. In this class, instructor Karin Stretchko discusses soil pH and the many factors affecting it within soil chemistry, plant nutrition, and the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium cycles, including fertilization and how to read fertilizer labels. Parts 1 and 2 examined the physical properties of […]

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SEASONAL GARDEN TOUR
APRIL

1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

Enhance your understanding and appreciation of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden with this specialized garden tour featuring seasonal aspects of the collection.  Come dressed for the weather and touring the Garden.

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HIDDEN LIFE
OF TREES

1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

Let's walk through the garden and explore how trees interact to help each other, migrate in response to climate change, avoid extinction or reappear after having been declared extinct, as well as other stories that trees have to tell us. Enjoy all this while exploring the beauty and diversity of the trees at Lewis Ginter Botanical […]

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Voice
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

1800 Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, VA, United States

Floriography, or the language of flowers, is the covert expression of one’s feelings through flowers and flower arrangement. Although this practice has been in place for thousands of years in Europe, Asia, and Africa, it is closely associated with England’s Victorian Era. Messages and feelings were expressed through the language of flowers in gifted, small […]

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