Register your child for Green Adventure Summer Camp: Bug Brigade and they will spend a week searching our gardens, forests, and ponds for whispering beetles, stinky bugs and other strange micro-beasts. Many are talented architects that build tunnels, traps, and intricate homes! Fashion your own bug-style structures that provide shelter for monarch butterflies, mason bees, and […]
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“Schoolyard Botany” is a free professional development workshop for K–5 educators presented by the Flora of Virginia Project and Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, with support from the Virginia Department of Forestry Urban and Community Forestry Grant Assistance Program. Inspire your students to love the outdoors, and meet your SOLs at the same time! Join award-winning […]
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2015 brings the UCI Road World Cycling Championships to Richmond, and we bring you a related tour! Find out how the beauty of today’s botanical garden began in the bicycle craze of the 1890’s. Your experienced Guide will share seasonal highlights and let you see why the Travel Channel calls this one of the “Best […]
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Learn more about Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden's connections to Richmond's early cycling history with the new book On Richmond's Wheel. Meet the authors for a brief launch program at 11:30 a.m. followed by book signings. There is no admission charge to attend the book launch in the Kelly Education Center Auditorium; however, admission is required […]
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Join us for Green Adventure Summer Camp: Over the River & through the Woods and enjoy a garden adventure! As we explore off-the-beaten paths, we’ll hop boulders across creeks, search for treasures in the woods, dissect plants that eat insects, and use all five senses to make exciting new discoveries. Both sessions of this camp […]
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Enroll your child in Green Adventure Summer Camp: Garden Cuisine and they will create a feast from plant to pizza! Grind wheat to knead into dough, turn milk into cheese, pick heirloom tomatoes to make the sauce, stir in flavorful Italian herbs, then bake using the power of the sun in a solar oven. You’ll […]
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Instructor Maggie Burgess discusses reliable, interesting plants that provide ongoing interest in our hot, dry summers. She includes tips for selecting, placing, planting, and caring for her selections as well as the dark side—what problems are common to them. Tour the Garden with Maggie to see mature examples in place. Registration is closed for this […]
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Create a garden-inspired arrangement using plants and flowers to create a multi-tiered composition with a natural stem lattice. Member $43 Non-Member $55
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Calling all Eco-Artists! Sign up for Green Adventure Summer Camp: Grow and Create for a creative nature-inspired week as we build and decorate twig castles, weave with cattails and harvest seeds to play an ancient game. We'll twist corn husks into toy people, create leaf mandalas, and string bracelets using beads picked from the Garden. Campers […]
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Learn 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 bring a blanket, yoga mat, water and appropriate layered clothing for the season. Classes take place in the Garden or inside Garden buildings, […]
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