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April 2020
Yard Yogi: Where Gardeners Go Deep: Spring Online Series
The Sawtooth Botanical Garden and Bloom Horticulture Specialists is partnering in 2020 to offer the Wood River Valley a landscaping series focused on gardening skills and landscape energy. Join us this April as we talk, train, and learn from plants, become the steward you were meant to be. Become a Yard Yogi and connect to the grounding energy of plants. 2020 Spring and Fall Yard Yogi Certification Series: Thursdays 6-8. Class is online only, via Zoom. Tentative on-site, outdoor practicum…
Find out more »Our Stewardship=Free Plants. Yard Yogi #1
Our stewardship equals free plants: seed germination, cuttings, grafting. First class in the Yard Yogi series with Tony McCammon on-site.
Find out more »Postponed: Birdhouse Building
Postponed: Join us in assembling birdhouses that meet the needs of house wrens, tree swallows, red-breasted nuthatches and (or) chickadees. Bring a family member or friend and work on a house together. Poo Wright-Pulliam will enlighten us about spring birds in the Wood River Valley as well. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy in the Garden after the workshop. The cedar boards are a donation of AC Houston Lumber in Ketchum. Friends of the SBG will pre-saw and drill the…
Find out more »Soil Health. Yard Yogi #2
Soil health: If you build it, they will come. Second class in the Yard Yogi series.
Find out more »Vegetables. Yard Yogi #3
Vegetables: Central Idaho's harvest benefits. Third class in the Yard Yogi series.
Find out more »Fruits: Yard Yogi #4
Fruits: Johnny Appleseed and those that followed. With pruning practice. Fourth class in the Yard Yogi series. Tony McCammon will be on-site.
Find out more »Postponed: Bug Zoo!
Postponed: The 15th annual Bug Zoo starts with a buzz with the enormously popular Bug Zoo Festival on a Saturday. The Zoo enjoys a 2 week run. Closed on Sundays. This year's theme is "Brave and Curious!" You'll see old favorites like tarantulas, scorpions, geckos and snakes and more! Get up close and personal with some of Bug Zoo's famous creatures, make critter crafts, do a bug scavenger hunt, play buggy games and more! Bring the kids and explore engaging…
Find out more »May 2020
Design: Yard Yogi #5
Design: The concepts and rules of beauty. Fifth class in the Yard Yogi series.
Find out more »Plant Worthiness. Yard Yogi #6
Plant worthiness: a guide to the top selections for Central Idaho. The sixth class in the Yard Yogi series. Tony McCammon will be on-site.
Find out more »Herbal Salves: Gather, Garble, Create with Darcy Williamson
Join Idaho herbalist Darcy Williamson on the trail learning about and gathering medicinal herbs. Then we'll go back to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden to process the plant material and create salves. Take home a bounty of medicinal salves.
Find out more »Herbal Teas: Gather, Garble, Bag with Darcy Williamson
On the trail with Darcy Williamson we'll gather and learn about medicinal plants for making tea. Then we'll go back to the Sawtooth Botanical Garden to process the plant material and package it for tea. Take home a bounty of medicinal teas in drying bags.
Find out more »July 2020
25th Annual Garden Tour
The Sawtooth Botanical Garden's 25th Annual Garden Tour will be held July 25, 2020, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 2020 showcase gardens are located in Golden Eagle, Gimlet, and Aspen Hollow with a 25th anniversary celebration after-party at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden. More information coming soon - save the date!
Find out more »Dry Brush Watercolor Techniques for Botanical Painting
Instructor: Carrie DiConstanzo Participants will learn how to replicate the form, colors, and details of botanical subjects using the dry brush method of watercolor. This method emphasizes using small amounts of water to achieve control with the pigment. Demonstrations will include color mixing, working light to dark, glazing, and painting fine details with small brushstrokes. The Instructor will demonstrate using small subjects and the students will be encouraged to experiment with this method. Sawtooth Botanical Garden will provide botanical subjects,…
Find out more »August 2020
2020 Gimlets in the Garden Summer Gala
You're Invited! 2020 Gimlets in the Garden: "It's our 25th anniversary!" Wednesday, August 26 | 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. More information coming soon - save the date! A night to invest in celebrating plants and inspiring people... come experience one of the valley's premier (yet intimate) fundraising event precisely where you'll see the direct impact of your support: the Sawtooth Botanical Garden, 11 Gimlet Road just 4 miles south of Ketchum. To be sure to receive information on the…
Find out more »September 2020
Our Stewardship=Free Plants: Yard Yogi #7
A review of stewardship and further plant propagation methods: Bud Grafting, Division, Separation.
Find out more »October 2020
Wood River Valley and Plant Relationships: Yard Yogi #11
Plant relationships in the Wood River Valley: Xeriscaping, NativScaping and Traditional options.
Find out more »Landscape Winterization and Season Extension: Yard Yogi #12
Final class in the 2020 Yard Yogi series.
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