Events

Children’s Botanical Collagraphy

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Artist in Residence Val Webb guides children through the fun process of making botanical prints using natural elements and an etching press. 10 am – Noon, $5/child. Ages 5-12 with adult.

Gallery of Gardens

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Friday & Saturday, May 3-4, 2013
9 am – 5 pm daily.

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Explore seven local private gardens and discover new ideas for your own May 3-4 at this year’s Gallery of Gardens tour! Experience garden diversity as you tour homes in Spring Hill, Old Dauphinway, and Midtown Mobile. This year, the entire street of Flo-Claire is joining in the spirit and sprucing up their front yards for the tour!

As you visit each garden, look for Plein Air artists painting on site, and feature plants that will be available in the MBG MarketPlace. Master Gardeners will be at each location to give visitors descriptions of the gardens and highlight ideas they can use at home.

Tour and MarketPlace hours are 9 am to 5 pm Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day of. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Mobile Botanical Gardens office or MarketPlace, or at any of the participating ticket outlets listed below. Group rates are available to groups of ten or more. For more information call (251) 342-0555. To purchase tickets online, click here.

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Gulf Coast Gardening

Instructor: Bill Finch

Cost: $85 for MBG members; $100 for non-members

Session XIII (now registering)
6 Tuesdays
May 14 – June 18, 2013.  1-3 p.m.   (No class Feb. 12, 2013)

Session XIV (now registering)
6 Wednesdays
May 15 – June 19, 2013.  6:30-8:30 p.m.

This six week course not only teaches you how to think like a gardener – it teaches you how to get the most from gardening in one of the world’s most distinctive gardening environments. When you complete this course, you’ll know what plants need to thrive in the seasons and soils of the Gulf Coast; how you can get 12 months of bloom; and how you can make peace with and even enjoy our exuberant garden life. We teach gardeners how to think for themselves, but we also provide proven formulas and techniques that will dramatically improve the success of both beginning and experienced gardeners.

Space is limited, and registration is required.

Click to Register online, or call 251-342-0555.

Next session offered August, 2013.

Nature/Art BLAST! Day Camp

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Nature Hikes – Scavenger Hunts – Nature Art in Various Media
Games & Activities – Nature Journaling

Presented by Mobile Botanical Gardens
and Mobile Museum of Art

June 10-14, 2013
8:30 AM – 3:00 PM Daily
$175 per child

Nature Blast 2013

Transform your child’s summer with an exciting week-long adventure! Planned for grades 3-5, and supplementing the science and fine arts standards for Alabama, this program is designed to instill a love of outdoor adventure and an appreciation of nature and art in nature.

Mornings are set amidst the 100-acre mobile Botanical Gardens, a rich, ecologically diverse site perfect for discoveries and exploration, and afternoons in creative activities at the adjacent Mobile Museum of Art in Langan Park.

Paid registrations due by May 31, 2013

Click here to download an application form

MBG Marketplace – Mobile’s “Secret” Garden Center

OPEN SATURDAYS ONLY APRIL 13 – JUNE 29

Located in the “white tent under the trees” at MBG, the Marketplace features many of the same unusual, interesting, native and hard to find plants featured at Spring Plant Sale, plus new merchandise arriving weekly. Staffed by Master Gardeners, the Marketplace provides not only plants, but expert advice for your Gulf Coast Garden.

The Marketplace is open Saturday mornings from 9am – 11 am
and also during Gallery of Gardens, May 3 & 4, 9 am – 5 pm.

Make Your Own Bog Garden

Saturday, June 8, 9 am – 12 pm

$35 members; $45 non-members
no cost for accompanied children 12 and under.

If you’ve ever been to a pitcher plant bog (or even to the MBG Plaza), you know how unique and fascinating these plants are, especially to children. Take advantage of this workshop to bring a little bit of the bog home!

Participants will learn about the soil composition and conditions necessary to maintain bog plants, and create their own dish garden of pitcher plants, sundews, and more.

Register now!

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