Events

Make Your Own Bog Garden

Saturday, May 12, 9 am – 12 pm

$25 members; $35 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!

 

Nature/Art BLAST! Day Camp

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

Presented by Mobile Botanical Gardens
and
Mobile Museum of Art

June 11-15, 2012
8:30 AM – 3:00 PM Daily
$175 per child

Transform your child’s summer with an exciting week-long adventure! Planned for rising third and fourth graders, 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 June 1

Click here to download an application form

MBG Marketplace Saturdays

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Calling All Gardeners – MBG Marketplace opens April 14!

April 14 – June 30, 9-11am

Every Saturday until the end of June, you can buy native plants, get great ideas from experts and support the Gardens. The Marketplace is located under the trees at the end of the uphill parking lot. Look for the white tent! Check back for weekly specials.

Plantasia! Spring Plant Sale 2012

March 22-25, 2012

View the Plant Sale List »

Opening Night Preview Party and Sale: Thursday, March 22, 4-8pm; $20 admission

Plant Sale: Friday and Saturday, 9am-4pm; Sunday 11am-4pm; free admission

Thousands of plants to choose from, all especially chosen for Gulf Coast Gardens!

Shade Gardening

Shade Garden

Wednesday, August 8, 6:30-8:30pm   Note Date Change

$25 members; $35 non-members

No sunlight? No problem! Create a beautiful landscape with shade loving plants.

1st Annual MBG Gourd Show

April 27 marks the opening of the First Annual Mobile Botanical Gardens Gourd Show. A mix of 16 art class teams from local public and private schools and various chapters of the Mobile Boy’s & Girl’s Clubs will be decorating and painting gourds to be displayed during the month of May.

Visitors will find these beautiful works of art in designated areas throughout the gardens and have an opportunity to vote for the ‘Best of The Show’ during the entire month of May with the winning school receiving two new computers.

Local celebrity judges Devon Walsh and John Nodar will select first, second and thirdplace winners for the ‘Individual Best of Show’ on Friday, April 27th.

This new yearly project is one of several designed to generate public awareness of the Gardens.  The show will run from April 27through May 31.

MBG Marketplace – Mobile’s “Secret” Garden Center

OPEN SATURDAYS ONLY APRIL 14 – JUNE 30

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 11 & 12, 9 am – 5 pm.