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HA! HA! HEE! HEE! HEE! WHAT'S SO FUNNY? LAUGHTER YOGA IN THE GARDEN Sound funny? It is!! Want to reduce your stress, boost your immunity, lift depression, or just increase the quality of your life by being surrounded by the contagiousness of happy laughter? Happiness creates miracles! You don't need to have a sense of humor or bend your body in weird positions to do it. Ina Lukas, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader, will take you through a series of playful laughing and breathing exercises that will leave you feeling a whole new sense of joy in life. Start taking life less seriously, boost your happy chemistry, and come ready for fun! Sundays, 10:00 to 11:00 am Suggested donation of $5 for adults Kids welcome!! It's great for all ages.
Now you can laugh twice a week! COMPOSTING & LASAGNA GARDENING: A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP Composting is one of the best ways to recycle, and it gives you a fantastic product when it works. When it does not work, you can have dried plant material for years or a stinking wet mess for the summer. Roger Reynolds will teach you the basics of good, clean composting — in terms anyone can understand. Then we will take our composting knowledge right to the garden and learn how to create a "lasagna garden" — a deep-mulched garden system that takes no digging, no tilling, and has almost no weeds. It can be used to smother invasive species 100%, with no chemicals, and you can plant right over the bad guys as they die — buried. It is the easiest, lowest-maintenance method for growing vegetables and more. Weather permitting, we will build a lasagna garden at Blooming Valley for a hands-on experience. Saturday, May 23, 1:00 to 4:00 pm Cost $10 A BLOOMING VALLEY GARDEN DESIGN WORKSHOP Do you want to turn your yard into a place of beauty, but don’t know where to begin? This workshop will teach you the basic starting blocks of landscape design, from designing the spaces and bed lines to specific plant arrangement with continuous color, rhythm, and form as your guide. A fun way to learn the fundamentals of garden design! Sunday, June 14, 2:00 to 4:00 pm Cost $8 ECOLOGICAL GARDEN CARE: LOW-MAINTENANCE GARDENING THE NATURAL WAY Want to make your gardens easier to care for through better garden maintenance? Ina Lukas will teach you how to create a low-maintenance garden from the start; how to build your soil; how to reduce your garden weeds and pests without using chemicals; which garden tools are best for the job; plus many other garden maintenance tips used by professionals. Sunday, June 28, 1:00 to 3:30 pm Cost $8 BUTTERFLY AND HUMMINGBIRD GARDENS: CREATING A NECTAR BED Do you want to attract more butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden? Ina Lukas will teach you how to create the habitat to attract these beautiful creatures to your yard and which specific plants are essential for the stages of their life cycles. Learn the tricks of how to prepare, design, lay out, and plant the garden. Sunday, July 12, 1:00 to 3:00 pm Cost $8 RAIN GARDENS ROCK! Rain Gardens are perennial flower beds that catch and infiltrate rain runoff from downspouts and driveways. Roger Reynolds will explain the benefits, sizing, design, installation, and maintenance aspects specific to Rain Gardens. You will leave with a plant list specific to Rain Gardens, the knowledge to design and install your own, and a thorough understanding of this beautiful storm runoff management technique. Saturday, July 25, 1:00 to 3:00 pm Cost $8 CREATING A FULL SEASON OF NATURAL BEAUTY: THE NEW WAVE PLANTING MOVEMENT There is a garden design revolution sweeping the land, and it’s called The New Wave. The brilliant influence of Piet Oudolf, a visionary garden designer from Holland, has created a whole new way of designing with perennials. By looking to nature’s native landscapes and adding artistic skill, beautiful, low-maintenance gardens are created that have interest from spring through fall, and all winter, too. Ina Lukas will show you how to use these design influences to create stunning naturescapes in your yard. Learn about the plants that create interest all season long through their form, foliage, flowers, and seedheads. If you’re ready to be inspired, don’t miss this class! Saturday, August 8, 1:00 to 3:00 pm Cost $8 THE EXCITING WORLD OF ORNAMENTAL GRASSES Want to know more about this growing trend in garden plants? Learn why ornamental grasses are so wonderful to use and how they add texture, movement, sound, winter interest, and the manipulation of light to your garden, while being absolutely low-maintenance. See mature plants blooming in our display gardens. Ina Lukas will introduce you to the different kinds of ornamental grasses that are hardy in Wisconsin and how to use them in garden design. Saturday, September 5, 1:00 to 3:00 pm Cost $8 PERENNIAL WISDOM LECTURE SERIES PACKAGE Do you want to get on the fast track to fun and easy gardening? Take the entire adult lecture series (seven lectures) for $50 and make a commitment to empowering your inner gardener with priceless wisdom. This comprehensive series will set you up for lifelong gardening success.
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WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS RADICLE (n.) The rudimentary root of a seedling. SPROUT (v.) To shoot forth or begin to grow.
Class sizes are limited, so please register early!
MONARCH MAGIC The monarch caterpillars are out and ready to transform from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly! Learn about the plants they eat, their life cycles, and more. Kids will hunt for them in the garden, then take home their own caterpillars, milkweed plants, and supplies to watch them transform into butterflies in your home. The magic of this experience will never be forgotten ─ by the child or the parent! For kids of all ages (3-99). Saturday, August 22, 1:00 to 2:30 pm Cost $18 (includes the take-home butterfly set-up)
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COPYRIGHT © 2008 BLOOMING VALLEY PERENNIAL NURSERY ― SITE DESIGN BY ZUMAVI |
We believe the world becomes a
better place when people get outside, garden, and add more beauty and joy to
the world. We know that gardening knowledge is power and the key to a
lifetime of gardening joy. Whether you are taking a class or
shopping at our nursery, our goal is to empower you with perennial wisdom
and help you find the answers to your questions.
