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All About Containers Saturday: All Three Sections

Containers can bring added color, form, and texture to any space-deck, rooftop, terrace, front porch, or window sill. With the right combination of plants, containers provide visual impact, create a small garden, and add pleasure to your living area. Sun or shade, ornamental or edible, find out what kind of container garden is right for you. Please bring lunch.

10 am-12 pm: Container Gardening 101
Mobee Weinstein l NYBG l GAR200B
Learn the basics for planting and maintaining a healthy outdoor container garden: materials and container styles, potting mixes, fertilization, and watering.

12-12:45 pm: Break

12:45-2:45 pm: Designing with Containers
Veronica Tyson-Strait l NYBG l GAR200C
Learn a comprehensive approach to designing with containers, including how, when, where and why you should use a particular pot in one spot over another. Gain tips and tricks for great plant combinations in containers of all kinds and walk away with a container of plants you potted up!

3-5 PM: Veggies and Herbs for Containers
Chris Satch | NYBG | GAR200D
Learn how to grow garden-fresh vegetables and herbs year-round. Discover which varieties do best in containers and how to care for them. Special attention is paid to those varieties that not only taste great but also look beautiful, including varieties that have interesting or unusual blooms and foliage.

Schedule:

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Only 16 days left to register!

Times:

10:00am-05:00pm EDT

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Instructor:

Mobee Weinstein Mobee Weinstein

Mobee Weinstein

Mobee Weinstein is Foreman of Gardeners at NYBG, holds a BS in Plant Studies from Lehman College, and is a graduate of NYBG's School of Professional Horticulture. She is a NOFA Organic Land Care Professional and has more than 30 years of experience in the care of landscape plants.

Veronica Tyson-Strait
Veronica Tyson-Strait

Veronica Tyson-Strait

Veronica Tyson-Strait is a landscape and garden designer and horticulturist, with a passion for ecological design. She designs, maintains and manages public and residential spaces in New York and Massachusetts.

Veronica is a graduate of NYBG's Landscape Design, Garden Design and Horticulture programs. She holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture and a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art.

Chris Satch
Chris Satch

Chris Satch

Christopher Satch is the founder and CEO of NYC Plant Help. He graduated from Rutgers University with a MS in Plant Biology and Pathology. Christopher also participates in Rutgers Alumni Growers and Exhibitors, an organization that showcases the horticultural prowess of Rutgers Alumni in flower shows across the tri-state area, including the Philadelphia Flower Show, the Manhattan Orchid Society Show, and the SEPOS Show.

Check him out on Instagram at @botanictonic.

Location:

NYBG, Watson Room 102
2900 Southern Blvd
Bronx, NY 10458

Session Number:

254GAR200A

Price:

Price Non-Member : $175.00
Member : $158.00

Additional Sessions Available

There are currently no other sections available.