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Landscape Plants: Annuals

Become familiar with the identification, culture, and landscape use of annuals and select tender perennials. Review major groups of common species as well as more unusual types. Learn how to choose low-maintenance plants, and review the scientific and common names and the identification of approximately 60 annuals. Prerequisite: Introduction to Plant Science

This course is presented in memory of Mae L. Wien. NYBG is grateful to Mrs. Wien's family for their longstanding and generous support of our Continuing Education programs.

About Mae L. Wein
Mrs. Wein was passionate about cut flower gardening and flower arranging, as well as education. This class is a lovely and fitting tribute from her daughters Isabel Malkin and Dinny Morse, who have long been generous friends of NYBG.

"Mae's pride and joy was a cutting garden filled with wildflowers. Mae's profession was her family, and her hobby was gardening...she expressed her artistry in her garden and in her bouquets."—Excerpt from Greenwich Magazine, May 2012

Schedule:

Every week on Saturday, starting on 06/27/26 and ending on 08/01/26 (excluding 07/04/26)

Times:

11:00am-01:00pm EDT

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Instructor:

Michael Ruggiero Michael Ruggiero

Michael Ruggiero

Michael Ruggiero came to the garden in the summer of 1961 and is the former Senior Curator of Horticulture. During his time at the Garden he was responsible for the Orchid Collection, Propagation Greenhouses, Annual Displays, Plant Records, The Native Plant Garden and The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. Along with Lynden Miller, he oversaw the preparation and Planting of the Perennial Garden: The Herb Garden with Penelope Hobhouse, the Home Gardening Center, Children's Adventure Garden and the Planning, building and planting of the Paeonia, Daylily, and Liaison Daffodil Collections. After retiring, he was Horticulturist at Matterhorn Nursery where he Built the David Austin Rose Garden and for five years designed the Macy's Flower Show. He has written articles on many diverse gardening subjects for gardening publications and has appeared on The Victory Garden, Rebecca's Garden, and with Martha Stewart. He has authored Annuals with Style, Perennial Gardening, and Reliable Roses and Spotters Guide to Wildflowers of North America.

Location:

NYBG, Watson Room 320
2900 Southern Blvd
Bronx, NY 10458

Session Number:

264HRT341

Price:

Price Non-Member : $236.00
Member : $213.00

Prerequisite(s):

Introduction to Plant Science

By signing up for this course, you acknowledge that you have successfully completed the necessary prerequisite(s).

Additional Sessions Available

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