Develop the vital skills needed to protect and manage landscapes, maintain healthy trees, design attractive gardens, and produce landscape plants. Our horticulture classes cater to anyone—from beginners to advanced horticulturists—with an emphasis on real world skill-building. Enroll in a single class or pursue a Horticulture Certificate.
Click here for an overview of the Certificate Program.
Explore theories, traditions, and principles that have shaped the design of landscapes from antiquity to the present, through visual presentations, assigned readings, projects, and classroom discussion.
Soil
is
a
dynamic,
living
organism
and
the
very
foundation
of
sustainable
horticulture
and
agriculture.This
course
focuses
on
the
texture,
structure,
density,
and
color
of
different
soils
and
the
dynamic
relationship
that
exists
among
soil,
water,
and
plants.
Through
lectures
more...
This
course
introduces
students
to
the
practical
skills
required
for
growing
plants
in
greenhouses
with
an
emphasis
on
integrated
management
techniques.
Topics
include
structures
and
equipment,
soils
and
other
growing
media,
irrigation
and
fertilization
practices,
potting
and
repotting,
and
cultural
more...
This user-friendly intro course surveys the major plant groups-flowering plants, conifers, ferns, and bryophytes-focusing on their form and structure. Become botanically literate and gain practical experience in dissecting and analyzing plant structures.
Explore the basics of successful, environmentally friendly gardening. Topics include soils and their improvement, seed sowing, vegetative propagation, planting, pruning, watering, weeding, mulching, and disease and pest control. This course is also required for the Horticultural Therapy Certificate.
Graphics are essential in developing and communicating your ideas. Practice various graphic techniques on a range of materials and equipment and learn how to organize and render landscape plans on paper for optimal presentation to clients. Homework is required.
Through
classwork
and
hands-on
practice,
develop
pruning
tools
and
techniques
to
help
shrubs,
conifers,
broadleaves,
evergreens,
and
deciduous
plants
thrive.
Explore
how
woody
plant
structure
and
physiology
influence
pruning.
Learn
how
to
create
and
maintain
hedges
and
explore
authentic
pollarding
more...
This studio-oriented course covers basic site analysis, planting plans, and color schemes (analogous or sequential, complementary, and monochrome). Presentations, discussions, and design projects combine practical information with theoretical garden design.
Learn
to
work
with
plants
that
are
difficult
to
propagate
by
seed
or
cuttings.
Subjects
include
advanced
seed
propagation
and
techniques
of
grafting,
budding,
and
micro-propagation.
Learn
tissue
culture
at
NYBG's
Pfizer
Laboratory,
and
tour
a
retail
nursery
for
a
more...
There
are
many
types
of
flowers
available
for
floral
designers,
from
exotic
imports
to
locally
grown.
Learn
to
identify
new
varieties
of
old
favorites,
seasonal
flowers,
and
various
foliages.
Topics
include
the
special
handling
needs
of
many
flower
types.
more...
Manage annual and perennial gardens with a variety of practices: soil and weed management, watering, pest identification and control, and seasonal clean-up. Develop a management plan for a small perennial garden.
From
Skyline
to
Shoreline:
Imaginative
Waterfronts
of
NYC This
year's
Winter
Lecture
Series
celebrates
three
distinguished
individuals—Tom
Balsley,
Warrie
Price,
and
Signe
Nielsen—who
have
meaningfully
contributed
to
New
York
City's
green
spaces
over
the
past
several
decades,
using
innovative
designs
for
more...
Hunters
Point
South
Park,
once
a
barren
post-industrial
site,
has
emerged
as
an
international
model
for
resilient
waterfronts
that
is
both
urban
and
other-worldly.
Designed
by
world-renowned
landscape
architect
Tom
Balsley,
FASLA,
this
park
embraces
the
shoreline
of
NYC's
east
more...
Graphics are essential in developing and communicating your ideas. Practice various graphic techniques on a range of materials and equipment and learn how to organize and render landscape plans on paper for optimal presentation to clients. Homework is required.
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