(Adults) Experience Green Spring Gardens with all of your senses. Join Ana Ka’ahanui, co-founder of local nonprofit Capital Nature for a slow, meditative walk around the gardens. Contemplative, but more active than meditation, this forest bathing walk will help reduce blood pressure, boost immunity, and enhance mood and creativity. Decompress and feel a deeper connection with the natural world. Bring something to sit on the ground, which may be damp, and a water bottle. Dress for the weather.

(Adults) Discover the elegance and simplicity of Ikebana, the traditional Japanese art of flower arranging. Alice Buch, 2nd Degree Master of the Ohara School, teaches you the basic techniques and principles of Ikebana while demonstrating a Hana Isho Rising Form arrangement that you will then get to make yourself. Supplies included a plastic container, kenzan and flowers. Participants are encouraged to bring their own flower scissors. No prior experience necessary. Please register for both the class and the $30 supply fee.

(Adults) Tour two of the fabulous teaching museums of the Johns Hopkins University. Visit Homewood Museum, a Federal-period mansion housing a magnificent decorative arts collection. Take a short drive to Evergreen Museum and Library, a former Gilded Age mansion surrounded by Italianate gardens, home to the philanthropic Garrett family. Enjoy a relaxing lunch, then tour the Garrett’s extraordinary collection, ranging from paintings and porcelains, to rare books, costume designs, and a private theater. Due to the historic nature of the building it is not wheelchair or walker accessible. Historic building tours involve stairs. Includes motor coach, guided tours, and lunch at the Evergreen Museum. Trip departs Green Spring Gardens at 9 a.m. and returns at 6 p.m. Cancellation date: August 12

(Adults) Create a one-of-a-kind fairy garden scene out of natural materials with the help of instructor Bailey Price. Go on a guided walk to find inspiration and collect items from nature to work with. Learn how to build miniature furniture using hot glue and natural materials such as dried plants, acorns, twigs and bark. Feel free to bring fairy garden pieces from home to incorporate in your design. Register for both the class and the $35 supply fee. Bring a box or container that will help you transport your creation home.  

(Adults) Join Green Spring horticulturist Brenda Skarphol for a stroll in our summer gardens to look at some of our top perennial plants. Both native and sustainable non-native perennials will be featured, including some newer cultivars. We will see perennials thriving in a range of growing conditions, from sun to shade and in environments that are dry, moist or periodically wet. Plant combinations and eco-friendly gardening styles will be highlighted.