(Adults) Use your basic drawing skills to accurately render realistic drawings of trees and their leaves. Artist and instructor Caroline Hottenstein shows you how to use the media of your choice - a micron pen, watercolor, graphite, or colored pencils to capture and highlight details. Previous drawing experience encouraged. A supply list will be emailed before class. Bring a lunch.

(Adults) Learn about the history and process of flower and leaf pressing, from scientific uses to artful displays. Then create your own beautiful botanical artwork with dried plants collected at Green Spring Gardens. Tour the gardens and collect fresh materials to press for future classes to use. Register for both the class and the $10 supply fee.

(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) Perhaps one of the most beloved birds in gardening, hummingbirds, astonish us with their aerial acrobatics, their beauty and the important role they play in the garden. Extension Master Gardeners share what plants encourage them to visit your garden and what feeders are best. 

(Adults) Tour the 18th century historic house and lovely seven-acre gardens of Glen Burnie in Winchester, VA. The gardens feature formal boxwood and parterre designs along with an Asian garden, herb garden and statue stroll. Next we will head to the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley to enjoy the museum collection of regional history including 18th century art and an impressive mini-house collection. We will end our trip having tea at the charming Blooming Hill Lavender Farm. Includes motor coach, admission, tour and tea. Trip departs Green Spring Gardens at 8:30 a.m. returns at 5:30 p.m. Trip cancelation date: May 22

(Adults) Experience a guided tour of Hillwood Estate's luscious formal gardens. View the spring gardens such as the French Parterre, Japanese Garden and the cutting gardens. Following a docent-led tour of the mansion, we will sit and savor afternoon tea at Hillwood's Merriweather Café. Includes motor coach, entrance fee, tour and tea. Trip departs Green Spring Gardens at 9:30 a.m. and returns at 4:30 p.m. Trip cancelation deadline: April 23, 2025.

(Adults) Spend a spring morning at Ladew Topiary Gardens enjoying a tour of the house and beautiful gardens. The beautiful spring bulb displays will be in bloom, along with spring flowering trees. Lunch will be served at the cafe on the grounds. Trip departs Green Spring Gardens at 8:30 a.m. and returns at 6:30 p.m. Dress appropriately for the weather. Includes motor coach, admission, tour and lunch. Trip cancelation deadline: April 14, 2025.

(Adults) Enjoy a guided tour of the fantastic Morris Arboretum and Gardens of the University of Pennsylvania. Experienced docents will show us the garden highlights of the season. Following lunch there will be free time to explore the gardens and the gift shop. Includes motor coach, entrance fee, tour and lunch. Trip departs Green Spring Gardens at 7 a.m. and returns at 7 p.m. Trip cancelation date: May 6

(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) This Juneteenth join BLK FLWR MRKT, a local black woman owned business, in making a floral smudge stick – sometimes known as a smoke wand. Smudge sticks, a bundle of botanicals burned for aroma, have been used by many cultures throughout the world to cleanse and purify both physical spaces and mental energies. Learn about the specially selected herbs and flowers you will use and the historical and cultural importance they hold for Black Americans. Engage your inner-self through writing affirmations, inner-child games and blindfolded sensory activities.

(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.

(Adults) For the beginner or advanced student, artist and instructor Dawn Flores will share watercolor techniques through exercises that help you understand color, composition and improve brush control. Learn about the history and types of paper used in botanical art. Basic drawing skills are helpful for drawing the plant specimen from which to paint an elegant botanical portrait. A supply list will be emailed before class. Bring a lunch.

(Adults) In this class you will use a grid to turn your drawings and/or photographs into a creative composition with the direction of artist and instructor Marni Maree. Then you will use watercolor to paint it. A supply list will be emailed before class. Bring a lunch.

(16-Adult) This class features a gentle introduction to the Vinyasa method which helps participants increase the strength, flexibility and endurance necessary for gardening. Class held indoors.