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Brooklyn GardenRooftop Gardening Workshop: January 30th

Want to install a rooftop garden and need to know which plants to use or how to properly care for an existing roof garden? This workshop offered by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will give you the tools to get going! Class will cover technical aspects like weight considerations, irrigation, and materials, as well as soil, suitable plants, and design. Note that this class will cover gardens but not green roof systems. Look for more on green roofs at BBG in the future. $57 member $64 nonmember.


Instructor: DORIS LOECHLE is a certified horticulturist with extensive experience in chemical-free container and rooftop gardening. She has worked in various botanic gardens and in exotic places like Cape Town, South Africa, where she studied the native Cape flora.

The workshop will take place at the BBG at 1000 Washington Avenue in Brooklyn.

To Register: https://www.bbg.org/edu/registration.html or 718-623-7220

For more info: http://www.bbg.org/edu/adult
 


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