Courses

In this September workshop, we’ll focus on bulbs and preparing your garden for spring. Learn the differences between bulbs, tubers and corms, and discover how to grow beautiful ornamental flowers for cutting gardens.

Led by Sangeeta Thomas, Learning Garden Coordinator, these beginner-friendly, monthly sessions cover a variety of seasonal topics to help build your gardening skills. 

What role can a landfill play in supporting biodiversity? For more than 25 years, the City of Vancouver has nurtured habitat gardens at its Delta landfill, creating spaces where native plants, pollinators, birds, and other wildlife can thrive.  

Join horticulturist Sage Kosa for an inside look at these unique gardens and discover simple, practical ways to create more habitat in your own landscape. 

Join illustrator Bea Martin for a fun, beginner-friendly nature journaling workshop. Through easy-to-follow exercises and creative tips and techniques, participants will explore the Garden ponds and capture what they see and hear in pencil & paint—from turtles and dragonflies, to ducks and water lilies!

In this three-session online series, you’ll develop your drawing and watercolour skills to create accurate and expressive pictures of vegetables. Guided by artist and educator Katharine Dickinson, follow step-by-step demonstrations that show observation drawing techniques for capturing angles, proportions, and the unique shapes of plants.