| Arboriculture |
Safe, appropriate methods to climb trees for maintenance purposes. Trimming large hedges using platforms. Pruning techniques. |
Throughout the Garden grounds |
| Display Gardens |
How to plant for display purposes–spacing, grooming, weeding, watering, edging and staking. |
Home Gardening Center
Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
Perennial Garden Beds and Borders |
| Bronx Green-Up |
Community outreach and involvement, improvement of community gardens, and putting into practice horticultural skills. |
Throughout the Bronx |
| Family Garden |
Learn how to plan, install, maintain gardens, growing vegetables, cut flowers, perennials, meadow/wild flowers, containers, working with volunteers and families. |
Family Garden |
| Conservatory |
How to plant for indoor display purposes. Maintenance of conservatory plants: grooming, watering, syringing, misting, soil preparation and amending. Specific culture for succulents and cacti, aquatics, tropicals and/or others. |
Enid A. Haupt Conservatory |
| Turfs and Grounds |
Learn how to maintain turf areas: irrigation methods, edging techniques, fertilizing (equipment and type of fertilizer), weed control, leaf-raking and blowing. |
Throughout the Garden grounds |
| Rose Culture |
Learn how to maintain a rose collection: grooming, hilling, watering, deadheading, winter pruning, overwintering, pruning for different types of roses. |
Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden |
Integrated Pest
Management |
How to identify common pests in display areas by understanding how pests behave in different environmental conditions. Students will be taught how to scout for target pests. |
Throughout the Garden grounds, Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, and
Nolen Greenhouses |
| Greenhouse Production |
Control systems: heating, cooling, humidity control, shade control and ventilation. Do basic operations: fertilizing, soil mixture preparations, repotting plants, pricking, transplanting. Learn crop production: forcing, growing annuals, and container growing. |
Nolen Greenhouses |
| Plant Records |
Plant identification, data entry, label design and production, accessioning and de-accessioning, taking inventory of collections, label information for shows, research and composition. |
Plant Records |
| Alpine and Native Plant Culture |
Cultivation of rock and native plants that require very specific conditions. |
Rock and Native Plant Garden |
| Mapping |
Mapping and map reading, survey techniques and equipment operation, fundamentals of AutoCAD and GIS, and construction stakeout. |
Institutional Mapping Department |
