Weekend Programming
Posted in Programs and Events on May 16 2008, by Plant Talk
Now that all the nasty weather is behind us (for now), we can get back to the task at hand: enjoying spring. The Garden has another full plate of weekend programming to whet your appetite for the flavors of the season. From a wildlife-laden bird walk to a home gardening demonstration to kids’ classes to Darwin programming and much more!
And don’t forget about our Greening the Garden: Climate Change and Sustainability at the Garden cell phone tour. Walk around the grounds and learn how Garden research contributes to the study of climate change and what the Garden is doing to mitigate its effects. Call 718.362.9561. Enter a prompt number followed by the # key. Enter another number at any time.
Check out the full list of programs after the jump.
Saturday May 17
Bird Walk
Saturday, May 17, 11 a.m.
Meets at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center
Bring your binoculars and walk the Garden grounds with a bird expert. You’ll search for birds and learn more about bird-friendly habitats for both passage birds and those that reside at the Garden.
Darwin’s Garden: His Garden Re-Created
Saturday, May 17, 12:30 p.m.
At the Conservatory entrance
Take a docent-led tour of the Conservatory segment of Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure, which re-creates Down House, the place in Kent, England, where Charles Darwin spent the last 40 years of his life observing and experimenting with plants in the gardens, greenhouses, and surrounding countryside.
Darwin’s Garden: Everyday Science
Saturday, May 17, –1–3 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden
Learn the basics of scientific experimentation, the likes of which Charles Darwin used in his research. Develop your skills of observation, inquiry, and hypothesis with scientific instruments, herbarium specimens, and Garden plants. Use these new skills to uncover unknown aspects of the Garden.
Home Gardening Demonstration—Gardening Basics for a Changing Climate
Saturday, May 17, 1:30 p.m.
In the Home Gardening Center
Offset your carbon footprint through gardening. Join Sonia Uyterhoeven, Gardener for Public Education, as she covers the fundamentals of gardening, discusses climate change, and provides simple suggestions to help you garden ecologically.
Expert-led Tour of Darwin’s Garden: His Life with Plants
Saturday, May 17, 2:30 p.m.
In the 6th floor Library Gallery
Take an expert-led tour of an exhibition of more than 60 rare books and objects that tell the story of Charles Darwin’s lifelong relationship with plants. Darwin’s original manuscripts, field notebooks, plant collections, and other historical documents chronicle his progression from a boy with an interest in plants to an evolutionary botanist who revolutionized the world’s view of life.
Café Scientifique
Saturday, May 17, 3:30-5 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden
Engage in lively conversation with Garden scientists and students from the Botanical Garden’s Graduate Studies Program as they discuss Darwin’s influence on their research today at the Garden as well as around the world, working in the field, herbarium, library and laboratory.
Darwin for Kids
Saturday, May 17, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
The interactive exhibition features a replica of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Darwin took his famous five-year voyage to South America and around the world, a timeline of his life, a re-creation of his research laboratory, and some of the plants that were important to his findings. Children will enjoy potting up a vegetable plant, learning to create an herbarium specimen, and investigating various bogs. They can also experiment with the way seeds travel through water, explore an interactive Tree of Life, and develop their own evolutionary tree examining how relationships form among different species of plants.
Wild, Wiggly Worms
Saturday, May 17, 1–5:30 p.m.
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
Learn all about these slimy creatures and how they are hard at work in the Garden. Make a collage and sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your houseplants.
Sunday, May 18
Home Gardening Demonstration—Gardening Basics for a Changing Climate
Sunday, May 18, 11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.
In the Home Gardening Center
Offset your carbon footprint through gardening. Join Sonia Uyterhoeven, Gardener for Public Education, as she covers the fundamentals of gardening, discusses climate change, and provides simple suggestions to help you garden ecologically.
Darwin’s Garden: His Garden Re-Created
Sunday, May, 18, 12:30 & 2:30 p.m.
At the Conservatory entrance
Take a docent-led tour of the Conservatory segment of Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure, which re-creates Down House, the place in Kent, England, where Charles Darwin spent the last 40 years of his life observing and experimenting with plants in the gardens, greenhouses, and surrounding countryside.
Darwin’s Garden: Everyday Science
Sunday, May, 18, 1–3 p.m.
In the Perennial Garden
Learn the basics of scientific experimentation, the likes of which Charles Darwin used in his research. Develop your skills of observation, inquiry, and hypothesis with scientific instruments, herbarium specimens, and Garden plants. Use these new skills to uncover unknown aspects of the Garden.
A Darwinian Take on Climate Change
Sunday, May, 18, 3–5 p.m.
In the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall
Be inspired to become more sustainable and learn how your efforts fit into the bigger picture. Special guests William Cullina and Larry Weaner present. A moderated question-and-answer session follows. William Cullina is a nationally recognized authority on native plants who has worked in plant propagation and nursery production for two decades. Larry Weaner, president of Larry Weaner Landscape Design Associates, considers the relationship of all living environmental elements and uses native plants to create an aesthetic and easily managed garden when designing and building natural landscapes.
Darwin for Kids
Sunday, May, 18, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
The interactive exhibition features a replica of the HMS Beagle, the ship on which Darwin took his famous five-year voyage to South America and around the world, a timeline of his life, a re-creation of his research laboratory, and some of the plants that were important to his findings. Children will enjoy potting up a vegetable plant, learning to create an herbarium specimen, and investigating various bogs. They can also experiment with the way seeds travel through water, explore an interactive Tree of Life, and develop their own evolutionary tree examining how relationships form among different species of plants.
Wild, Wiggly Worms
Sunday, May, 18, 1–5:30 p.m.
In the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden
Learn all about these slimy creatures and how they are hard at work in the Garden. Make a collage and sift nutritious worm compost to take home for your houseplants.
