During the winter months we will bring the garden to you! The Winter Green program seeks to connect people with plants, to engage their senses and provide social enrichment. Offered November through March, Winter Green provides a sensory tour of potted plants and a hands-on activity of your choice at your facility. 

Available activities:

• Making a Topiary
  Learn and perform the steps to create a topiary frame, transplant an ivy plant and train the plant to the frame. This activity encourages fine motor skills and creative expression through hands-on work with plant, soil and topiary materials.
• Plant Propagation
  This activity is hands-on work with plants and soil materials. Participants learn to make stem cuttings from hardy houseplants to take home and enjoy. The activity develops fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in a highly social setting.
• Pretty Pots
  Participants will decorate pots and transplant hardy houseplants or herbs. This activity engages sense of touch and sight by working with soil and plant materials.
• Terrariums
  This activity offers hands-on experience in creating an open air terrarium. Participants learn how to make a terrarium for hardy houseplants to take home and enjoy. This activity develops fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in a highly social setting.
• Cool Season Gardening
  Have you ever wondered about having a garden at your facility? Whether you have a large garden space, containers or you need help creating one, this program will take you from planning to planting. Experience a series of consecutive sessions that will prepare you for your spring garden. Each session will be a different activity. This program option is only available in a package of three sessions.

Dates and Times:
Winter Green: beginning of November through the end of March; weekdays between 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Cool Season Gardening: beginning of March through the end of April; weekdays between 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Cost:
Winter Green: $80 for-profits, $60 non-profits
Cool Season Gardening, Three Sessions: $175 for-profits, $125 non-profits

General Info:

• Programs are offered by reservation only.
• Payment is due upon booking.
• Cancellations made at least one week prior to the program will receive a full refund.
• Cancellations with less than one week notice (weather cancellations excepted) are not refundable. If cancellation is made by the Gardens, we’ll work with you to re-schedule your program. Questions? Email us at thprograms@botanicgardens.org or call 720-865-3613.

To schedule a program for your group, call 720-865-3613 or fill out a Request Form and email to above address.

Would you like to volunteer with this program? Email us at vol@botanicgardens.org.

We also have the Summer Therapeutic Horticulture Program, facilitated at ourYork Street location during the summer months.