DESCRIPTION: This workshop is geared for the landscape professional as well as the home gardener. LFG’s horticulturist will guide guests through the garden and surrounding natural areas identifying invasive vining plant species and discussing their management options, organic and non-organic. Primary weeds of interest include Mile-a-minute vine, Kudzu, Honeysuckle, Oriental bittersweet, Porcelain berry, English ivy, Wintercreeper and Multiflora rose. Please note that Landcraft’s natural areas have ample poison ivy and though technically NOT an invasive plant because it is native, it is very aggressive. Dress appropriately.

Kerry Ann McLean is a horticulturist and garden educator. Trained as a Professional Gardener at Longwood Gardens and then a Senior Horticulturist there overseeing their Rose and Topiary Gardens, Kerry Ann brings to the North Fork years of experience as a grounds and estate manager, public gardener, Horticulture Specialist for W. Atlee Burpee Seed Company and plant buyer for terrain, the garden-lifestyle brand of Urban Outfitters.

This free program is made possible by support from the LONG ISLAND LANDSCAPE AND NURSERY ASSOCIATION (LINLA). LINLA represents over one-hundred-member companies and many more professionals currently working in the horticultural industry including growers, nurseries (both wholesale and retail), landscape design-build firms, designers, and other industry suppliers representing the full breadth of the horticultural supply chain. Since its creation in 1931, the Long Island Nursery & Landscape Association has worked hard to promote the interests of its members and the professionalism and growth of the green industry through advocacy, education, and scholarship.

AGE: For Adult Audiences

WEATHER: Fair weather only. If raining, workshop will be cancelled with no rain date to follow. To confirm possible cancellation due to weather please call (631) 298-7216.

SPECIAL NOTES: This event will be outdoors. Please dress appropriately for events and workshops held outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a healthy source of insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens or natural areas to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Required. To sign up, please contact us at info@landcraftgardenfoundation.org with the names of all attendees. Limited seating

DESCRIPTION: Meet four rehabilitated raptors – and one groundhog – up close and personal! The birds of prey will include one or more species of owl, hawk, vulture and/or falcon. Learn how each bird had been injured & rehabilitated by the Rescue Center – to become a wildlife ambassador that helps us humans learn how raptors live in the wild and help us coexist with them. You’ll also meet education animal Allen McButterpants, a groundhog who is very popular with children!

The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center is Eastern Long Island’s ONLY Wildlife Hospital, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to the rescue, medical rehabilitation, and release of native wildlife on the East End of Long Island. The Center opened its doors in 2000. The Wildlife Rescue Center receives over 10,000 calls each year for information or assistance with wild animal encounters. They are open 365 days a year and are available on call 24 hours a day.

AGE: For Adults and Children of All Ages

WEATHER: Rain Date July 29.

SPECIAL NOTES: Some seating provided. Please dress appropriately for events and workshops held outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Not required.

DESCRIPTION: Hypertufa: mix, pour and shape an organic-looking aggregate container using a recipe including lightweight sphagnum and cement. A human-made substitute for natural tufa (a highly porous rock-like material made when minerals precipitate (solidify) out of unheated water), hypertufa’s are ideal for alpine plants and succulent garden displays; and they weather beautifully – acquiring a pitted, mossy patina that blends into nature seamlessly. Join the Landcraft Garden Foundation Team as they give you the recipe and raw material to make your own planting vessels. The process will start in the garden; finished vessels will be allowed to cure there until ready to go home.

AGE: For All Ages

WEATHER: Rain or Shine.

SPECIAL NOTES: This is a messy process – please dress appropriately or bring an apron/coveralls. Gloves are recommended. Comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are also recommended. To support a healthy supply of insects for our birds and other insect-feeding animals, we do not spray to manage ticks.

REGISTRATION: Required. Buy now.

Join us for a Honey Harvest workshop! Local Master Beekeeper Chris Kelly of Promise Land Apiaries will guide participants through the wonderful world of beekeeping and harvesting honey. Children accompanied by a paying adult are FREE.

AGE: For All Ages

WEATHER: Rain or Shine.

SPECIAL NOTES: This is a messy process – please dress appropriately or bring an apron/coveralls. Gloves are recommended. Comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are also recommended. To support a healthy supply of insects for our birds and other insect-feeding animals, we do not spray to manage ticks.

REGISTRATION: Required. Buy now.

DESCRIPTION: Sunprinting is the art of reverse shadowing; it relies on a series of chemical reactions to capture an object’s outline and transparency when exposed to sunlight on treated paper. The effect is ethereal. Combine this wonder of science with Landcraft’s enormous palette of leaf shapes, marginalia, and arrangements to make compositions as ghostly and gorgeous as the gardens. Learn the science. Learn the plants and their morphology. Then design using the power of sunlight and water.

Kerry Ann McLean is a horticulturist and garden educator. Trained as a Professional Horticulturist at Longwood Gardens and then a Longwood Senior Horticulturist overseeing the Rose and Topiary Gardens, Kerry Ann brings to the North Fork years of experience as a grounds and estate manager, public gardener, Horticulture Specialist for W. Atlee Burpee Seed Company and plant buyer for Terrain, the garden-lifestyle brand of Urban Outfitters.

AGE: Young Adults

WEATHER: Fair weather only. If raining, workshop will be cancelled with no rain date to follow. To confirm possible cancellation due to weather please call (631) 298-7216.

SPECIAL NOTES: All material will be supplied. Please dress appropriately for events and workshops held outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Required. To sign up, please contact us at info@landcraftgardenfoundation.org with the names of all attendees. Limited seating.

DESCRIPTION: Most herbaceous plants are fleeting – in a season, they grow, then die back to the ground at season’s end. And while a picture is a lasting memory there are other more tactile ways to preserve a moment in a plant’s life. Join Garden Educator Kerry Ann McLean in making forever gardens using collected wildflowers, clay, and plaster and experience the lasting detail of a plaster cast verses the quick tap of a cell phone’s camera app.

Kerry Ann McLean is a horticulturist and garden educator. Trained as a Professional Horticulturist at Longwood Gardens and then a Longwood Senior Horticulturist overseeing the Rose and Topiary Gardens, Kerry Ann brings to the North Fork years of experience as a grounds and estate manager, public gardener, Horticulture Specialist for W. Atlee Burpee Seed Company and plant buyer for Terrain, the garden-lifestyle brand of Urban Outfitters.

AGE: Young Adults

WEATHER: Fair weather only. If raining, workshop will be cancelled with no rain date to follow. To confirm possible cancellation due to weather please call (631) 298-7216.

SPECIAL NOTES: All material will be supplied. Please dress appropriately for events and workshops held outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Required. To sign up, please contact us at info@landcraftgardenfoundation.org with the names of all attendees. Limited capacity.

DESCRIPTION: Topiary is the practice of training any plant into a shape through careful and repeat manicuring. Topiary is also the plant that has been topiarized. At Landcraft Garden Foundation, we often assemble assorted classic topiaries (balls and cones) when building a tablescape for events. Singularly or in a group, nothing elevates display making as quickly as the topiary.

Get the inside scoop on how to train a young houseplant cutting to a photo-ready tabletop topiary. One ball, two balls or three; cones, pillars, spirals and pompoms – learn to clip and shear the perfect form, then make your own. All attendees go home with a clay-potted topiary plant and the know-how to grow it strong.

AGE: For Adult Audiences

WEATHER: Rain or Shine

SPECIAL NOTES: Please bring light working gloves and pruners. Comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are also recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Required. Buy Now.

***REFUND POLICY:  Refunds must be requested at least 7 days before event by e-mailing info@landcraftgardenfoundation.org . Landcraft Garden Foundation Credit will be given for the full ticket price, minus $10 Eventbrite processing fee. Credit must be used within 1 year of event, and can be applied to future workshops, events, garden admission or gift shop purchases.