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Journeys through a Garden's Seasons: Keeping a Garden Blog or Journal (Online Only)

ONLINE | Wednesday, March 15, 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Instructor: Lisa Wagner

$25 Non-member Adult**

(**Arboretum Members receive a 10% discount on all classes.)

Course Capacity: 30

1 hour credit | BREG Elective - Planning, Design & Botanical Illustration

Learn creative ways to plan, record and reflect on your journeys through the seasons in your garden and landscape with award-winning garden blogger Lisa Wagner. Keeping a history of the land you steward is an integral part of your story. To help you get started, Wagner asks, "What are the things that you want to be able to remember about your garden later? What inspires you now in your garden?" 

Sign on for an encouraging talk on setting up satisfying ways to tell your story in this online session. Learn about setting up your blog template in a way that suits you, encouraging reflection and observation as you preserve your garden’s story.

Continue the reflective journey with Wagner's other classes this spring: “A Growing Sense of Place”, onsite at the Arboretum on Wednesday, April 19, and the two-session workshop "Re-visioning Your Home Landscape," online in June June 14 & 21.

Lisa Wagner was the Director of Education at the South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson University for over 20 years. A plant ecologist by background (Ph.D. in Botany, UC Berkeley), she’s interested in native plants, ecological gardening, and promoting habitat restoration, as well as encouraging engagement and creativity in mid-life and beyond. She continues to do presentations and consultations as a volunteer, while continuing to be a keen gardener and committed writer about the natural world.  Her first blog, Natural Gardening (www.naturalgardening.blogspot.com) reflects her observations about gardening and the natural world. Her second blog, Places of the Spirit (www.placesofthespirit.blogspot.com) reflects sense of place and broader observations about being at home in the world. 

Lisa and her husband Tim Spira spend roughly half the year in Asheville, NC, where they’ve surrounded their in-town house with native gardens. They spend the other half of the year in the Northern Appalachians in their cottage in Quebec, where they’re converting a horticultural landscape to a more naturalistic one.

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