Budding Gardeners

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Create a fantasy garden of gnomes and other creatures. Learn about creating a container garden with Jen and Brandi Burnham of Lush Leaves. Then share a cup [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Learn about the benefits that beetles have in your garden. Grace Carter, an extension agent in 4-H youth development at UF|IFAS Duval County Extension Office, will discuss [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE The reasons to grow sunflowers are endless, but here are a few: They attract pest-patrolling birds and bees to improve your harvest, help detox contaminated soil, they [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Children learn how to design a floral arrangement using holiday greenery during this festive event. Budding Gardeners is aimed at children in grades 1-6 to discover gardening, [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Learn about the many benefits of growing lavender and how it is used in health, skin care, food, and more.​ Plant your own lavender seedling to take [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Join Master Gardener Angela Holliman as she discusses one fun way to get into gardening—making terrariums! A terrarium is a miniature garden grown inside a container and [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and environmental awareness with several activities, including planting a seedling to take home and grow and learning about ways you can practice sustainability [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Learn what kinds of peppers will grow well, even in Florida’s summer heat. Plant a seed to take home and grow! Make a pepper-themed art project! Taste [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Children and their families can learn about the wonderful world of succulents, a wildly popular group of plants that have fleshy leaves and stems, such as cacti, [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Children and their families can learn about the importance of growing native plants and how they are crucial to supporting wildlife. Members of the Ixia Chapter of [...]

RESERVE YOUR SPACE Join the Garden Club of Jacksonville and Riverside Avondale Preservation on National CleanUp Day. Children and their families join this national effort to keep the outdoors clean. [...]