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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (RIDGELY, MD—JANUARY 14, 2008)

Adkins Arboretum Announces Adult Education Programs

Adkins Arboretum is offering a full slate of programs in February, March and April focusing on winter gardens, spring flowers, and art inspired by nature. Programs include:

Winter Gardening Series
Wednesdays, February 13 through March 12, 1–2:30 p.m.
What does the gardener do in winter? Plan for the spring. This year’s gardening series offers classes for choosing the right plant for the right place and for maintaining the garden through winter. Classes will focus on site analysis, gardening with native plants, favorite native trees, native alternatives to invasive ornamental plants, and pruning.

Pysanky: The Art of Ukranian Eggs
Thursday, March 6, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
Create a beautiful egg in a centuries-old Ukranian tradition. These eggs use symbolic motifs rooted in nature and the cycles of life, including spiders and sheaves of wheat, spirals, stars and circles, bees, acorns, birds, and mammals.

Spring Flowers Hike
Wednesday, April 9, 1–2:30 p.m.
Take a hike to discover spring’s ephemeral wildflowers. April brings the earliest spring blooms of bloodroot, spring beauty, spicebush and trout lily. Learn to identify these beautiful flowers and hear about their natural history.

Journal Writing with Nature Spring Series
A workshop about the discovery of nature through art and words
April 2, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.; May 7, June 4, 9 a.m.–noon
Participants will create journal writing books with artist Sue Stockman at the April session and join Eastern Shore poet and writer Erica Weick in associating with nature and journaling for the May and June sessions. This series offers the opportunity for guided introspection, nature observation and much writing. New and experienced writers are welcome, as are those who express themselves through drawing or music.