Classes, Workshops & Events!
At SummerWinds Nursery, we offer great platforms for group learning—aimed at making all your gardening endeavors a success.
Learn ‘n Grow Classes
FREE, informative classes—on a wide variety of topics—help give you the tools you need to make all your gardening endeavors a success! Classes are approximately 30 minutes long and may increase or decrease in duration, based on the dynamics of the conversation. Classes are generally delivered by a SummerWinds Trusted Garden Advisor.
Make ‘n Take Workshops
These hands-on workshops are available for a nominal fee. Work one-on-one with the instructor to perfect your creation! The price of the workshop includes only those materials specified within the workshop description. Attend a workshop with friends or family and explore your creative side!
Children's Classes & Workshops: Please note that all children attending a class or workshop must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the class/workshop.
Caring For Your Tropical Houseplants
A FREE 30 min. Learn 'n Grow Class
We all love the lush, vibrant foliage of tropical houseplants, but California’s dry heat can make it a challenge to keep those leaves pristine! – in this FREE 30 min Learn ‘n Grow Class, come learn about the summertime care for your humidity-loving houseplants and fill your home with green!
Just For Kids Summer Make 'n Take Planter
A FREE 30 min. Learn 'n Grow Class
“Teach the children. We don’t matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin-flowers. And the frisky ones–inkberry, lamb’s-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones–rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion.” (Mary Oliver, Upstream)
Let’s get those little fingers in the dirt! Join us for this FREE Make n’ Take Workshop for children where we will walk you and your child through the simple steps of planting a small annual that you can then take home and care for all summer long!
When registering for this class, please register your child or children only - No need to include yourself or any other adult in the count. We are just looking for a head count so that we know how many pots and plants to have ready for the class.
Create A "Conversational Piece" Succulent Dish
A FREE 30 min. Learn 'n Grow Class
Succulents are available in so many varieties with various textures and colors, making them a great medium for design. In this FREE 30 minute Learn‘n Grow class, learn how to create a "Conversational Piece" Succulent Dish. We will show you which elements are best to incorporate in containers and how to care for them.
Easy Care Houseplants
A FREE 30 min. Learn 'n Grow Class
Summer is almost over! – join us for a FREE 30 min Learn n’ Grow class on easy-care houseplants that you can send along with your grad to college or take back with you to the office to beat the back-to-work blues with a breath of fresh air!
Dry Shade Garden
A FREE 30 min. Learn 'n Grow Class
Some areas of your garden may require plants that need shade plus live with little water. Those plants do exist! In this FREE 30 minute Learn 'n Grow class, learn which plants will not only thrive in the shade, they are drought tolerant too. This crazy combination may be the cure for the trouble spots in your landscape.
Scented Container Garden
A FREE 30 min. Learn 'n Grow Class
In this FREE Learn 'n Grow class, learn which plants to incorporate into your containers and surrounding landscape to create a lovely scented patio setting.
Fall Container Garden
A FREE 30 min. Learn 'n Grow Class
Take advantage of the season’s abundance of color and texture by creating a striking fall planted arrangement. In this FREE 30 minute Learn‘n Grow class, our garden design experts will demonstrate how to implement the best of the season to create a stunning fall garden focal piece.
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