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Green Canvas' teaching philosophy stems from effectively sharing our enthusiasm, knowledge and passion for indoor plants and their ability to intrigue, inspire and add life.
Classes are suited for all ages and are structured for a variety of participants including garden clubs, corporate events, organizational health & wellness activities, a hobbyist home plant party, nurseries/green houses, children's birthday parties or youth activities, and museum lectures.
A typical class format has an introduction which highlights the topics history, a display of examples and an interactive, personal component. Classes can be scheduled based on depth of topic and clients interest. All materials are provided for. In all plant design classes' participants create their own living sculpture which they take home.
Topics are diverse and reenergizing introducing plant enthusiasts and newcomers to a wide array of plant ideas. Learners are exposed to a wide variety of rare and unique plants for high impact indoor placement as well as shown new ways to re-design, combine and arrange plants. Other classes explore the art of penjing, bonsai, and indoor water garden design and planting.
Sample class descriptors:
The Art of Succulent Bonsai: Create Your Own Living Sculpture
Bonsai is simply an artistic plant in a pot that can evoke, inspire and create a moment of abandon. Indoor bonsai is the art of inviting the nature in by planting trees from warm climates indoors. Many warm climates experience extended droughts with the trees going without water for months. These exotic, intriguing and picturesque trees are called succulent, xeric and caudiciform and are known as "fat plants" for their swollen and sculptural trunks.
In this course you will learn the art of designing, planting and maintaining bonsai. The first class meeting will cover ideas and techniques, which will develop over the class series. You will create a forest planting using a variety of bonsai cuttings, as well as one fat plant bonsai in a ceramic pot. Choose from a variety of mature and impressive plants that can be enjoyed for years to come. The course includes all plants, pots, and materials for creating two of your own living sculptures.
Invigorate your Space: Indoor Plants in depth
Learn how to add life and beauty to your interior spaces in this indoor gardening course.
- Indoor plant environments: plants for your hot-cold-dry-damp--bright-dark space
- Choosing indoor plants: how and where to buy trees. palms, vines, orchids, bonsai, succulents, terrariums. topiaries and more.
- Watering: easy automatic watering systems that go weeks between watering
- Pest control without toxic chemicals, using safe and reliable techniques to beat your bugs
- Growing under lights
- Presenting plants as art
- Transplanting: when to, how to, do I need to?
- Propagating: making more indoor plants from cuttings, layering, and dividing
- Plants as life givers: improve indoor air quality, suppress molds and bacteria, produce oxygen and enhance well being
- Plants have a unique ability to transform spaces into inspirational, functional and harmonious places to live and work. Bring your plant ideas and issues: you will have ample opportunity to guide the discussion with your input.
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