Create Your own Hand-tied Wreath in time for the Holiday Season!
Add a personal touch to the holiday with a traditional wreath hand-made by you! We will guide you through designing and crafting your own hand-tied wreath, incorporating beautiful and aromatic seasonal elements.
As a follow up to our Art of Foraging demonstration held in November—when we discussed where to find foliage, berries, seed pods, and acorns to create an autumnal wreath—you are invited back to use your foraging skills to create a wonderful winter centerpiece. (Newcomers are welcome, but should read this post thoroughly and may wish to call for more information).
Calgo horticulturalist Patti Dixon will guide your efforts. We will provide the container, floral foam, and candles - you will provide your own evergreen boughs! Patti will show you how to trim the evergreens and build a long lasting seasonal arrangement.
One of our most popular events!
Save the date! Over 50 artists—favorites and new—will exhibit their works and wares: watercolor and acrylic painters, jewelers, potters, photographers, and many others with unique, creative ways of expression. Live music starting at noon. Stroll our beautiful grounds, enjoy the seasonal plants and flowers, relax on the patio, get a snack at The Tulip Tree Café…and of course support your local artists.
Join us for a discussion on the weird and wonderful world of air plants.
Learn about where they are from, how they survive, and tips and tricks to grow them successfully. We will also demonstrate different ways to display and craft with them. Each participant will go home with their own air plant creation.
Just in time for Mother's Day, you can make a gift terrarium!
Garden terrariums make a fresh and interesting addition to any indoor space. We'll guide you through the hands-on process of building your own unique creation.
Craft a beautiful living wreath that, with proper care, will last through the summer and into autumn.
Create a fern wreath choosing from our gorgeous assortment of ferns, or a succulent plant wreath using some of the many varieties we will have on hand. At home you can proudly display your wreath hanging on a wall or door, or lying on an outdoor table.
Succulents are all the rage!
These low maintenance beauties are some of the most fun and interesting houseplants around. Join us for a demonstration to learn about different types of succulents, how to plant them, how to display them—and even better—how to divide them and make more!
The Yoga Loft and Calgo Gardens have teamed up once again to bring you one of your favorites!
Experience a peaceful day of angel readings, crystals, Reiki, psychic readings, spirit messages, shopping & much, much more!
In this workshop you will create a necklace and ring using live succulents.
Dana Vargo of Flowers From the Farm, NJ will lead the class and offer helpful hints on how to propagate your succulents. All participants will be given a tube of floral glue for your own future projects.
Have any old tools lying around that you might want to repurpose?
Why not plant up a shovel, hoe, rake or any garden object you have. Use succulents as shown, ferns, or any other annual you prefer and display on a shed or other structure that you fancy!
Monarch butterfly populations are declining due to loss of habitat.
A Monarch Waystation is simply a garden that has both milkweed plants—which Monarchs feed on as caterpillars—and nectar plants that they use for nourishment as butterflies. Join us as we discuss the life of the Monarch and observe the various stages of development that are currently right here at Calgo.
Yes, that's right, we mean you will use real coffee as a painting medium!
Our instructor, Carolyn Tischer Bartlett, was formally trained as a watercolorist at an early age. She later attended the Paier School of Art in Hamden, Connecticut. In Bartlett's early career, she was known as a portrait artist and figure painter, today she is recognized as a landscape, still life, and animal painter.
