Fine Gardening's Pro Training Suite

Training Package Highlights: 

- 12 in-depth courses covering everything from advanced air sealing, HVAC to interior finish carpentry

- Over 45 hours of expert, practitioner- led instruction

- 25 AIA Continuing Education Credits included

- Unlimited seats for your entire team—architects, project managers, field staff, and apprentices

- On-demand access—train anytime, from any location

COURSES INCLUDED: 

Sustainability In The Garden

Join us as we take a deep dive into the complex and sometimes controversial gardening topic of sustainability. This on-demand lecture series features four separate classes related to the overall theme. Each highly engaging session is modeled after a college course and is taught by a leading expert in the field. With each class you’ll receive not only in-depth instruction but also informative handouts to help you understand and visualize the concepts being discussed. Each class is offered on-demand, so you can view it at your leisure.

Plants For A Better Planet

Can plants really save the planet? The presenters of this three-part course think so, and they will share exactly why and how they think you can help make that happen. 

Flourishing in the
Shade Garden

In this immersive online course, you will learn how to make the dark areas of your yard shine. Instructor Ed Lyon started his journey into ornamental gardening almost 30 years ago. Across that expanse of time, he owned four properties—all with shaded areas—so he was compelled to get serious about addressing shade issues to create display beds. He also became passionate about helping to educate other gardeners about succeeding in the shade.

Drought-Resistant Gardening Ideas

It’s easy to feel helpless in the face of unprecedented drought, water restrictions, and soaring temperatures—but we gardeners are not powerless. With careful planning we can create beautiful, drought-resilient gardens that thrive no matter what the weather may bring. And by applying water-conservation techniques in our backyards, we not only lessen our dependency on supplemental water but also help to preserve and protect natural waterways downstream.

Garden Design Ideas That Work

A 3-part lecture series in partnership with Garden Master Class. 
Class 1: Reimagining the Mixed Border, Noel Kingsbury
Class 2: The Herbaceous Design Process: Conception, Production and Refinement, Elliot Forsyth
Class 3: Planting the Smaller Urban Garden, Annie Guilfoyle

The Ultimate Guide to Container Design with Barbara Libner

If you are ready to take your container design to the next level, join us for this course with Barbara Libner, who has been designing stunning containers professionally for over two decades. Barbara will walk you through every step of creating the perfect container as she shares her tips and techniques for better plant combinations, including numerous examples from her own designs and recipes you can follow on your own.

The Essential Guide to Landscape Design

The front yard is so important for any home. It should invite, guide, and welcome friends and guests. It should accentuate your home and its key architectural elements and, ideally, hide its flaws. To create such a space requires detailed planning and informed design decisions. In this in-depth course, professional landscape designer Courtney Olander will illustrate how to use basic design strategies to create a yard that is fun and functional, a space that not only makes you smile when you arrive but also adds value to your home.

Seed Starting Made Simple:
A Step-by-Step Guide

Starting plants from seed opens a world of possibilities to gardeners of all skill levels. Many vegetables, annual flowers, and even perennial plants can be started from seed using a few basic supplies and easy-to-master techniques. This can be an economical way to fill garden space and enjoy a much wider variety of plants than you could find in any nursery. In this course, horticulturist Niki Jabbour will share tips and tricks from her decades of starting seeds. After covering the basics, she will delve into more advanced topics such as timing and stratification. Participants will learn about which tools and supplies the pros recommend to make seed-starting easier, and how to set up a simple DIY lighting system. Build your gardening skills and enjoy the satisfying feeling of growing plants from scratch with this fun, fast-paced course.

Small Shrubs With Big Impact

Many modern landscapes are small. The amount of space we have to garden is shrinking, as people want the blend of suburban life along with the conveniences of city living. Even where space might be available, a lot of avid gardeners still have other interests and obligations, leaving less time to cultivate a large plot. When space and time are at a premium, turning to small shrubs can be the answer. In this webinar, Mark Weathington, director of the acclaimed JC Raulston Arboretum in North Carolina, will share some of his top shrub picks for creating diversity, interest, and excitement where space is limited and every plant must earn its place in the garden.

Trees That Always Please

Trees are a big investment. This isn’t only because they often have a hefty price tag, but also because they take up a lot of garden real estate and aren’t plants that you’ll be able to readily relocate. When choosing a tree, it’s important to make sure it performs in all four seasons. It shouldn’t just have lovely spring blooms and decent fall color. It should also have winter interest and other noteworthy traits that shine when it’s not at its peak. And a tree should be largely pest- and disease-free, with low needs when it comes to care. After all, who wants to invest in a plant that will require 50 years of high maintenance?

Finding Your Gardening Style

How do you begin the process of designing or refining your own gardens, especially when there are so many things that you need to take into consideration? In this class, award-winning UK garden designer Annie Guilfoyle will guide you through the elements that make for a successful design and show you how to develop a garden that really suits your taste and lifestyle. This webinar will focus on how to use sketching and observation as tools to develop your technique. The process of designing your space should be fun, according to Annie, so she’ll share insights for how to develop your style using the influences of things you really like, such as textiles, art, and architecture. There will be plenty of suggestions on how to start your design process and gather inspiration—and, of course, we will touch on those oh-so-important plants.