Tuesday Gardening Series
Whether you are just discovering your green thumb or you have two green hands, these lunchtime talks hosted by Reynolda Gardens are for all gardening levels. This year, the popular series will be offered both online and in-person at Reynolda House Museum inside the auditorium (located in the Babcock Wing). Advance registration is required.
Reynolda Gardens is always free and open to the public year-round from dawn to dusk. All proceeds from the Tuesday Gardening Series goes toward preserving the Gardens’s more than 134 acres.
Spring 2026
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Sep 1, 2026, 12:30pm — 1:30pm
Get an inside look at what’s included in the popular annual Fall Plant Sale at Reynolda Gardens. Gardens Director Jon Roethling will share seasonal must-haves and identify those in short supply so y…
Sep 22, 2026, 12:30pm — 1:30pm
Kale yeah! Learn how to grow a cool season vegetable garden that works for your needs without all the sweat. We’ll discuss unique vegetable plants that thrive between October – April, artf…
Sep 29, 2026, 12:30pm — 1:30pm
Join Art Chadwick of Chadwick and Son, Orchids Inc. (Richmod, VA) for an informative lecture on Cattleya orchids. For as long as cattleya hybrids have been made, breeders have been naming them after p…
Oct 13, 2026, 12:30pm — 1:30pm
Join John Lonsdale, owner of Edgewood Gardens, a rare plant nursery and garden in Exton, PA for a journey exploring a wide variety of the many uncommon and beautiful shade and sun-loving “bulbs” w…
Nov 10, 2026, 12:30pm — 1:30pm
Experience a true Cinderella tale — the transformation of the poinsettia from a lanky shrub into one of the world’s most iconic plants. Its rise to fame weaves together an intriguing story of bota…
Nov 17, 2026, 12:30pm — 1:30pm
John Buettner and John Dole, both life-long gardeners, tend a one acre garden at their home on the south side of Raleigh, North Carolina. Their yard is an exploration in the typical and unusual variet…