Garden Webinar Videos
From garden history, to design and renovation, our Garden Webinars cover topics designed to increase your knowledge and prepare you for the gardening season. Please see below for a summary of our previous lectures and to purchase access to the recorded video.
Webinar Video Access
General Admission: $30/class
Cranbrook House & Gardens Auxiliary Members: $25/class
The link to view the video will be emailed to you from houseandgardens@cranbrook.edu within three business days of your purchase.
Designing Shady Areas
Speaker: Janet Macunovich
Recorded Tuesday, February 16, 2021
A shady retreat is one of the most pleasant types of gardens, but it can be a challenge to design for low light. This is a simple, practical approach to create beauty in the shade.
Simplifying a Garden
Speaker: Janet Macunovich
Recorded Tuesday, February 23, 2021
We all want more garden, but our time is limited and for many, so are our physical abilities. How to keep on growing in less time, with less effort.
Continuous Color in a Garden
Speaker: Janet Macunovich
Recorded Tuesday, March 2, 2021
It is not only what you plant but how you arrange and tend the players that makes a garden colorful from March to November. This talk is the complete how-to of color.
Adding Life to a Garden: Birds, Butterflies, and Beneficial Insects
Speaker: Janet Macunovich
Recorded Tuesday, March 9, 2021
What you need to know to plant the kinds of plants in the kind of design that attracts birds, butterflies, pollinators and other beneficial insects.
The Pest-free Garden
Speaker: Janet Macunovich
Recorded Tuesday, March 16, 2021
How to grow plants so they can fend for themselves or need only minimal help from the gardener. With examples of problems you almost certainly confront in your own garden.
Great Plant Combinations
Speaker: Janet Macunovich
Recorded Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Most gardeners aim for year-round interest, but sometimes the design process gets bogged down in looking for color alone. In this recorded webinar, expert gardener Janet Macunovich offers suggestions for trees, shrubs, and perennials that not only look great together for their seasonal colors but also for their combined forms, textures, and foliage characteristics.
Renovating a Perennial Bed
Speaker: Janet Macunovich
Recorded Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Perennials don't last forever -- beds that are six or seven years old benefit greatly from a total or partial remake. If your bed has become worn out, some plants have grown too large and others have melted away, or you're just plain tired of looking at the same old stuff, this class is for you. In this recorded webinar, expert gardener Janet Macunovich provides a step-by-step approach to give old plants and soil new life, rekindle faded glory, and make care easier.
