Oak Park Landscape & Water Garden Center - Class Descriptions

Concrete leaf castings add the perfect, personalized touch to any garden. In less than 2 hours, you can learn the techniques for making garden ornaments with concrete and natural materials you find in your own backyard. You will take home the leaf castings you make during class.
Instructors: Diane Giddens & Sherry Schroeder

Bigger doesn't mean better! You can develop beautiful landscapes without all that heavy lifting - by creating miniature gardens or "fairy gardens" in your home or outdoors. Instructors will walk you through the basics of scale, suitable plants, and personalizing your small-scale landscape. Even better, you'll take a miniature garden home with you.
Instructors: Diane Giddens & Sherry Schroeder

Love the look of old stone troughs, but feel they are too heavy to manage? You can learn the method of making your own that is a fraction of the weight. While maintaining the stone look. All supplies are provided - at the end of the class you will take home a nice stone trough - lite!
Instructors: Diane Giddens & Sherry Schroeder

Bigger doesn't mean better! You can develop Topiary - the art of training plants into interesting shapes. Bring pruners or snips if you have them. We provide the plants. You'll take two topiaries home with you - a wreath and a tiny tree!
Instructors: Diane Giddens & Sherry Schroeder