Our Classes will be Held on Saturdays for the Rest of the Season

Our Classes will be Held on Saturdays for the Rest of the Season

• Berry, grape, fig, and pomegranate are all covered in this juicy, fast pace class.
• You will have bowls of fruit picked fresh from the gardens after this week’s class.

Our Classes will be Held on Saturdays for the Rest of the Season

We’ll take an in-depth look at how to be successful when planting your personal paradise. We’ll discuss techniques for brighter, more beautiful gardens, and how to keep them healthy.

This special Friday afternoon garden class kicks off our 2023 Spring Open House by showcasing the first blooming colors of spring many have never been seen until now: salvias, pansies, gaillardia, and more.  “We are excited to introduce the 2023 newest introductions at this year’s start of the season,” Ken Lain, owner.

It was a long mountain winter, and we’re all ready for color in the garden! We’ve hand-picked the finest flowers from our favorite farms to go and grow in your garden. Choose, combine, and create beds bursting with blossoms with exclusive, new annual, and perennial flowers in an array of vibrant varieties.

We’ll cover the best heirloom varieties to local favorites, and highlight soil preparation, best practices, and care. Let’s get ready to plant!

This class covers not only the evergreens that grow most successfully, but the simple steps to protect them from stress and environmental intruders like borers and bark beetle, and more.

Bring on Spring!! Our Saturday Garden Class will be part of a weekend-long event including our plant experts, special guest speakers, and gorgeous new plants! Talk directly with the growers and touch this year’s exclusive plant introductions you’ll find only find at Watters.  Advanced gardeners and newcomers alike will learn about all-things-spring this weekend as we go geeky with plants.

Our Classes are held in our Upper Greenhouse which is heated for the comfort of our Winter Hearty Plants, but not necessarily People.

Please come dressed with Weather Appropriate Clothing

Ready, set, grow! Late winter is the ideal window to start wildflower seeds outdoors, but you can’t just chuck them in the landscape and expect success. We share all the local tips that ensure these bloomers blossom beautifully. You’ll know the best seed, soils, food, and techniques that bring on the color this spring.

Our Classes are held in our Upper Greenhouse which is heated for the comfort of our Winter Hearty Plants, but not necessarily People.

Please come dressed with Weather Appropriate Clothing

Any garden can pop with flares of color with the right plants. We’ll cover the best local companion plants—flowers, evergreens, and more–for maximum seasonal color, and the right places to place them for gardening success. Attendees will hear how our consultants help gardeners design new life for neglected, tired, or just blank slate landscapes. Bring a pencil and paper for notes, and questions for our experts after this class. 

Our Classes are held in our Upper Greenhouse which is heated for the comfort of our Winter Hearty Plants, but not necessarily People.

Please come dressed with Weather Appropriate Clothing

We believe plants make people happier, and not just outside, but inside, too! Houseplants brighten our lives, and clean the air we breathe, but not all are created equal when grown in an arid climate. You’ll learn the top plants grown indoors and how to care for them. Learn best practices for watering, light placement, and how to treat and prevent pests and problems.

With our Pollinator Plant Giveaway!

When we plant for pollinators, we all win. Let us help you get your pollinator garden off to a great start with a chance to win one of 10 free 1-gallon pollinator-friendly plants from Monrovia.

Visit the Garden Center to scan our entry code or enter online at https://go.monrovia.com/bee-a-winner to be entered in the random drawing.

Enter from June 1, 2022, thru June 16, 2022, at noon EST. Winners will be announced the week of June 19 and have until June 30, 2023 to pick up their free plant from  the Garden Center at 1815 Iron Springs Rd Prescott Az 86305.

Good luck!

• Shrubs are the backbone of a good design.
• They provide essential structure, beauty, fragrance and color with a great variety of shapes.
• Rock landscapes without shrubs tend to look strange, immature and lacking.
• Learn how to use shrubs to create simple but effective planting combinations for a design impact that will WOW all four seasons of the year.
• Free to gardeners that want more from their yard. 

• Are all the rage right now, and a great choice for busy gardeners!
• These are the toughest, drought-tolerant plant that will grow like gangbusters in a tight space with very little care.
• Students will learn how to use the local favorites that brings warm color and texture to your home.

• Landscapes in autumn can be stunning, but only with proper planning.
• This easy care advice will bring the silver and blues out of the evergreens, showcasing brilliant bright foliage and crazy colored flowers.
• Make this the brightest fall of all!

• Get the most out of your landscape with this easy to use checklist of fall care.
• Bring the color out of your fall gardens, reduce bugs next spring, or simply put your landscape to bed with these easy to use ideas.

• After this class, you’ll have what it takes to design great container gardens that sparkle in the afternoon heat.
• Learn about proper watering, the best foods, companion plants, and more.
• Everyone is going to comment on your potting success!
• Bring your own container or buy one a new and we’ll have design stations open, with expert advice on hand

• Tired of looking at the neighbor’s RV?
• This class shows off the best, fastest growing plants to fill in your privacy screens!
• You can screen unsightly neighbors, enhance your view, or block pesky traffic and cut noise and light pollution.
• Experts will be on hand to help individuals with unique situations.

• Rock landscapes without these core plants tend to look strange, immature and lacking.
• Learn how to garden with these simple, but effective planting combinations for a design that WOWs all four seasons of the year.

• Vines climb quickly up fence posts, pergolas, barbed wire, walls and trellis.
• They block, screen, and shade better than any other plants in the nursery, but not all vines are created equal.
• Learn these vines favorite locals, sun and shade lovers, and all the advice to get these bloomers climbing.

• Privacy, shade, color, evergreen, and blooms.
• We cover trees from every angle.
• With so many choices, picking the perfect tree can seem overwhelming, but not after this class.
• Our horticultural team will be on-hand after the class to help with individual tree situations.
• Free tree planting guide to all attendees.

• Learn all the mountain secrets to local garden success.
• This is an information packed class guaranteed to increase garden blooms and fruit this year.
• Learn about growing zones, frost dates, soils and more; you’ll know exactly what to do in the gardens after this class.

• Evergreens can be the anchor of any landscape, providing color and privacy year-round.
• We’ll dispel the myth that the only evergreens are pine trees, when in fact they can be a multitude of different shapes, colors, and sizes—there are even evergreens that aren’t green!

• Late summer is not only the peak of bug season, there’s also intense pressure from furry visitors in our yards.
• Students start with best practices to keep javelina and pack rats away, then quickly move to solutions for grasshoppers and tomato worms.
• You can have a nice yard with these easy-to-use tips and a few key plant choices.
• Frustrated gardeners will have all the tools they need to keep the garden pest free!

• Privacy, shade, color, evergreen and blooms.
• We cover trees for every situation, especially small gardens, including trees for country gardens and trees for difficult sites.
• Trees for blossom, bark, fruit and colorful autumn foliage.
• With so many choices picking the perfect tree can be overwhelming, but not after this class.
• Free tree planting guide to students after this class.

• Tired of looking at the neighbor’s RV?
• This class shows off the best, fastest growing plants to fill in your privacy screens!
• You can screen unsightly neighbors, enhance your view, or block pesky traffic and cut noise and light pollution.
• Experts will be on hand to help individuals with unique situations.

• How to Heal Sick Plants -As we enter summer the heat, bugs and disease take its toll in the gardens.
• Frustrated gardens will have insight into proper water, grasshopper control and how to get the most out of your vegetable gardens.
• Frustrated gardeners will have all the tools they need to keep the gardens pest free!
• You can have a nice yard with these easy-to-use tips and a few key plant choices.

• Learn all the mountain secrets to local garden success.
• This is an information packed class guaranteed to increase garden blooms and fruit this year.
• Learn about growing zones, frost dates, soils and more; you’ll know exactly what to do in the gardens after this class.

• Have your landscape and eat it, too!
• We’ll share the tips, tricks, and recipes that make for a better, healthier and tastier landscape.
• Plant experts will be on hand after the class that specializes in fruiting designs that can be eaten after planting.

• June is the ideal month to plant perennials in the gardens.
• Students learn how design seasonally for a continual 4-season bloom in the garden.
• Notable mentions will be the native and heat loving flowers that bloom without any care at all.
• All local & All Free.