Bok Tower Gardens > Cultivating Exploration > Lifelong Learning

Lifelong Learning

Bok Tower Gardens is a place of discovery. To that end, we offered a number of intriguing adult learning opportunities in 2008 and 2009 as companions to the Gardens visitation experience:

Hands-on gardening classes and workshops

• Azalea gardening
• Camellia gardening
• Organic gardening
• Japanese paperfolding workshop
• Watercolor classes
• Nature journal class
• Repoussé art workshop
• Painting on silk workshop

Lectures and previews

• Tiffany’s “Dream Garden” mural lecture
• Bob Patterson’s Florida: Tales from the Homeplace
• Travel with Bok Preview Nights
• Living History performances
• Lunch n’ Learn

Cultural excursions

• Bioluminescent night paddle
• Touring southeast Florida gardens and museums
• Key West

Guided nature hikes

• Wildlife Safari- Avon Park, Myakka State Park, Colt Creek State Park, Lemon Bay watershed
• Night Hike at Brooker Creek

Overseas travel

• Egypt and China