Designing A Winter Garden

Plants & strategies for seasonal delight

Tired of drab and empty looking winter gardens? In disbelief that tans and browns can look as incredible as a rainbow of summer colors? Wondering how you can have a beautiful off-season garden that also supports pollinators and birds without a fall clean up?

We'll explore dozens of perennial flowers and grasses with stunning fall color as well as ornamental winter shape and seed heads. Design strategies & landscape examples of stunning winter gardens are also explored to inspire your creativity. Join award-winning author, speaker, and garden designer Benjamin Vogt on a sixty-minute journey to inspire and invigorate your natural landscape. You can make a difference for wildlife!

All sales are final and no refunds will be issued. Class is self paced and remains online at the sole discretion of the author. You have unlimited access to the class as long at it remains online. Class and all material is the sole copyright of Benjamin Vogt (author) and can't be rebroadcast, transcribed, or shared in any way without the prior written permission of the author.


Your Instructor


Benjamin Vogt
Benjamin Vogt

Benjamin Vogt is owner of Prairie Up, formerly Monarch Gardens, offering garden design, online classes, workshops, webinars, and guidebooks. He is the author of A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future, as well as Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design. His forthcoming book, Unlawning America, will be released by Timber Press in 2026/27. Benjamin’s work has been featured in Dwell, Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Midwest Living, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He is based in Nebraska and works nationally.


Course Curriculum


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Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We're truly sorry about that, however, courses are nonrefundable. All sales are final.

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