Ages  8-12 Parents have a night off, while kids have kids have a fun filled night at the Garden. This month’s theme is Nocturnal Insects like moths, beetles, and fire flies. In addition to looking for real insects on a Garden night hike, we’ll create light up fire flies and decorate insect collection jars. As always, we’ll end the class with s’mores toasted over the campfire. Fee: $20 or $10 with Garden membership. Registration Link

Come visit the Garden this weekend for a fun spring scavenger hunt. Use clues to find spring themed stamps hidden throughout the Garden. Scavenger hunt sheets are available in the Gift Shop all weekend and completed scavenger hunts can be redeemed for a small prize. Part of the Family Program Series. Fee: Included with Garden membership or admission.

Come visit the Garden this weekend for a fun spring scavenger hunt. Use clues to find spring themed stamps hidden throughout the Garden. Scavenger hunt sheets are available in the Gift Shop all weekend and completed scavenger hunts can be redeemed for a small prize. Part of the Family Program Series. Fee: Included with Garden membership or admission.

Come visit the Garden this weekend for a fun spring scavenger hunt. Use clues to find spring themed stamps hidden throughout the Garden. Scavenger hunt sheets are available in the Gift Shop all weekend and completed scavenger hunts can be redeemed for a small prize. Part of the Family Program Series. Fee: Included with Garden membership or admission.

Choose a session 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.  Come read An Egg is Quiet and learn about real animal eggs including soft squishy frog eggs, giant ostrich eggs, and leathery lizard eggs. We’ll also look for bird’s nests and real eggs in the Garden and create an egg craft. Fee: Included with Garden membership or admission. Registration Link

Nature Play Day: Fantastic Frogs – Saturday, April 18th from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Nature Play Days are the Garden’s monthly opportunity for preschoolers to learn and play at their own pace. This month’s theme is Fantastic Frogs. We’ll have a frog jump, a lily pad bean bag toss, a pond sensory bin, a sprinkler, a touch table, and more! Fee: Included with Garden membership or admission.

Home Instead Senior Care Foundation is sponsoring free Therapeutic Horticulture classes for senior veterans (55+) and a companion at Cape Fear Botanical Garden in March and April. Classes will teach gardening skills and concepts with the goal of improving wellness through increased mobility, socialization and independence. Choose from a 6-week series, "Grow Easy: Gardening with Seniors" and one-day classes "Getting Back in the Garden" and "Hope Grows: Seasoned Gardening." Giving back to the garden and community through harvesting, propagation, container gardening or…

Gardenmania is postponed. Date to be determined. In partnership with the Master Gardeners of Cumberland County, the public will be invited to attend a day of “all things” gardening. Plans are underway for inviting guest speakers who are experts in Gardenscaping, Foodscaping, and Farm to Table food preparation. There will be an area for children, as well as stations in the Garden set aside for “Critters”, gardening Q and A, and creating your own containers for gardening. Local artists and…