Above garden featured in our April 8th LA garden tour. Design: Laura Morton, APLD, Laura Morton Design; Photo: Ross Whitaker
UPCOMING EVENTS
bold = APLD or APLD sponsor event
MAY
MAY 5-6: Bringing Back the Natives Tour and Spring Native Plant Extravaganza in the SF East Bay.
MAY 5: Eco-Friendly Garden Tour, in Sonoma & Northern Marin Counties.
MAY 8: The Less Is More Garden, an APLD Bay Area Speaker Series with APLD member & author Susan Morrison in Lafayette.
MAY 9-11: CA Society for Ecological Restoration Annual Conference in San Diego.
MAY 17: Spring Field Day with Mountain States Wholesale Nursery and Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano.
MAY 18: Watsonville Nursery Tour, an APLD Bay Area full-day event in Watsonville.
MAY 22: Hot Color, Dry Garden, an APLD Greater LA Speaker Series event with Nan Sterman in Pasadena.
MAY 23: Plant Palette Development, an APLD Bay Area Designer Forum in Palo Alto.
JUNE
JUNE 12: Time Management Techniques, an APLD Bay Area Designer Forum in Lafayette.
JUNE 14: Integrated Pest Management II, a half-day seminar by ReScape California in Sacramento.
JUNE 16: Ruth Bancroft Garden Sculpture in the Garden opening night in Walnut Creek.
JUNE 20: APLD Bay Area Annual Summer Celebration at the UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley.
JUNE 27: From Traditional to Sustainable, an APLD Bay Area Speaker Series presentation by Richard Hayden, APLD member and director of the Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto.
APRIL
APR 7-8: A River Runs Through It, a two-day regional event presented by APLD Greater Los Angeles and San Diego, with speakers at Descanso gardens in La Cañada Flintridge and a garden tour in Los Angeles.
APR 7-8: Going Native Garden Tour, a free tour of native gardens in the SF Bay Area.
APR 9-10: Greening the Golden State Conference in Sacramento.
APR 10: Website Renovation, an APLD Bay Area panel discussion in Lafayette about boosting your online presence.
APR 10: National Watershed and Stormwater Conference, webcast and live in Maryland and Virginia.
APR 17: Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery hosts an event at the Proven Winners CA Spring Trials Site at the Historic Kirigin Cellars in Gilroy.
APR 18: Village Nurseries Plant Expedition, an exclusive behind-the-scenes day at the 2018 California Spring Plant Trials in Santa Paula. RSVP and questions: swiest@villagenurseries.com
APR 19: Get Fired Up for the Back Yard, a fire feature event by APLD Bay Area and gold sponsor Peninsula Building Materials event in Mountain View.
APR 23-26: Old Growth/New Growth, the 84th Annual Western Chapter International Society of Arboriculture (WCISA) conference and trade show in Santa Rosa.
APR 25: Sustainable Landscapes: In What Material Should We Build?, a presentation with UC Berkeley lecturer and author Caren Yglesias; hosted by APLD Bay Area and gold sponsor Lyngso Garden Materials, in San Carlos.
APR 25: Landscape Design Intensive, a presentation by the American Garden School in Sonoma.
APR 28: PerkPave (pervious concrete) workshop with APLD Sacramento District in Davis. RSVP to ryan@perktop.com.
THE QUEST FOR THE BEST: UC Davis Landscape Plant Irrigation Trials
For the past 12 years, University of California researchers have been performing irrigation trials to evaluate landscape plants for performance with low water. This information has been informing decisions on plant marketing, hydrozoning, and suitability of new cultivars for northern California.
Three times a year UC Landscape Plant Irrigation Trials (LPIT) invites members of the professional landscape, nursery, and horticulture industries to the UC Davis field site for an Open House Ratings Day. The spring event will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, May 1 and 2, 8am–12pm (you may choose either day). You will be able to walk through the fields, rate a sample of each exciting new cultivar at the beginning of its second summer in the ground, and chat with researchers about the trials and plant water use.
All new landscape plants undergo evaluation in plant trials before being introduced to the market. At the University of California, these trials take on the additional aspect of screening for performance under several levels of reduced irrigation to judge their suitability for California’s low-water landscapes, and to place them in the WUCOLS water-use categories of Low, Moderate, or High.
All plants in the trials will have been irrigated for their first full year on an establishment irrigation schedule at 80-100% of ET0 (reference evapotranspiration). Their second year they will receive one of three irrigation treatments aligned with the WUCOLS categories.
Our participants from the last few years have unanimously reported the great insight gained in seeing new plants in the ground, and participation has doubled each of the last two years. To join us on one of the days, you must register for the event by clicking here. After registering, you will receive directions and other information in a reminder email one week before the event. We value your input and hope to see you there!