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The October 9th Arboretum Plant Sale, with the theme “Growing a Green Future”, has been featured in the October issue of Sunset Magazine!

We are very excited to announce a generous endowment of $25,000 (built through a pledge of $5,000/year over five years) from our long-time friends and supporters, Bret Hewitt and Deb Pinkerton. In addition, they have pledged $10,000 in current use gifts over the next five years.

Another pilot conversion project is the Arboretum meadow turf conversion at Shields Oak Grove. This project continues moving forward as well.  Initial herbicide treatments took place last week just before the storms moved in.  The next step will be a retrofit of the irrigation system, followed by seeding around November 15 with purple needlegrass, a native California grass.

On July 22nd 2011, the final stone was set in place to cap completion of the campus’s Geology GATEway Garden located on the south and east side of the Earth & Physical Sciences Building.

We are so proud that the Good Life Garden is featured on the cover of UC Davis Undergraduate Admissions recruitment materials.

Did you know that the Sign Shop, formerly part of Facilities Management, is now part of Campus Planning and Community Resources? On September 22nd it moved into a newly renovated shop space located at Civil & Industrial Services’ location on Garrod Road in West Campus. This new alignment will consolidate the fabrication and printing of signage used for events, wayfinding,  street identification and traffic control.

As part of the UC Davis Public Garden Initiative, the campus will undertake a master planning effort to redesign portions of the campus landscape to save money, improve campus aesthetics, and provide more opportunities for teaching, research, and community engagement.

The Sac Bee featured the UC Davis Arboretum’s 75th Anniversary and also included news about about our public garden initiative.

Last Saturday’s Friends of the UC Davis Arboretum Plant Faire & Sale attracted over 1,300 people–one of the best attended ever–with gross sales estimated to be well above $56,000; a remarkable feat considering fewer people are landscaping during this economic downturn.