Looking for fresh ideas of plants to add to your garden or landscape? Consider one or more of these plants as you shop our Fall 2022 plant sale fundraisers.
This fall, as part of our affiliation with Bee Campus USA, the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden is encouraging residents to “leave the leaves”, a seasonal effort to provide habitat for beneficial insects, pollinators, and other invertebrates.
Hoop net traps are being placed on an intermittent basis to harmlessly sample turtles throughout the Arboretum Waterway and Putah Creek over the next few months. It's all part of active turtle research study to understand how our native turtle populations are affected by non-native turtle species in addition, scientists hope to learn how we to best support native species recovery and conservation.
Our community’s urban forest provides public health, environmental and economic benefits to Davis community members everyday. To highlight this important resource, Tree Davis and the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden have teamed up to install educational tree tags across the Davis landscape.
During the month of May, the City of Davis and UC Davis are looking for early community input on a possible joint habitat enhancement and public access project called “Putah Creek Wetlands,” which would be located on a 32-acre parcel along the South Fork of Putah Creek near the Old Davis Road Bridge.
We are fortunate to live in California, with its wondrous diversity of flora and large natural areas that are not only places of beauty but also sources of spiritual and emotional refreshment.
After years of work and research on the Texas Tree Trials Research Project, Arboretum and Public Garden staff and Learning by Leading™ students have started planting test trees at trial sites.
A 1200 SF floating solar aeration system will be installed on the west end of the UC Davis Arboretum Waterway to research how this low-cost clean energy treatment works to circulate water and prevent algae build up.
A new $5.4 million grant from the California Natural Resources Agency will allow UC Davis to complete the Arboretum Waterway Flood Protection and Habitat Enhancement Project.
