Blog & News Articles

Blog & News Articles

March specials for members at Davis Ace

Thank you Davis Ace for providing these discounts to members of the Friends of the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden. In addition to these offers, our members always receive 10% off Davis Ace’s supply of Arboretum All-Stars.

UPDATE: Good Life Garden

Students are growing edible plants in the Good Life Garden, which will be donated to the UC Davis Food Pantry for students in need.

Learning irrigation from the top down

Taylor Lewis, nursery manager, had a vision for how to create a unique tree irrigation system that would suit the conditions at the Arboretum Teaching Nursery, then worked with his student staff and interns to create it.

Hummingbirds in your Garden

Despite being the tiniest birds in the world, hummingbirds pack a lot of attitude. Feisty and noisy, these sparkling garden denizens are beautiful and entertaining. Our local year-round resident is the Anna’s hummingbird, a medium-sized hummingbird with an iridescent rosy-pink color on the neck and head (in males) that flashes brightly when exposed to sunlight at the right angle.

New volunteers begin training classes

This year we recruited new volunteers for our regular gardening and land stewardship volunteer teams. They are currently in the process of gaining in-depth training on the care and maintenance of Arboretum and Public Garden landscapes.

Leading by Learning: Inspiring students one plant at a time

UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery Manager Taylor Lewis leads a motivated group of nursery propagation interns who are excited to apply the concepts they learn in class to the soil around them. Each student is responsible for an area in the nursery; they are given the opportunity to experiment with different care and maintenance techniques, and then, evaluate what works and what doesn’t. According to his students, the internship provides them with valuable experience that they don’t get in a classroom.

Season's greetings and a brief look back at 2015

KEY ORDER: Top to bottom (first column); top to bottom (second column); top to bottom (third column).

(1) A wide variety of campus and community supporters came together to officially dedicate the new Arboretum GATEway Garden at our east end;

(2) we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of our Arboretum All-Star plants and programs at our plant sales;

(3) Arboretum and Public Garden staff, volunteers, students and Animal Science academic partners commemorated the official opening of the Animal Science GATEway Garden;