We recently found out that a K-9 school in Connecticut — The Foote School — inspired by the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden's Nature's Gallery Court, created their own wall of regionally appropriate flowers from upcycled materials for Columbus House, a nearby homeless shelter. 

Visitor instructions, found on signs at popular entrances both at the Arboretum and Putah Creek Riparian Reserve, must be followed when visiting our campus's recreational spaces.
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The Arboretum and Public Garden remains open to visitors — as long as they practice social distancing.

When it comes to green infrastructure, the Learning by Leading™ SmartScape interns have got it covered. The SmartScape team is not only focused on establishing smart irrigation strategies, they are transforming once-overlooked sites into beautiful gardens. In doing so, the SmartScape team has created an area for students to gain a greater understanding of how to approach landscape ecology from both humanistic and biological perspectives. It's hands-on experience!

We hope you and your families are all in good health. We care deeply about the health of our community, and slowing the spread of COVID-19 is our highest priority. For that reason, and in light of the recent campus and statewide orders to shelter-in-place, we are canceling all public events, including our plant sales, until further notice.

Undergraduate researcher Kim Luke with the Center for Watershed Sciences is working with the Arboretum and Public Garden to conduct an experiment about how different fishes in the Arboretum Waterway may influence water quality. She is particularly interested in how one kind of fish, common carp, influence algal blooms.

By Taylor Lewis, nursery manager

Months of color, drought-tolerant, Valley-appropriate, fast-growing, easy-care — these traits are a few reasons that crape myrtles (Lagerstroemia indica), and their many cultivars, have become one of the most widely used home landscape, commercial, parking lot, median strip, landscape trees in the Sacramento Valley. So, what’s the mystery?

Tomatoes, chard, bell peppers and lettuce are just some of the bounty the Arboretum and Public Garden’s Learning by Leading™ Edible Landscaping team will be growing and harvesting.