World Food Day is this Friday, October 16th. We’re celebrating at the new garden where visitors can see and learn more about how the UC Davis Horticulture Innovation Lab is helping smallholder farmers overcome field and market challenges with low cost technologies.

Friends of the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden can now redeem their campus parking benefits at the Arboretum Headquarters.

Are brown lawns the new normal? Facing that question a year ago, Ria de Grassi, longtime Davis resident, removed her backyard lawn and hopes sharing her experience can help others who struggled, like her, with where to begin.

Learning by Leading Edible Landscaping interns are piloting a program to distribute produce grown in the Good Life Garden to people and programs that need it, such as the UC Davis Student Food Pantry.

Looking for standout performers of the Arboretum All-Stars? Based on her research, Karrie Reid, UC Cooperative Extension Environmental Horticulture Advisor, shares which All-Stars she would call “Superstars” based on their performance in low-water landscapes and adaptability to different climate zones.

THE ORIGINAL 100 ALL-STAR PLANTS are not the only ones that we have found to have excellent qualities for gardens in our area. This season, our Teaching Nursery staff nominated ten plants that they consider “Rising Stars.” These plants have many of the same characteristics as our Arboretum All-Stars—they are attractive, dependable, drought tolerant, low maintenance, and provide value to our wildlife.

THIS YEAR OUR UC DAVIS ARBORETUM ALL-STARS CELEBRATE THEIR 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY. It’s an anniversary worth noting not just because it’s been a decade, but because of the impact the plants and overall program have had on the improvement in sustainability of our landscapes.

As we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars at our upcoming FALL 2015 PLANT SALES, it is important to understand that the success of the plants and program would not have garnered the statewide impact we recognize today were it not for Dave Fujino, Director of the UC Davis California Center for Urban Horticulture (CCUH), who brokered connections to the nursery industry and support from wholesale partners to grow and sell Arboretum All-Stars to retail nurseries.

Over the past 10 years we have seen Arboretum All-Stars move from favorites in our Arboretum and other campus landscapes to widespread use in gardens statewide, but now their profile is literally being elevated even further … Arboretum All-Stars can now be found on roofs!

Because members of the Friends of the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden are eligible for 12 free campus parking passes a year as a benefit of their membership, we wanted to sure that you all were aware of a temporary parking lot closure.

The Learning by Leading students provided countless hours, creative energy, and passion for designing and leading new projects with the Arboretum and Public Garden.

Scouts installed posts along the perimeter of the Putah Creek Riparian Reserve to help protect the reserve's sensitive landscape.

If you’ve strolled through the Arboretum lately then you’ve probably noticed intermittent ghost-like gloves covering the tips of oak tree branches. No, those are not DIY tree decorations; they are wasp collection receptacles and all are a part of an independent study project being conducted by undergraduate entomology major Laurie Casebier in collaboration with UC Davis’ Bohart Museum of Entomology.

Our Grounds and Landscape Services team, part of the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden, hosted the Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS) School of Grounds Management Summer Conference on August 3-5, 2015.

The large median along Old Davis Road near the Mondavi Center for Performing Arts is in the process of being converted to a low-water, region-appropriate landscape.