Spring Waterwise and California Native Garden Care

Spring Waterwise and California Native Garden Care

Learn the most important spring activities to care for you waterwise or California native garden and keep it looking its best!

By Waterwise Community Center

Date and time

Saturday, May 18 · 9am - 12pm PDT

Location

Waterwise Community Center

4594 San Bernardino Street Montclair, CA 91763

About this event

  • 3 hours

Join us in the Waterwise Community Center’s beautiful public garden for a discussion and demonstration of the most important spring seasonal activities to care for your waterwise or California native garden. Keeping your garden healthy and looking great is not complicated, but relies on knowing what to do and when!

We will cover:

⁃ Spring season pruning and shaping of plants (for the ones that are tended to in spring)

⁃ Seasonal mulch and compost application: what to do and what to avoid

⁃ Common spring season weeds and tips and tricks for dealing with them

⁃ Watering / Irrigation for waterwise and native plants: how much and how often

⁃ Special tips for “establishment” care in the first year of a newly planted plant or garden.

⁃ Mid-spring planting: which waterwise plants are still happy to be planted in April and which might be better to wait to plant until fall.

⁃ Proper planting for waterwise and California native plants with a planting demonstration

⁃ Plenty of time to answer your spring garden care questions!

Due to the hot weather forecast, this workshop will start outdoors and will finish indoors should the temperature become less than comfortable. Please dress appropriately and bring water, a hat, sunblock, etc. as appropriate.

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Waterwise Community Center

The Waterwise Community Center is a program of the Chino Basin Water Conservation District, a special district with the purpose of conserving water locally. Local dairy farmers created CBWCD in 1949 to protect and replenish our local aquifer, the Chino Groundwater Basin. When it rains, CBWCD’s network of channels and percolation basins soak up the rain to refill the aquifer for use when it is dry.

The Waterwise Community Center provides classes, workshops, landscape design consultations, and other resources to help area residents use water wisely. Learn how you can take advantage of our free services here. The District serves the communities of Chino, Chino Hills, Ontario, Montclair, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, and Fontana.

A seven-member Board of Directors governs CBWCD and meets on the second Monday of the month at 2pm. Attend our meetings and learn more about the Board here.