Balancing Landscapes with Wildlife

Balancing Landscapes with Wildlife

Our friends at Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley have a rehabilitation and education facility here in San Jose. They have put together a set of guidelines "Gardening for Wildlife" and "Co-existing With Our Wild Neighbors" . These informative guides are not only good resource material for the professional , but can also be downloaded for their clients. Attracting animals that benefit the garden, as well as working with the ones that don't, is an essential balance to establish. For harmony makes the most sustainable gardens.

Young Gardners

One of the volunteers forwarded the following article and we thought it would be something that evryone should read. These projects are happening in more and more urban settings and are giving children and adults an opportunity to get a hands on education. There is no better clasroom than the applied or hands on approach. Read on...

http://www.losaltosonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18533&Itemid=141

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Newsletters

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Greywater Workshop

The CLCA SFBA Education Committee is presenting a workshop on Greywater Friday, May 15, 9:00AM. The presenters are Sherri Osaka from Sustainable Landscape Designs and John Russell from Water Sprout. During the workshop, you will learn what grey water is and how you can use it to provide solutions for your customer's landscaping needs.

There will be information about permits required for grey water systems and efforts to simplify that permitting. You will see several examples of the different possible types of grey water systems and you will learn how to calculate the amount of available grey water and how to match that to the landscapes needs. You will receive the resources you need to design and implement your first system.

The workshop will be held in the new Environmental Horticulture lab room at Foothill College. Please bring $2 in quarters for parking, and bring you own cup for drinks. Snacks will be provided.To register: This workshop is limited to 40 participants, so register early. The CLCA/APLD/student registration rate is $30, for all others $40. Respond to this evite, plus do the following: Send your check made out to CLCA-SFBA, to Heidi Johnson, c/o HK Johnson & Assoc., 1153 Scotland Drive, Cupertino, CA 95014. Please include your business name, attendee names, and contant information.

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Here in this format we will be posting information about a variety of interests aimed toward our customers in the landscape industry. Whether it is an industry event, an interesting plant or a new product we hope our readers will find this timely information useful. We will be posting on a regular (probably weekly) basis so stay tuned...


The Garden Show
Coming this March 18-22 is the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show (http://www.gardenshow.com/sf/index/index.cfm) being held this year at the San Mateo Event Center. This years theme is "Sustainable Spaces. Beautiful Places", which is not only timely but forward thinking since sustainable landscaping is a direction that the whole industry should be embracing.
This year we are supporting a garden by Ask Tony the Gardener that incorporates elements of water gathering, solar and wind energy. Come support this show it should be en eye opener as usual.