The Clovis Botanical Garden will be hosting a day all about plants to help you to get ready for spring – and of course we’ll be there 😉 Come and listen to my dad give the 411 on UC Verde at his 12:30pm spiel. There will be gardening presentations, a spring plant sale, raffle and master gardeners on hand to answer all of your questions! It’s on Saturday, March 26th from 9am-2pm at The Clovis Botanical Garden at 945 N. Clovis Avenue in Clovis!
Admission is $5 for this special event and it’s free to Garden members. Annnnnd award-winning smoked BBQ tri-tip lunches will be available for purchase too!!! yum yum yum
Here are some pics from our small demonstration plot installed at the Clovis Botanical Garden!
Mowed versus unmowed, which UC Verde look do you prefer?
UC Verde plug tray being installed over Netafim sub-irrigation:
Netafim sub-irrigation left partially exposed to show consumers how it works. Typically the irrigation is completely covered and waters the plants from underground; it’s great for a water-wise garden since you won’t waste/lose water to evaporation or run-off:
I really like the new Rainbird “Copper Shield” drip irrigation for subsurface drip irrigation. Traditional subsurface frip gets root intrusion, UNLESS you run a chemical herbicide through the system. Rainbird has figured out a way to keep roots out naturally, with copper. Inserting a tiny piece of copper in each outlet, the copper produces negatice ions which prevents root intrusion! This is the world’s first “sustainable” drip irrigation.
Thanks for sharing that with us Mike! Good to know!