Learn how to identify critical steps for successfully designing a watershed wise landscape including: sizing and siting the rainwater capture area, developing a palette of climate-appropriate plants, applying key design principles, and laying out a successful planting plan. This advanced workshop is geared for folks who have already taken the California Friendly and/or the Turf Removal workshops. Registration is required.
Learn how to design a yard using the four principles of gorgeous and watershed wise landscaping: building a healthy living soil sponge, holding rainwater on your property, selecting local native plants that minimize water use and maximize biodiversity, and controlling your irrigation. Registration required.
Registration and signed digital waiver required. To Register contact John Wadsworth vicechair@newportbeach.surfrider.org.
Learn how to design a yard using the four principles of gorgeous and watershed wise landscaping: building a healthy living soil sponge, holding rainwater on your property, selecting local native plants that minimize water use and maximize biodiversity, and controlling your irrigation. Registration required.
Learn how to remove your lawn and make the right moves for creating a gorgeous, watershed wise landscape including: removing turf without the use of chemicals, replacing it with climate-appropriate plantings, keeping it in place but maintaining it in an organic manner. Registration is required.
Registration and signed digital waiver required.
Learn how to identify critical steps for successfully designing a watershed wise landscape including: sizing and siting the rainwater capture area, developing a palette of climate-appropriate plants, applying key design principles, and laying out a successful planting plan. This advanced workshop is geared for folks who have already taken the California Friendly and/or the Turf Removal workshops. Registration is required.
Want to transform your yard into a thriving, colorful space, but not sure where to start? In this free, online workshop, we’ll help you think like a professional landscape designer and work with our climate, not against it, to achieve a vibrant, California friendly landscape. Attendees will have an opportunity to win a water efficiency kit. Registration required.
Learn how to remove your lawn and make the right moves for creating a gorgeous, watershed wise landscape including: removing turf without the use of chemicals, replacing it with climate-appropriate plantings, keeping it in place but maintaining it in an organic manner. Registration is required.
Learn how to design a yard using the principles watershed-wise landscaping, including understanding soil moisture balance, key components of a properly installed drip system, typical problems with drip and how to avoid them, and developing a successful maintenance practice. Registration is required.
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Learn the purpose, potential & programming of irrigation controllers, including understanding irrigation’s role in maintaining a soil moisture balance, outlining the purpose and potential of a weather-based controller, reviewing basic terminology and programming principles, identifying special functions, and troubleshooting typical problems. Registration is required.