[Lapg] rain garden workshop this weekend

[Joan Stevens]

I'll be gone but it's a good topic to know more about!
J

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Rain Barrels & Rain Gardens
Saturday, September 10
10am-Noon
Palm Room
$25 Arboretum members
$28 non-members
 
Stephen Williams, instructor
 
Learn why cities have programs to promote the construction of tens of thousands 
of rain gardens nationwide.  See how to design and install a rain garden and 
barrel system. Capture 

seasonal rain water for future use and/or gather it for infiltration through a 
depressed garden area to recharge the ground water.  
 
Discover  how  you  can  develop  a sustainable landscape which promotes native 
wildlife, utilizes less irrigation, and uses  fewer  fertilizers  and  
pesticides. The  emphasis  will  also  be on  soils, amendments, plant 
selection, irrigation, mulching and maintenance. 

 
 
For reservations: Please call (626) 821-4623, or email  jill.berry at arboretum.org 
.  You may also pay at the door.
 
 
 "There is one, and only one, solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We 
must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world,and train all our 
young people to help. They want to.
We need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, 
clean energies, secure communities,stable regions, and to know how to do it from 
hands-on experience"
"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even 
if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is 
enough for everyone.
Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the 
very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and 
shelter." 



- Bill Mollison 
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