Spring Waterwise and California Native Garden Care

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!

Our instructor for this workshop will be George Jimenez, Horticulture Lead and Conservation Technician here at Chino Basin Water Conservation District and the Waterwise Community Center.

George has been active in diverse roles in the horticulture industry over the last 20 years, leading everything from high-end golf course landscape management to native landscape construction and specialized care of California native and waterwise gardens. He holds multiple industry certificates through Mt. San Antonio College and leads the hands-on garden volunteer program at CBWCD.

Each participant will be able to select a native wildflower seed packet of their choice to take home.

After the workshop concludes, for those who wish to stay, we will be offering a raffle give-away of some of our favorite waterwise California native plants. We will also tell you a bit about each one, why it is one of our favorites, and the garden situations in which it is likely thrive.

Host or Publisher Waterwise Community Center