UC Landscape Plant Irrigation Trials

UC Landscape Plant Irrigation Trials

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Photos and trial results featuring low water-use, disease-resistant, pest-tolerant plants

We perform 2-year irrigation trials on perennial landscape plants in order to evaluate their performance on reduced levels of irrigation. We plant in the fall and establish them for at least a full year on regular irrigation. The second spring we begin deficit irrigation at three levels based on percentages of what a turf grass uses, or what is called reference evapotranspiration (ETo). At the end

Save In Season Nursery: Donate for Security & Repairs, organized by Karrie Reid 10/29/2025

Please help if you can! This is for a local Stockton nursery, market, cafe and gathering place for gardening lessons. It has been repeatedly vandalized this year with plant theft or destruction, and even killed chickens. Just senseless. Please visit the link to learn more and help with any amount you can.

Save In Season Nursery: Donate for Security & Repairs, organized by Karrie Reid In Season Market and Nursery is a Stockton gem of a local business t… Karrie Reid needs your support for Save In Season Nursery: Donate for Security & Repairs

08/20/2025

It's OPEN HOUSE time again! If you are a UC Master Gardener or in any horticultural landscape/nursery/design/build/garden writing profession, you won't want to miss this: https://uclpit.ucdavis.edu/open-houses

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