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Intermediate
Conventional Gardens: the Unconventional Watershed Wise Landscape
Sponsored by SoCalGas, this webinar focuses on how we can …
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Conventional Gardens: the Unconventional Watershed Wise Landscape
What you'll learn
Using key management practices to improve and maintain the health of a landscape
Caring for traditional ornamental plants such as roses, boxwood, camellias
Creating a more drought tolerant polyculture lawn
Managing limited irrigation as efficiently as possible
Protecting trees and shrubs in times of drought
Free
Intermediate
Protected: Firescaping: Reducing the Vulnerability (California American Water)
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Free
Protected: Firescaping: Reducing the Vulnerability (California American Water)
What you'll learn
History and background of fire in urban/wildland interface areas
Determine key points of a property’s vulnerability
Understand the importance of maintaining a good soil moisture balance
Review landscape maintenance practices for protection
Plan a fire-resistant residence/landscape interface
Design a fire-resistant landscape using the Watershed Approach
Understand the additional complexities of hillside fires
Select a plant palette that minimizes the spread of fire
Additional discussion about landscape mulches and fire
Free
Intermediate
Rainwater Harvesting – An Advanced Discussion
During California’s 2022-23 rainy season, it received 73 trillion gallons …
Free
Rainwater Harvesting – An Advanced Discussion
What you'll learn
Review of passive rainwater capture in soil
Considerations for grading properly in urban areas
Hillside rain capture
Working with cisterns
Free
Intermediate
Water Budgeting in Times of Drought_SoCalGas
When it comes to managing our water resources, conservation and …
Free
Water Budgeting in Times of Drought_SoCalGas
What you'll learn
Become thoroughly comfortable discussing Hydrozoning, Plant Water Requirements, and Landscape Water Requirements.
Re-imagine the landscape as we make Conservation a Way of Life.
Incorporate strategies such as very low water requirement planting palettes, changing from spray to drip irrigation, running sections of the landscape on rainwater alone, and creating permeable hardscape that doubles as water-catchment areas.
Free
Intermediate
Protected: Total Irrigation Run Time (SoCal Gas Landscape Series)
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Protected: Total Irrigation Run Time (SoCal Gas Landscape Series)
What you'll learn
Plant Water Requirements, Plant Available Water, and Precipitation Rates
Distribution Uniformity of irrigation systems
Establishing an irrigation schedule
Managing the irrigation controller to adjust to real conditions on the ground and in a drought
We imagine resilient cities that are water and soil secure, with Watershed Wise landscapes, designed, built and managed by confident property owners and certified professionals who understand the connection each yard has to healing the global environment.
