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California Chapter
Upcoming APLD Events
For more information about each event, please click on the
dates below:
January
8, 2008
Selling
Sustainability
to
the Client
East
Bay District
January
12, 2008
Gardening
by Design
Southern
California Region
January
16, 2008
Sustainable
Landscape
Design
Forum
North
Bay District
January
19, 2008
Upland
Nursery Tour &
Organizational
Meeting
Southern
California Region
January
23, 2008
Estimating
Landscape
Construction
Costs
Peninsula
District
February
12, 2008
Irrigation
Systems
in
Water Conservation
East
Bay District
For Non-APLD events, please see details on the website.
There you will see Non-APLD events as well as APLD
events that have been added, or changed, after the submission date (25th of
each month).
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Landscapes Unlimited, Inc.
Wholesale Nursery
4330 Bodega Ave.
Petaluma, CA 94925
707-778-016
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APLD California
Chapter Member FAQ
Are you a
new member with lots of questions about how the APLD California Chapter
works? Did you just
renew and have a question about how your dues are used? Interested in
starting a new district in your area, like the North Bay members
recently did?
Check out our California Chapter Member FAQ. Click here to download. Do you have more questions that aren't yet answered?
APLD California Chapter Membership
Thank you to everyone who renewed their APLD California Chapter membership!
Your
$40 California Chapter membership fee provides the sole dues support
for all chapter and district programs in California.
The many rewards of APLD California Chapter membership include:
-Attendance at California District programs and meetings throughout the state
-Monthly California Chapter Newsletter
-APLD California Chapter Website
-Listing in the California Chapter referral pages
-Local APLD Certification Workshops
-Local APLD District Garden Tours (where available)
-Local APLD District Mentor/Mentee Program (where available)
-Local APLD District Design Salons (where available)
-Opportunities to network with other designers and green industry professionals
-Participation in our lively APLDCA Members-only internet discussion group
Questions?
Please contact the California Chapter Membership Committee: membership@apldca.org
Join the dynamic and informative discussion happening every day on the California
Chapter Yahoo! Group!
Thank you to our Silver Sponsors
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APLD California
Chapter
January 2008
Newsletter
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Message from the Outgoing
Chapter President
By Janet Bell
It has been my pleasure to serve as your president of the
California Chapter during 2007. This has
been such a growth-producing opportunity for me to lead, learn from and share
with other members - I highly recommend it.
This year, we have hosted a successful National Conference
(hopefully many of you attended) in Pasadena,
debuted a dynamic new website, worked with the National Board to facilitate
policy that will support our members, continued our successful Sponsorship
program and worked to increase membership in southern California
and supported our districts. It has
been a busy year and one of great growth.
This is due to the untiring efforts of the Chapter Board,
who have given their all so that you/we can receive greater benefits from this
organization. Please thank them when you
see them - Colleen Hamilton, Shelley Somersett, Susan Morrison, Li Vellinga,
Maureen DeCombe, Sharon Gibson, Ketti Kupper, Kelly Greenwood and Shiloh
Nielsen. Each district also sent
representatives to our Board, whose participation contributed to our successes
- Sharon Petersen, Marcia Bloom, Joni Wilson, Alma Hecht and Gail Fanning.
We expect the growth to continue and our enthusiasm to climb
under the leadership of Colleen Hamilton in 2008.
Wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2008.
Janet Bell
Message from the Incoming
Chapter President
By Colleen Hamilton
Dear Fellow APLD Members:
I am very proud to be the president of such an inspiring
group of designers and green industry professionals. I am looking forward to this year as your
leader with great enthusiasm and apprehension.
I hope that I can help move our Chapter forward to promote and build the
design profession. I plan to meet more
of our members and learn how APLD can help you.
I want to thank Janet Bell for her outstanding presidency in
2007. She is a great example for me and has
big shoes to fill. Our entire 2007 board
deserves kudos for an outstanding year!
Your new board of officers for 2008 is a team of dedicated
designers who exemplify giving of themselves for the betterment of APLD and the
design profession. I am honored to work
with them to help build our Chapter. It
is with the support and participation of all our membership that APLD can
develop greater awareness about what we have to offer. My vision for APLD for 2008 is:
Continuing expansion of our membership
Development of our educational opportunities
Building greater relationships with our sponsors and
industry professionals
Working to promote APLD through public relations and
marketing
Please feel free to contact me with questions anytime
throughout the year. I look forward to a
great 2008!
Your 2008 Chapter President,
Colleen Hamilton
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Members' Section
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Peninsula
District - Year End Celebration
By Kathy Ormiston and
Karen Hunt
Peninsula District members celebrated the year with friends
and colleagues at their Holiday Party on Wednesday, December 12th in the newly
renovated and lavishly decorated offices of Samscaping, Inc. in Mountain
View. The event was well attended by APLD Sponsors,
contractors, and both new and experienced designers, along with children and
spouses.
Attending Sponsors included Jeff Calhoun (FX Luminaire),
Erin Gil and Robert Vasquez (Grass Farm and Garden Accents), Terry Lyngso and
Vic Thomas (Lyngso) and Michael "Whitey" Whitener (New Earth Nursery) - several
of whom traveled many miles to enjoy the evening with our members.
Recognition was given to two of our founding members, Mary
Kaye and Li Vellinga, who started the first California APLD group after
returning from the national APLD Conference in Albuquerque,
New Mexico in 1996. It is hard to believe
that what started out with a handful of members in Karin Nelson's living room
has grown to become the California Chapter with over 350 garden designer
members today.
Membership recognition pins were presented to members who
have belonged to APLD for 5+ and 10+ consecutive years:
Five Year Pin Recipients
Janet Bell, Jessy Berg, Marcia Bloom, Peggy Lin Hung, Chris
Mortensen, Maryanne Quincy, Chris Todd, Barbara Bernie, Lauren Burton, Maureen
Decombe, Susan Diamond, Kelly Dixon, Peigi Duvall, Patricia Evans, Jeanine
Gerstenfeld, Donna Guldimann, Cathleen Hudson, Kathy Kane, Laurie Keit, Lisa
Mitchel, Joleen Morales, Frank Niccoli, Kim Raftery, Suzanne Redell, Laura
Schaub, and Nancy Shanahan.
Ten Year Pin Recipients
Fran Adams, Laurie Callaway, Kathleen Craig, Barbara Jackel,
Mary Kaye, Connie Lefkowits, Debby Ruskin, Kathleen Shaeffer, Beth Beach, Peggy
Calhoun, Helene Daniels, Peggy Hinman, Jolee Horn, Jan Nelson, Lesley Peters,
and Li Vellinga.
The 2007 Board Members - Marcia Bloom, Laura Schaub,
Patricia Evans, Glenn Hansen, Gail Klein, Jeanine Gerstenfeld, and Karen Hunt -
were applauded for all their hard work, and the 2008 Board Members - Laura
Schaub, Astrid Gaiser, Patti Berryhill, Allison Olson, Tina Roushall, Glenn
Hansen, Marcia Bloom, and Kathy Ormiston - were introduced and welcomed to
their new positions. We are looking
forward to a great 2008!
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Opportunities / Education
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Sustainable Landscape Design Forum
By Cynthia Sumner
Join the APLD North Bay District for a lively evening and thoughtful discussion.
We'll discuss the greater context in which we are operating
and practical, on the ground solutions for making the shift to sustainability. Learn more about our guest panel members by
clicking on their names below:
Kate Frey -Designer and winner at London's
Chelsea Garden Show for her sustainable garden design
Rick Taylor -Elder Creek Landscaping, contractor and
designer
Patrick Picard -Equinox Landscaping, contractor
Susan Lamont -Lamontscapes, Designer and APLD member
Erik Ohlsen -Ecological Designer, Educator and Organizer,
Permaculture Earth Artisans, P.E.A.
We encourage our members to bring a guest and for
non-members to come see what APLD is all about at this special event and
membership drive.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Wednesday, January 16th
5:30pm--Meet & Greet
7pm to 9pm--Forum
FrogSong Co-housing Community
at the Common House
8290 Old Redwood Highway
Cotati, CA (click for directions)
Please RSVP January 4th to Cynthia Sumner at cynsum2@yahoo.com
Place Your Garden on the Marin Eco-Friendly
Garden Tour!
Submitted by Jan Gross
Applications to have YOUR garden on the Eco-Friendly Garden
Tour are being accepted now through March 2008. There is no fee to apply.
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Saturday, May 17: The first day of the Tour will
highlight gardens with a wide range of eco-friendly features that are designed
by the professional landscape community.
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Sunday, May 18: The second day will highlight
native plant and habitat gardens designed and planted by homeowners and/or Master
Gardeners.
For more information and/or to apply go to www.mcstoppp.org/EFgardentour2008.html
Or, contact Gina Purin, Marin County Stormwater Pollution
Prevention Program at # 415-499-3202.
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Landscape and Nursery
Expo in Sacramento
Submitted by John
Inglett
On January 16th,
2008. The Landscape Expo
presents five seminar tracks devoted to landscape designers, landscape and
nursery professionals, arborists, turf, and golf course superintendents. This
show is a forum for green industry professionals to provide continuing
education for their groups. Attendees may pick and choose which of the seminar
offerings will best suit their needs and at the same time sign up for
continuing education credits from the CANGC, the CLT program, CAPCA ,
arborists, and many other professional groups. You can participate as a speaker
or panelist in an educational forum. You may also register yourself for the
seminars and receive continuing educational units. Seminar hours are staggered
so attendees have long blocks of time to attend the expo.
The Landscape & Nursery Expo is dedicated to the
education and advancement of the green industry. The expo provides a forum for
the latest in educational content, products and services available in the green
industry. The Landscape & Nursery Expo is supported by local chapters of
the California Association of Nurseries and Garden
Centers and the California
Landscape Contractor Association and APLD Sacramento contributing to the
Landscape Design track. APLD will have a booth on the trade floor to
answer questions. Visit the expo website at www.sacvalexpo.com for the latest
information and Seminar registration.
SFBA Chapter
Education Committee Delivers Sustainability Sensation
By Jonathan Silverman
The seminar, "Soils & More: Theory into Practice" held
at Foothill College
on October 27, was a great opening to the three-part Sustainability Series in Los
Altos. This five hour seminar was held in the new state-of-the-art
Environmental Horticulture
Building, which features several
green roofs built by Jensen Corporation. All participants received the helpful
Bay Friendly book Sustainable Practices for the Landscape Professional.
The event and location captured my interest because my
passion is to create more ecologically friendly and sustainable gardens that
are in harmony with nature. We started the series with "Soils & More"
because it all really begins with the soil. As landscape professionals we already
are concerned with grading, drainage, erosion, soil type and appropriate plant
selection, however, this seminar opened my eyes to the invisible world beneath
the surface. I have been using organic approaches like using earthworms and
fish emulsion for years, but now I understand why that works.
This event began with a breakfast buffet where we could
enjoy networking with each other with an assortment of delicious organic fruits
and pastries. To reinforce the ecological theme of the day, we had been invited
to bring our own personal cup for beverages. This was effective because at the
end of the day, the barrel filled with compostable materials from our lunch was
taken to the Foothill Sustainable
Garden to be added to the compost,
and the amount of actual garbage for the landfill barely covered the bottom of
a one gallon bucket.
The opening presentation was an impressive talk by Ryan
Marlinghaus, EarthCare Landscaping, who set the stage for the whole series. He
touched on good environmental practices such as increasing the amount of
permeable landscaping surface, reusing hardscape like "Urbanite",
conservation of water, energy and natural habitats, waste reduction, and
protection of air quality. Ryan has done a large amount of personal research
into the concept of embodied energy and was able to make that complex subject
understandable.
The featured speaker was Alane Weber, a certified Soil Food
Web Advisor, whose enthusiastic love of the subject made soil come alive for
us! There are somewhere between a million and a billion organisms per teaspoon
of soil. Unfortunately, many of our current landscaping practices destroy these
potential allies. A healthy soil food
web contains life: bacteria, fungi,
protozoa, nematodes, and micro and macro arthropods. In a healthy intact soil
food web you will see life walking on the soil and in the soil when you dig.
Chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides can damage or kill
these beneficial life forms. It is the
life in the soil that creates soil structure which allows air to diffuse into
the soil, water to run into and to be held in the soil, and nutrients to be
held in the soil and made available to the plants as they require them. There
is a symbiotic relationship in the soil between the organisms in the soil and
the plant roots. It is a universe that science is just beginning to discover
and understand. After a detailed
explanation of the complex community in the soil food web, Alane presented
several effective ways to work with soil and plants.
- TURF: If you have compacted turf that grows poorly, fill
aeration holes with mycorrhyzae and the best "alive" compost you can
obtain. Apply three applications of AACT (actively aerated compost tea) in one
month.
- COMPACTED CLAY SOIL: Rototill only once, amending with
5-25% mature compost, and oyster shell calcium (NOT gypsum) if needed. Apply
the appropriate beneficial mycorrhizal fungi onto the root balls or in the
holes of new plants. The organisms and the plant roots require oxygen in the
soil, if you have compacted soil that is your first order of business. Do not
rototill around plant roots, use a covering of mulch and soil drench with AACT,
keep foot traffic off the soil and in time the organisms will open up the soil. Blowers should be kept away from the soil,
they create compaction by blowing away all the life filled organic matter that
lives in the top layer of the soil.
- ANNUAL BEDS: Cut off old annuals from the surface, leaving
their roots to enrich the soil. Plant new plants one space over in the grid.
Instead of using chemical fertilizers that kill the soil microbes, add grass
clippings and alfalfa meal to the soil.
Use cocoa bean hulls if a mulch is desired. Annuals are bacterial, you can turn a bed
from fungal to bacterial by tilling the soil.
- PERENNIALS: Benefit from a slightly more fungal soil than
annuals, so the less you disturb the soil the better. They benefit from a layer
of mulch on the top 2" of the soil. The mulch will be broken down over
time by the fungi and bacteria in the soil. This is where you see the white
fungal threads running through the soil and into the mulch when you push the
mulch aside.
- DISEASED TREES: AACT (Actively Aerated Compost Tea) sprayed
on all leaf surfaces of Plane Trees with Anthracnose protected the leaves.
(Alane showed impressive comparative pictures of this.) AACT has helped prevent some fungal diseases
on the leaf surface of deciduous trees when used as a foliar spray in fall, bud
swell, bud break and when leafed out.
On Alcatraz, where I am a garden
volunteer, I am currently conducting research in developing a more organic
approach in the historic gardens. Currently, we add coffee grounds, grass
clippings, and horse manure into our compost bins every week. It will be
interesting to examine and see the affects on plant growth if we go towards
compost teas in a liquid application and add mycorrhyzae during our
plantings.
During lunch, there were break-out sessions where attendees
could participate in a group discussion. Topics ranged from plants that work,
to creating customer demand for sustainable landscaping, to innovative
irrigation technologies, and more. A panel discussion with practicing
professionals closed the event. Panelists were Frank Niccoli of The Village
Gardener; Alane Weber of Botanical Arts, Ryan Marlinghaus of EarthCare
Landscaping; and Sherri Osaka of Sustainable Landscape Designs. The seminar
concluded with a raffle of compost tea donated by Lyngso Garden Materials, and
a tour of the green roof with Jake Cacciato from Jensen Corporation Landscaping
Services. Green roofs not only capture and use rain water that would ordinarily
run into sewers, but beautify and add years to the life of the roof.
CLCA is committed to offering access to the most up-to date
best practices for sustainable landscaping. We want to proactively change
landscaping practices to positively affect the world, as well as to be ready
for any legislative decisions that might take us unaware (i.e. water
rationing).
I'm excited for the
next Sustainability Series workshop that will occur in 2008. It will be
entitled "Water & More: Theory into Practice". Watch this publication for details!
CLCA Education Committee: Ryan Marlinghaus, Elaina Kyrouz,
Deva Luna, Terry Lyngso, Jeff Sheehan, Heidi Johnson, Frank Niccoli, Patricia
Evans, Nancy Lewis.
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Marin County Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program
Submitted by Jan Gross
Marin County Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program invites
you to attend Construction Site Compliance for Contractors and Builders: Good
Management at Construction Projects
Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Time: 8:00
am - 3:00 pm
Location: 618 B Street
(Community Center Auditorium) in San Rafael
Workshop attendees will acquire an understanding of:
How to comply with the general permit requirements
Simple and effective BMPs (Best Management Practices) for
projects
Selecting, installing and maintaining effective erosion
control
The need for monitoring and documentation
Post construction/stormwater management techniques
 Registration includes:
Continental Breakfast and Lunch
Erosion and Sediment Control Field Manual
Guidebook for Preparing SWPPP (Stormwater Pollution
Prevention Plan)
Vendor Exposition
Field Trip (rain or shine - dress accordingly)
Certificate of Completion
Free Parking
Cost: $150.00
This workshop is co-sponsored with the San Francisco Estuary
Project, Friends of the San Francisco Estuary, and the San Francisco Bay
Regional Water Quality Control Board. To
view the brochure/agenda or to register online visit: http://sfep.abag.ca.gov/programs/construction/index.html
Countdown for a Healthier
Bay in 2008
Submitted by Jan Gross
Make New Year's resolutions you can actually accomplish and
feel good about in 2008!
Five things you can do for the Bay and feel great
Instead of focusing on depriving yourself of your favorite
guilty indulgences or setting lofty fitness or weight loss goals, turn your
attention to a different body: the body of water that literally defines the
region--the Bay.
While 2007 will undoubtedly go down in local history as the
year in which a cargo ship spilled 58,000 gallons of oil into San
Francisco Bay,
it's important to remember that individuals still have a key role to play in
helping the environment. "When faced with a tragedy like the oil spill or
looming concerns about climate change, it is tempting to feel that we can't
have a positive impact on the environment, but we can," says Phil Bobel of the
Bay Area Clean Water Agencies. "This is a great time to make small positive
changes to help the Bay and ourselves."
The Bay Area Clean Water Agencies and the Bay Area
Stormwater Management Agencies Association have put together a list of helpful
actions for the Bay in 2008. "If we can
get Bay Area residents to do any of these regularly in the new year, it will
make a difference," says Bobel.
Top 5 Things You Can Do For the Bay in 2008
1. Pick up at least one piece of litter every day--there's
plenty out there. Litter left on streets can flow to storm drains and straight
into the Bay.
2. Get back to basics! Instead of buying water in plastic
bottles, try running your own tap and filling a reusable bottle, such as
stainless steel or glass. Use regular--not antibacterial--soap for hand-washing.
Avoid soap products with the active ingredient triclosan, a registered
pesticide that accumulates in the bodies of humans and ultimately fish and can
be toxic to aquatic organisms.
3. Go all the way with compact fluorescent lightbulbs
(CFLs). Reduce your energy consumption by using only compact fluorescent
lightbulbs (CFLs) or Light-Emitting Diodes (LED). Remember that CFLs
contain some mercury. When these CFLs finally do give out, dispose
of them properly so that mercury doesn't find its way to the
Bay. Find a disposal location near you by going to www.baywise.info.
4. Get rid of your fat the right way--cooking fat, that
is. Don't pour cooking byproducts like
fats, oils and grease down indoor drains where they can clog pipes. Throw small
quantities in the trash and take larger quantities (such as turkey fryer oil)
to a collection facility; go to www.baywise.info for locations near you.
5. Oil and water don't mix. Our Bay has been through a lot
this year--please
do your part by keeping your car maintained. Each year in
the U.S. an
estimated 180 million gallons of used oil are disposed of improperly - dripped,
spilled, or poured onto the ground, directly into waterways, or down storm
drains. Oil from leaky vehicles can have a real impact on the Bay and local
creeks: one quart of motor oil can pollute up to 250,000 gallons of surface
water. If you change your own oil, recycle the used oil when you're done. For helpful information to help you keep this
resolution, go to www.baywise.info.
For more information, contact Chase Robert at 415-543-5280
or Phil Bobel at 650-329-2285
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Awards & Recognition
Have you won an award, been published in a magazine or know of someone who is worthy of notice??? Please share with the membership by submitting
content to the newsletter.
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Southern
California APLD member featured
An interview with California landscape
designer and garden television host, Shirley Bovshow will be presented on Capessa.com
on January 7, 2008. The
online video can be accessed at anytime after the initial debut.
Shirley's blog, "EdenMakers Blog" will also be a regular
feature at Capessa.com.
Look for Shirley in the upcoming television appearances
in March 2008. CBS Rachael Ray show, Shirley will appear as Rachael's garden
contributor and on the HGTV special, "25 Biggest Landscape Blunders".
On April 4-7 Shirley will be one of the featured speakers at Epcot's
International Flower and Garden Festival, speaking on "Art in the
Garden." For details and television, radio, and other media appearances,
visit Shirley's web site at www.ShirleyBovshow.com
and her blog at www.EdenMakersBlog.com
APLD member becomes
CLCA President
North Bay District member, Jan Gross, will be president of
the North Coast Chapter of the CLCA in 2008.
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APLD California Chapter Events
Calendar
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For a full listing of all events, please go to the event calendar
on our
website.
There you will see Non-APLD events as well as APLD events that have been added, or changed, after the submission date (25th of each month).
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Date:
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Tuesday January 8, 2008
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Event Title:
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Selling Sustainability to the Client &
Invasive Plants Update
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Sponsored by:
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East Bay District
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Time:
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4:00 PM
- 6:00 PM
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Description:
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Please join us to kick off 2008 with a great
presentation by Alma Hecht, APLD, on the important topic of environmental
sustainability in the landscape. Alma will discuss how to integrate this
approach into your design practice and make it a selling point for your
business. Alma has been a leader in this area for some time, and we are
fortunate to have her come and share her expertise.
Alma is the owner of Second Nature Design and the
recipient of the American Horticultural Society's Environmental Award and the
Garden Creator's Gold Medal at the 2006 San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.
She is also a certified arborist who runs the San Francisco Friends of the
Urban Forest Tree Care Program. Her practice emphasizes restoring native
plant communities, employing best management practices, and reusing materials
whenever appropriate to seamlessly blend together newly designed areas with established
architecture, aesthetics, and the natural environment.
But wait, there's more. East Bay District member
Maureen Decombe will also be on hand to update us on the latest information
regarding the PlantRight Program, an effort to prevent the introduction of
invasive horticultural species into landscapes.
Most invasive horticultural species have beautiful
and appropriate alternatives. Maureen will brief us on how APLD is partnering
with CANGC, CLCA, the California Invasive Plant Council, major growers,
retail nurseries, landscape architects, and master gardeners to educate the
public and the horticultural community at large on how to PlantRight for
California! APLD members can make a big difference by working with our
clients, plant suppliers, and installing contractors to make beautiful,
non-invasive plant choices.
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Cost:
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Members: $5.00. Visitors: $15.00. Students with
id: $10.00. ($5.00 is for room rental).
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Location:
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Veterans Memorial Building, 3780 Mt. Diablo
Boulevard, Lafayette.
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Contact:
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Sharon Gibson, sbgi@att.net
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Date:
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Saturday January 12, 2008
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Event Title:
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Gardening by Design: Ten Steps to a
Beautiful Garden
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Sponsored by:
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Southern California Region
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Time:
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9:30 AM
- 12:30 PM
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Description:
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Gardening by Design: Ten Steps to a Beautiful
Garden. Including a tour of nearby private English and Mediterranean style
gardens.
Hosted by APLD member Nan Simonsen. Nan is a
Master Gardener of 10 years, and Horticultural Educator through Riverside
Community College Community Education and UC Riverside Botanical Garden. View
her website at www.nanscapes.biz.
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Cost:
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No cost. Lunch will be provided.
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Location:
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3920 Ramona Drive, Riverside, CA 92506
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Contact:
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Please RSVP by January 5, 2008 to Nan Simonsen, Hm2grdn@aol.com
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More Info:
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www.nanscapes.biz
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Date:
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Wednesday January 16, 2008
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Event Title:
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Sustainable Landscape Design Forum
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Sponsored by:
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North Bay District
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Time:
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5:30 PM
- 9:00 PM
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Description:
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Join us for a lively evening and thoughtful discussion
with our guest panel:
**Kate
Frey-Designer
and winner at London's Chelsea Garden Show for her sustainable garden design
**Rick
Taylor-Elder
Creek Landscaping, contactor & designer
**Patrick
Picard-Equinox
Landscaping, contractor
**Susan
Lamont-Lamontscapes,
Designer and APLD member
**Erik
Ohlsen-Ecological
Designer, Educator and Organizer, Permaculture Earth Artisans, P.E.A.
We'll discuss the greater context in which we are
operating and practical, on the ground solutions for making the shift to
sustainability. We'll be exploring how we can:
--make our designs more earth-friendly,
--go beyond what we already think we know,
--specify "greener".
We welcome our existing members to bring a guest
and for non-members to come see what APLD is all about at this special event
and membership drive. Food and beverages provided. 5:30pm--Eat, Meet &
Greet; 7:00 pm--Forum.
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Cost:
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Free.
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Location:
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FrogSong Co-Housing--Common House, 8290 Old Redwood
Hwy., Cotati. Follow link for directions: http://www.cotaticohousing.org/directions.shtml
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Contact:
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Limited Seating! RSVP to Cynthia Sumner by January
4th (but be sure to mark your calendars now!), cynsum2@yahoo.com
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More Info:
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http://www.cotaticohousing.org/directions.shtml
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Date:
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Saturday January 19, 2008
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Event Title:
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Upland Nursery Tour and Organizational
Meeting
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Sponsored by:
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Southern California Region
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Time:
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10:00 AM
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Description:
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Mark Your Calendars! You aren't going to want to
miss this!!!
Make plans to attend the January meeting of the
potential new Orange County Area APLD District.
We're going to be treated to a very special event:
an exclusive private tour of Upland Nursery's massive inventory of exotic
tropical plants. This is the most thrilling, extensive inventory of tropical
and exotic plants in southern California! Their 20+ acre private garden and
growing grounds are continually locked behind massive iron gates and are
available for view by appt only. They have over 6 million dollars in
inventory in plumerias alone! Exotic wax apple trees and much more! If you
want high-end clientele and want to "Wow!" them with creative designs of
plants that are acclimated and will actually grow here, plan to attend. I
guarantee you will not want to miss this opportunity - meeting or not! The
owners, Malee and her husband Jerry, will be our gracious hosts. I was
privileged to go on a guided tour by Malee several weeks ago and was
thrilled. If you design for high-end clientele in Orange County or if you
want to, you need this resource in your design arsenal.
After the tour we will go to Marie Callender's
(just 6 minutes away) where we have the garden room reserved. We will have
lunch and then have our organizational meeting, which will last approximately
one hour. Hope to see you there!
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Cost:
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Cost including lunch will be $20.00.
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Location:
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Meet at Upland Nursery, 1518 N. Tustin St.,
Orange, CA
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Contact:
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Please RSVP to Connie Coury ASAP so we can have a
count for lunch: (714) 501-7279 - cell, (714) 539-7665 - work, connie@pacificparadisepools.com
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Date:
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Wednesday January 23, 2008
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Event Title:
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Estimating Landscape Construction Costs for
Designers
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Time:
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3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Sponsored by:
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Peninsula District
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Description:
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The list of 2008 events for the Peninsula District
was determined by a survey sent out to all members in November. "Estimating
for Designers" made first place on members' wish list. So by popular demand,
the Peninsula District will address this topic right off the bat as the first
2008 event.
A panel of contractors headed by Janet Bell will
explain to District members on how to estimate the cost of landscape
construction, educate clients about general costs for construction details,
and know what types of plan details are crucial for contractors to accurately
bid a project. The panel will also discuss how to stay in your client's good
graces through collaborating with contractors on construction details and
budget issues.
Don't miss out on this important educational
opportunity.
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Cost:
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Free to members; a nominal fee is charged to
visitors.
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Location:
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Gamble Garden, Palo Alto
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Contact:
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Kathy Ormiston, kathyormiston@pacbell.net
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Date:
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Tuesday February 12, 2008
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Event Title:
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The Role of Irrigation Systems in Water
Conservation
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Sponsored by:
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East Bay District
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Time:
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4:00 PM
- 6:00 PM
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Description:
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Our February program will feature irrigation
specialist Lori Palmquist on the role of irrigation systems in water
conservation. Lori is a landscape contractor who specializes in irrigation
design, installation, troubleshooting, and repair. She is a certified
irrigation contractor, auditor, and water manager. Her specialty and passion
is water conservation, and landscape water management. She will help us
understand the science and technology of irrigation as it relates to the art
of garden design. This skill can bring the designer the confidence needed to
handle the follow-up issues of sustaining the health of the garden.
Lori will introduce the latest technology in
affordable residential garden water management. She will also demonstrate how
to determine and specify the appropriate uses of drip and spray in garden
designs, and how to make a rough estimation of the cost of irrigation for
design clients. Ample time will be dedicated to answering your questions, so
bring them with you.
Well-designed irrigation is an essential and
critical landscape component, not only in the responsible use of water, but
in the health of a garden over time. A poorly designed system, once it has
been installed, is expensive to operate and even more expensive to replace.
The client usually ends up spending at least twice as much as they would
have, had they had a good system installed to begin with. A well-thought-out
and beautifully designed garden deserves a well-designed, efficient
irrigation system.
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Cost:
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Members: $5.00. Visitors: $15.00, Students with
id: $10.00. ($5.00 is for room rental).
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Location:
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Veterans Memorial Building, 3780 Mt. Diablo
Boulevard, Lafayette.
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Contact:
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Sharon Gibson, sbgi@att.net
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