Container Plants for Winter Color — About planting in multiple layers and grouping a variety of containers of different types and sizes to create depth and density. 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, , next to the former Borders bookstore in the Davis Commons shopping center, First Street and Richards Boulevard.
Planting for Pollinators and Other Beneficial Insects — About how your home landscape can provide habitat for native pollinators. 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, .
Folk Music Jam Session — Pull out your fiddles, guitars, mandolins, penny whistles, pipes, flutes, squeezeboxes — you name it! — and join your fellow musicians during the lunch hour for a little bluegrass, old-time, blues, Celtic, klezmer and other world music. All skill levels welcome. Listeners, too! Noon Friday, Dec. 9, . (The arboretum announced that Folk Music Jam Sessions are taking November off, and that the Dec. 9 event is the last one on the schedule for 2011.)
Walk With Warren — With Warren Roberts, retired superintendent of the arboretum. Noon Wednesday, Dec. 14, .
Under the Redwood Canopy — With this program, the arboretum invites people to "enjoy the peace and silence of the redwood grove on a foggy winter day" (provided the weather cooperates, that is). 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, .
All programs are free and open to the public. More information: (530) 752-4880 or (for directions, click on “Plan Your Visit”).
Media Resources
Dave Jones, Dateline, 530-752-6556, dljones@ucdavis.edu