This workshop presented information on how to create a living landscape and garden ecologically. As habitat for insects and animals becomes scarce, living landscapes become important places of refuge for wildlife, while at the same time adding biological diversity to cities.

Topics include:

• Plants that provide refugia* for Wildlife
• Not-so-common pollinators
• Cool tools to control garden pests
• How to create a green roof
• Attracting birds to your backyard

*an area where special environmental circumstances have enabled a species or a community of species to survive after extinction in surrounding areas.

Resources:

 

Creating a Living Landscape

Anne Schellman, CCUH

 

Landscaping with the Environment in Mind

Ellen Zagory, UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden

 

Pollinators We Never Talk About

Lynn Kimsey, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology

 

Cool Tools to Control Garden Pests

Karey Windbiel-Rojas, UC Statewide IPM Program

 

Urban Habitat: The Case for Green Roofs

Haven Kiers, UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden

 

Attracting Birds to Your Yard

Mary Schiedt, Yolo Audubon Society

 

Creating a Living Landscape: Tying it All Together

Ellen Zagory, UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden

Anne Schellman, CCUH

 

Handouts:

Plants for Hedgerows (and Gardens)

Larval Food Plants for Butterflies

 

Recommendations for Further Study

 

• Living Landscapes

  • Creating a Living Landscape by Rick Darke & Doug Tallamy
    • although based out of the east coast, best information for science behind the topic.

• Pollinators

  • California Bees and Blooms: A Guide for Gardens and Naturalists by Gordon Frankie and Robbin Thorpe
  • Insects and Gardens: In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology by Eric Grissell

• Birds

  • Yolo Audubon Society

• Pest Control

  • University of California Integrated Pest Management Web Site

• Green Roofs

  • Urban Habitats   |  Green Roofs   |    Living Roofs