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UC Davis Arboretum holds second of season's five plant sales

Members can order online, get contactless curbside pick-up

Several small plants in black pots
Satisfy that desire to buy plants with excellent specimens from the UC Davis Arboretum Nursery sale.
Members only for this sale, but it's easy to join. (Photo: Kathy Morrison)

Celebrate spring with some well-timed plant shopping.

On the first official weekend of spring, UC Davis Arboretum’s Teaching Nursery is hosting its second plant sale for members only. With orders online only, the sale window is open now through 1 p.m. Monday, March 22.

Order plants before that deadline, then schedule no-contact curbside pick-up March 25 through March 30 (excluding Sunday).

This sale is open to members of the Friends of the Arboretum and the Davis Botanical Society. Not yet a Friend? No problem; join and receive instant benefits including a 10% discount.

This sale features thousands of low-water (mostly) flowering plants in 436 varieties, ideal for our climate. Many varieties are hard to find anywhere else.

Take a look at the inventory (it’s impressive):
https://bit.ly/3r69tX0

Discover some new favorites, too. In this sale, 43 varieties are offered for the first time and 98 have not been offered before 2021.

Located on Garrod Drive on the UC Davis campus, the Arboretum Teaching Nursery also will host three spring sales for the general public; no membership necessary. Those sale windows are: April 8-12, April 29-May 3 and May 20-24.

For full details: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/online-plant-sales



Postscript to Thursday's blog item: The "Landscape Redesign: An Environmentally Friendly Approach" video by the UCCE Sacramento County is now posted on YouTube and available for viewing .

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