The Valley District Board of Directors has voted unanimously to enter into a Memorandum of Understand with California State University, San Bernardino, CSUSB Foundation, Water Resources Institute, and Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens to develop a Water Conservation Demonstration Garden to be located on the CSUSB Campus.

NewTrain’s Tanya Ingram, resident Joss Fiander, Housing NSW’s Aaron Colley and Kevin Trustum, from Lismore City Council, tend the gardens in Rous Road.

Whether you live where it rains or where it pours, there’s a great, easy way you can conserve water for garden use.

From flowing planting beds to an elaborate rock-lined pool and spa, the Woodway garden of Stacy Ducharme and Robert Gradwohl is an elegant Old World haven that won grand prize in the 16th-annual Pacific Northwest Gardens: A Competition for Home Gardeners. Sponsored by The Seattle Times and the Northwest Flower Garden Show, in cooperation with the Arboretum Foundation, the contest drew 160 ...

Let's go down the garden path for water. Not to find it, but to save it. Did you know that from 30 percent to 70 percent of the average Marin water bill is garden irrigation?