Above: Photo of people looking at the vegetable garden exhibit. Growing your own food can be a part of any water-wise garden. Using techniques like raised beds and soaker hoses, you can grow most any vegetable.

Join us at the Water Smart Plant Fair where vendors from throughout southern California will be selling drought tolerant plants perfectly suited to your San Diego garden. A bounty of choices will include native plants, water smart perennials, succulents, trees, shrubs, herbs, and more. Visit our “Ask the Experts” areas to get information from landscape designers, Master Composters, and other plant and gardening specialists who will help you cultivate your green thumb! Entries and information for San Diego County’s Seventh-Annual California Friendly® Landscape Contest will be available. The Water Conservation Garden is the backdrop for this event where full-sized examples of plants you wish to purchase can be viewed in our landscape. Don’t miss this water smart plant extravaganza! Program details can be viewed at www.thegarden.org.

Related links

• Resources for Water-Wise Gardeners
• Water Conservation Garden Web Site