APLD CA Makes Waves with Watershed Approach

Deva Luna’s Secrets to Success with the “Natural Front Yard”

Musings from Chapter Leaders on the Future of the Landscape Industry

MARCH 2017 1 Contents From the Chapter President ...... 3 Watershed Approach Permeates Trade Show and Inspires Business Model ...... 4 Landscape Design for the Rest of Us: An Interview with Deva Luna ...... 6 Meet the Leadership ...... 11 Our District Boards of Directors ...... 13 Thanks to Our Sponsors ...... 14 Spotlight: Laurus ‘Saratoga’ ...... 16 Save the Date: 2nd Annual APLD Greater Los Angeles District Garden Tour ...... 17 Tools and Tips: Contour Finder ...... 18 Designer Profile: Jeannie Fitch ...... 19 Plant Right: Alternatives to Invasive Pennisetum setaseum ...... 22 A Goodbye, Hello and Thank You from Maureen Decombe ...... 25 New Water Conservation Senate Bill Introduced ...... 26 Chapter Board Holds First 2017 Meeting ...... 27 Platinum Sponsor Rain Bird Presents New Products ...... 29 Members in the News ...... 30 Watershed-Approach Designer Plant Picks: 65 Superstars ...... 31 Welcome New Members ...... 35 Landscape Events and Classes Around California ...... 36 Meet the Newsletter Staff ...... 37 Contributors to the March Issue ...... 38 Cover: Garden design and photograph by Anne Weinberger APLD California Chapter Newsletter Call for entries APLD Postcard OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2016 Each year APLDCA creates a postcard to get SANTA FE Earthly Gifts From the word out to the public about the benefits Land, Sky, and Time of using an APLD designer . We are looking for an image for the 2017 postcard, to feature the The 2016 APLD conference enchanted and embraced watershed-approach to gardening . If you would APLD California Chapter members and friends like one of your gardens to be considered, please Impressions from this year’s email your photo to [email protected] by conference cohort

March 31, 2017 . Can you name these APLD leaders? Answers start on page 3. Did you miss the October edition of the APLDCA newsletter? Link to October Newsletter Cover Photos: Debbie Gliksman 1 Postcard for 2015 2 From the Chapter President Linda Middleton, APLD

On January 31 and February 1, I had the honor of presiding over the California Chapter board meeting for the first time . As I looked around the room, I saw five past Chapter presidents, all devoted to continuing their volunteer efforts for APLD . At the district level, there was Janet Enright, now serving as Bay Area District president, and Mary Fisher, APLD, continuing her service this year as Bay Area programs co-chair . On the Chapter board, Maureen Decombe is now sustainability chair, Laura Morton, APLD, continues as sponsorship chair, Amelia Lima, APLD, is our advocacy chair, and Mary Fisher, APLD, holds the post of immediate past president .

I have very big shoes to fill, and it looks like I won’t be retiring any time soon .

As a volunteer with APLD for many years, I’ve been privileged to see these women work diligently to advance the practice of landscape design in California . They’ve been steadfast in their focus on moving our organization forward, and APLD members have all benefitted greatly . We have formed many new partnerships with ecologically minded organizations, made enormous strides in eliminating the use of invasive , defined and advocated for our right to practice, and delivered a wealth of educational opportunities up and down the state .

As an APLD member, your time and investment in continued education earns you the title of professional landscape designer . APLD workshops and tours, sponsors’ product highlights, local programming, newsletters, industry announcements, and conferences make it easy for you to enrich your expertise and stay informed . Visit our calendar often . It is chock full of APLD and non-APLD programming and events . Who knows? You may find a new passion .

We’ll be marching through 2017 with new (and old) challenges, so join me as I lace up my shoes and walk in the company of the inspiring leaders who have carried APLD so far down the road of professional accomplishment and recognition .

Linda Middleton, APLD President, APLD California Chapter

3 Watershed Approach Permeates Trade Shows and Inspires Business Model

Janet Enright welcomes visitors to the APLD booth at NorCal. Janet Enright welcomes visitors to the APLD booth at the NorCal trade show. Photo © Anne Weinberger

APLD made a splash in Northern California this look at dazzling plant displays from some of their February, with booths at both the EcoLandscape favorite growers and nurseries . Devil Mountain Conference & Trade Show, February 11 in Wholesale Nurseries displayed the show-stopping Stockton, and the NorCal Landscape & Nursery Aloe variegata ‘Gator’, and Mountain States Show, February 16 in San Mateo . Wholesale Nursery caused some heart palpitations Demonstrating how the watershed approach with its latest parviflora introduction— to landscaping can be made available to a wide the romantic coral-pink ‘Desert Flamenco’™ . variety of homeowners, Bay Area APLD member Attendees had the chance to explore offerings Deva Luna offered EcoLandscape attendees a from across the spectrum of the landscape presentation on her successful business model industry, from suppliers of lighting and irrigation for front lawn replacement . Called the “Natural equipment to statuary and pottery . Lyngso Front Yard,” it’s a streamlined solution for clients Garden Materials laid out a virtual kaleidoscope looking for gardens that are both sustainable and of hardscape selections, and SPJ Lighting made a practical . (See our interview with Deva on page 6) . handsome show of its mod yet timeless collection An enthusiastic contingent of APLD members of streamlined geometric path lights . trekked to the NorCal show, getting a first-hand Renowned Oregon landscape architect Owen 4 Photo © Mountain States Wholesale NurseryWholesale © Mountain States Photo Aloe variegata ‘Gator’ Photo © Anne Weinberger Hesperaloe parviflora ‘Desert Flamenco®’

When you get to page 28 in the newsletter, Dell gave an impassioned lecture on watershed- you will be rewarded with a list of 65 plants friendly landscaping . Pointing out the wide variety that APLD designers recommend. So please of helpful practices, from permeable paving and read on. Link to Designer Plant Picks percolation chambers to rain gardens, swales and green roofs, Dell emphasized the importance of   keeping water on site and delivering it to plants,     rather than sending it out to the street .    For both the EcoLandscape and NorCal shows,     Mary Fisher, APLD, created a Watershed Approach 

  Designer Plant Picks handout featuring 65 plants       recommended by 13 Bay Area District members .  

  They went like hotcakes .    As the watershed approach becomes the         new standard for landscape design throughout   

  California, APLD will continue to play a vital role in   promoting its benefits . . . and its beauty .  5 Landscape Design for the Rest of Us How EarthCare Landscaping Turned Front Yard Garden Design into a Thriving and Profitable Green Business

Deva Luna Interviewed by Tina Roushall

Deva Luna Tina Roushall

APLD Bay Area District Sustainability Chair Tina This is how I met Ryan Marlinghaus, who at the time was Roushall sat down with Deva Luna of EarthCare the owner of EarthCare Landscaping, Inc . Ryan was one Landscaping, Inc., to discuss “Natural Front Yards”— of the organizers of the summit and a speaker . His pre- a design and installation program developed by sentation thrilled me . I was inspired and knew that sus- EarthCare to serve clients who are looking for an tainability was something I wanted to pursue . My next economical and simple way to convert their lawns steps evolved naturally . into thriving natural gardens. Coincidentally, I learned through a colleague in the field of nonviolent communication (another of my in- TINA: Your company, EarthCare Landscaping, Inc., terests), that the plant buyer for EarthCare was leaving . has been a leader in sustainable landscaping for al- I went out and followed Dan, the plant buyer, around . most twenty years. What led you to this career, and They said “we should hire you,” and that was that . Be- to EarthCare? cause it was a small company, I got a chance to see and work on all parts of it . Over time, my role evolved from DEVA: I knew I wanted to be involved with both plants plant buyer to my current role . I’m still there, and Ryan and people . I had a degree in plants and art from UC has moved on to other things, but his influence is still a Davis, raised my family, volunteered, and was not in the strong factor in the company . Ryan put a lot of thought workforce . Then I got divorced and went back to school into building a sustainable landscape company from at Foothill College in Los Altos . I was intrigued to see the ground up . that lots of the horticulture stuff I remembered from UC Davis had not changed much, and this was a good sign TINA: What were some of EarthCare’s early innova- that I was ready to pursue something that already held tions, and how has the company’s approach evolved? my interest and drew from my background . This was in early 2000-2001 . DEVA: Early on, Ryan held a strong vision when no one else had it . He and Sherri Osaka, ALA, and Stephanie TINA: This is a path many take. They leave one career Curtis started the Sustainable Landscaping Roundtable, and find “the Foothill path,” making a transition. which evolved out of the 2001 summit . They met as col- leagues, and all kinds of good things came out of that . DEVA: CLCA (the California Landscape Contractors As- I recently had lunch with Stephanie Curtis for a three- sociation) put on a contest asking “What’s your favorite hour catch up . Having that network of other colleagues plant, and why?” I entered, won the contest, and got to when you are feeling lonely about what you’re doing is go to the CLCA Sustainable Landscape Summit for free . a wonderful thing . We reinforced each other . 6 Completed installation and mature garden in Sunnyvale.

In the early days, we had to do a lot of things we worked . You can see where that’s gone . (Ed: This work didn’t consider sustainable, just to make a living . So we evolved into a new company, Pervious Products, found- made compromises, like putting in lawns, but used drip ed and owned by Ryan .) Now we hardly have to do any- irrigation for the plants . We did a lot of experimenting thing we don’t want to do, and people “get it ”. with drip, and before anyone was sheet mulching, we were using newspapers under mulch as a weed control . TINA: EarthCare has created a very successful pro- These things are not that weird any more . We had to ex- gram called Natural Front Yards. When did you start plain to everyone—our clients, our employees, and our this, and was it in response to rebate opportunities? colleagues—what we were doing and why . We were the first ones to use LED lighting, and we worked with the DEVA: No, nothing to do with rebates . Ryan had been one company we could find . They were expensive, but cooking it in his brain for many years . We did the first we used them because we believed in the product and one in 2007, after about a year of intensive thinking and the benefits . brainstorms to create plant palettes that were limited It’s really interesting to see how mainstream things and reliable . The first was a guinea pig, and an “in-house” have become, things that were at that time “out there ”. job . Our maintenance supervisor, Lisa Gates, who later We searched early on for a permeable hardscape that became the owner of EarthCare, could not afford land- 77 scaping for her newly purchased home . We did our first TINA: How has the program evolved? Natural Front Yard at her house . We kept practicing, changing and tweaking . This is DEVA: Eventually, we realized that we could stop do- why we offered the one-year of quarterly maintenance ing maintenance . That was a surprise . We tweaked and as a selling point . It allowed us to follow up, check dropped some of the extras that people didn’t want or on things, change out plants if they didn’t work, and ask for, like dry wells, LED lighting, or some of the origi- identify the most successful combinations . Eventually, nal offers . we stopped with the maintenance because it was not We had created a selection of plant palettes, but needed . soon learned that 90% of people wanted a Mediterra- nean palette versus our other offerings such as coastal, TINA: How do you handle the design aspect of the dry land, or woodland palettes . People were attracted program? What is the most important design con- to the and color of the Mediterranean palette . sideration for the Natural Front Yard? Has your Within these palettes, the plants were our choice . We plant palette evolved? gave general descriptions of the outcome, and made sure clients understood the importance of more space DEVA: Yes, there are so many things we don’t use any- between plants, to allow them to fill in naturally . We more because they died or were too tiny/slow to estab- used evocative words to describe plants, based on what lish . Because they were not spreaders, we got weeds . looked good in the nursery that day, and what we knew We learned to focus on adequate spacing and utilized was available . You cut out an entire frustrating process spreading plants that quickly filled in . This took some with plant substitution, and work with what you have . explanation to the homeowners . My design time, and my ability to be flexible, was im- proved by 1000% by doing 50 of these jobs in a row . The TINA: Were homeowners OK with this approach? limited plant palette meant I needed to make things look good with quick decision-making—an invaluable DEVA: Yes—we let them know that the day after you skill for a designer . Now I prefer this method rather than install, it would look like woodchips, and we said, “Just sitting down and grinding out designs at the drawing wait ”. Within months, their gardens were almost com- board . Spacing becomes the key skill . We go back and pletely filled in with the initial succession of flowering check frequently on these projects . plants, followed by the bones coming in within five years . I was really shocked at how different the five- TINA: The funny thing is that you go back and noth- year-old Natural Front Yard looks in comparison to the ing is too far apart. Tell me more about how you one-year version . We rely on phormium, rosemary, handle the design program, and what is the most manzanita and other tough low-water fillers . important consideration, as compared to your cus- tom design.

8 DEVA: You must have the trust of the client . It does not DEVA: Something interesting has evolved . Many of our work if they want a lot of input . Right on the website clients who run into budget issues do a custom back it explains that you get a design document at the end yard and Natural Front Yard at the same time . This has of the process and not before . We are going to make been a budget response for clients that might otherwise the choices, be responsive to screening or shade needs, have to reduce their scope in the back yard . Sometimes general parameters, but we stick with a limited palette . we use those Natural Front Yard techniques in our cus- They can’t say “I hate yellow ”. Well, they can, but I mostly tom back yards, but it’s interesting how different they ignore that and try not to be too constrained . are in terms of the finished product . For instance, we use a different drip irrigation sys- TINA: What’s the most important thing in designing tem for the Natural Front Yard as opposed to the point the Natural Front Yard? source irrigation we do for custom back yards . For the Natural Front Yards, we use ¼” inline spiraled around DEVA: Ryan had the idea that we would not have more each plant with an end cap, so it can be expanded or cut than 50 plants in the palette . I do add in cultivars, which off later . This turns out to be super flexible and great for sometimes makes plant replacement hard . We kept establishment, whereas in a custom back yard, we are good records to be sure that we could be responsive and much more likely to use point source 2gph emitters or consistent in the rare cases when plants need replace- inline drip . ment . We focus on bones—how is it going to look long term . Spacing, bones, plants that are long lived . Most TINA: Do clients migrate from Natural Front Yards to of these clients are not maintenance-oriented people . custom work? They don’t even notice their yard . They are not plant people . They want something functional and pleasing, DEVA: Not so often, but sometimes . It’s a different kind but not a custom look . of client . We also keep costs, sizing and sourcing under con- trol . I go to the wholesalers with a great selection . I use TINA: But it’s interesting that custom clients some- Capital Wholesale Nursery quite a bit . Our standbys are times migrate to Natural Front Yards for their instal- the spreaders . I choose from a basic palette of these five lations. standbys . Then the variety comes with our fillers . DEVA: They know us and trust us, and they know it will TINA: Do you notice a difference between the larger- be good . The other direction, for instance, is a very hap- scale custom EarthCare projects and the “Natural py client with a Natural Front Yard that’s featured all the Front Yards” clients? time on the Going Native Garden tour . Her front yard cost perhaps $3K installed, but her back yard design was

Sprawling Atherton lawn gives way to rich textures and colors of salvias, epilobiums, artemisa, and achilleas.

9 While the former landscape of gravel and minimal plantings saved water, the new “Natural Front Yard” sustains healthy soil and beckons visitors with lush plant life. going to cost the same as the whole install for the front lawn conversion—I went to Emerisa Gardens (Ed: an yard . It was not in her budget to do custom work, but APLD CA Gold Sponsor) and looked at everything that she still enjoys all of the benefits of the front yard . could possibly be drought tolerant . I got flats and flats That was one of our early jobs, and we have raised of 4” plants, and designed big swooping swaths and S- these prices . A range of $5,000-$7,000 is not unusual . shaped curves of muhlenbergia, phormiums and salvias . We still have high demand, and the profitability, fac- This experience made me want to do larger projects toring in overhead, remains healthy . This is a far bet- using the same successful formula . I have a hankering to ter margin than our custom jobs . The Natural Front landscape freeways, painting with a very broad brush . Yard jobs are really profitable and successful . Providing landscaping to people who wouldn’t otherwise land- TINA: Is there anything else you’d like to share with scape is satisfying . Just go out there and see how many APLD Members? dead lawns there are, all over the state . This is a huge untapped market . DEVA: We were trying to do something replicable with landscapes that require a specialized onsite process, but TINA: That’s what sustainability is about. at the same time didn’t always look the same . We could discern what the template was, particularly when it DEVA: It’s less elitist . It brings landscape sustainability came to installation processes . There was a certain level to a person who otherwise would not be able to do of repetition that we could count on for the crew . They this . They usually don’t come to us until after they do always knew to start by digging out along the hardscape the kitchen, though . edges, making a flat-topped mound in the interior with these diggings, and then following up with next steps TINA: How many square feet of Natural Front Yards for installation . This routine was key to making it eco- do you estimate your team has designed and in- nomical and profitable . Then, by doing the plant mate- stalled? rial as artfully as possible, we made each garden unique . Rebates brought people to us, gave us a huge boost, DEVA: You can figure an average front yard is 20’ x 40,’ but we were not counting on them . Although we con- that is 800 sq ft ., and we have done 170 Natural Front sider them important, our business and our workforce is Yards to date, that is a lot of lawn conversion . (Ed: more stable without the rebates, because we have come up than 135,000 square feet .) with a system that works for our clients as well as for us . At some point Ryan estimated we were saving 120,000 gallons of water per year per Natural Front Yard, and after establishment we used even less . Sustainable landscape designer Deva Luna lives in the San Jose east foothills with a huge garden and 50 TINA: You have made a big dent in water use. chickens. She loves sharing what she’s learned as a garden coach and landscaper and is passionate about DEVA: When you think about it, it really is a pretty big edible and medicinal plants, grafting fruit trees, grey- dent . For our biggest project—a 7,000-square-foot water, art cars, and quirky yard art! 10 MEET THE LEADERSHIP APLD’s California Chapter board of directors is composed of an extraordinary team of dedicated members. Take a look at what they said when we asked their thoughts about landscape design in 2017.

What changes have you seen in the landscape industry in recent years? What do you plan to do differently in 2017? How can APLD help you achieve your goals?

Linda Middleton, APLD, President The Mary Fisher, APLD, Immediate Past industry placed emphasis and importance President My clients seem much more on training and education. A skilled aware of sustainable landscape options, and knowledgeable workforce allowed such as water conservation, climate- it to address the challenge of creating appropriate plants and permeable sustainable landscapes throughout hardscape. I attribute this to awareness of California. In 2017, I plan to focus on how the severe drought and general concern I personally, not just my work, can move the bar higher. APLD about climate change. I plan to use more local native plants supports my goals with relevant and engaging programming, than I have in the past. APLD could continue to provide collaboration with like-minded organizations, and a wide programs throughout California about creating healthy network of incredibly smart and creative people ready to meet habitats for native birds, insects and humans! the challenges that lie ahead. Link to Mary Fisher’s APLD Profile Link to Linda Middleton’s APLD Profile Cathy Edger, Secretary Over the Francesca Corra, President-Elect past few years I’ve seen a much greater Having attended the APLD Conferences receptivity to sustainability concepts on the the past two years in Washington, DC, and part of clients and contractors. It especially Santa Fe, I see a widespread emphasis on shows up in plant choices, with low-water native plants, locally sourced materials plants and California natives being highly and the smart use and capture of water. desired. Cardboard sheet mulching is also My clients have been completely open becoming more accepted and commonly used, as are pervious to converting spray irrigation to drip. It is so important for pathways. APLD to forge relationships with sponsors so that we can Link to Cathy Edger’s APLD Profile communicate with each other on new product innovations, plant introductions, trends and our clients’ needs. Amelia Lima, APLD, Advocacy Chair Link to Francesca Corra’s APLD Profile There is a big push to create gardens that follow the watershed approach. They use Ramie Allard, APLD, Vice President rainwater as an important resource for and Treasurer I am pleased to see both irrigation, and they incorporate compost homeowners and contractors rising to and mulch to improve the health of the occasion of landscaping with native the soil and prevent water loss through plants and watershed principles. I will evaporation. In 2017 I will incorporate more trees in my designs endeavor to improve my irrigation design because of their ability to capture rainwater in their roots and and installation skills and to further fine cool the air and the buildings around them, while sequestering tune the use of water in residential gardens. APLD can continue carbon from the atmosphere. APLD’s advocacy efforts help to to help me with design/build issues by providing me with promote this healthy way of creating gardens. educational opportunities, networking with other professionals Link to Amelia Lima’s APLD Profile and keeping me up to date with advocacy issues for watershed- focused landscaping. Link to Ramie Allard’s APLD Profile 11 Maureen Decombe, Sustainability Laura Morton, APLD, Sponsorship Chair We have entered a new age of Chair We have seen a growing horticulture and design, with a true acceptance of a new California garden understanding of how an authentic style. Succulents are more accepted than California garden looks, feels and smells. ever before—graphic shapes that require Abundance, style and thoughtful design little care. Nurseries carry and promote bring this new aesthetic forward, while water-conserving plants including at the same time promoting multiple environmental benefits. California natives. In general I hear people intrigued with plant I plan to deepen my commitment and work to see California materials from Australia. I’ve also seen a big shift toward clients landscapes reach their true calling—to draw down carbon, wanting to grow their own food, or at least fruit trees and create resilient soils, build habitat, reduce water pollution, herbs. I will continue to spread the word of good stewardship save water and strengthen communities. The APLD California and creation of comfortable outdoor living spaces. I will be Chapter has taken a proactive stance by contributing to even more focused on water catchment and have become new standards for a watershed approach to landscapes. We more adamant about reducing water use and improving are a community of educators—not just designers—and the irrigation delivery systems. I always use infiltration areas the organization provides countless reasons for me to stay but have hesitated with catchment since it has been a hard involved and active in seeking this change. sell. APLD might help with this by providing some discussion Link to Maureen Decombe’s APLD Profile and education around water catchment, connecting pumps and safety practices. I think once it becomes an easy discussion Diane Goldsmith, Communications we can more confidently add this to our design arsenal. Chair My clients are becoming much Link to Laura Morton’s APLD Profile more open to new plants in their gardens. They are starting to give up on azaleas Janet Enright, Bay Area District and hydrangeas and are embracing low- President A lot of what I have learned water plants that are more appropriate about the landscape industry in the last 10 for our climate. It’s great to work with years has been through APLD, specifically people who are ready to learn, to stretch their boundaries. because I’ve been involved at the board Link to Diane Goldsmith’s APLD Profile level. This year, I am diving deeper into the watershed approach to landscaping. Tracey Grillo, Membership Chair APLD can help me increasingly implement this approach in my Over the past couple years, I have seen designs by continuing to offer practical events and programs an increase in my clients’ willingness to across the state and creating a larger conversation about how learn about the watershed approach and we can influence change. incorporate it into their gardens. Along Link to Janet Enright’s APLD Profile with rainwater retention and drought- tolerant plant use, I see more interest Kristan Browne, Greater Los Angeles in native plants and native habitats. One of my goals for District President The most consistent 2017 is to expand my own knowledge and palette of native change I’ve seen in the industry has plants. I know that through our dedication to continuous been an increasing demand for less turf education and because of all of APLD’s hardworking members, and climate-appropriate plants. Most I will continue to be inspired by my peers and to be given homeowners have a sense that low water opportunities to find what I need for my business. does not mean cactus gardens and that Link to Tracey Grillo’s APLD Profile there is a wide variety of less-thirsty plants. The maintenance companies are just beginning to catch up. At this particularly exciting time in our industry, 2017 marks an exciting shift for me in that I will be focusing primarily on business coaching for landscape designers. I am encouraged by APLD’s commitment to professional development and I want to be part of the solution. It is great to be a member of an organization that believes in continuing education and setting industry standards. Link to Kristan Browne’s APLD Profile 12 Kimberly Alexander, San Diego APLD District District President The ongoing drought in California, coupled Boards of Directors with watering restrictions, has necessitated many changes to Bay Area District Jane Davis residential landscapes in San Diego. Treasurer More and more, homeowners are Janet Enright Jacquiline Scheidlinger making the decision to remove their lawns and high- President water plants and replace them with more sustainable Secretary landscapes using the watershed approach, climate- Linda Middleton, APLD Debbie Gliksman appropriate plants and drip irrigation. I don’t plan to do Past President Programs anything differently in 2017 but, as always, APLD and like- Diane Goldsmith minded members provide a fellowship of active support Suzanne Baird President-elect for me in my business. Advocacy/Sustainability Communications Link to Kimberly Alexander’s APLD Profile Julie Molinare Tina Roushall Sponsorship Martin Carrión van Rijn, Vice President Sacramento District President Advocacy/Sustainability In the last few years, the perception San Diego District Lee Mangus of nature has changed, with Kimberly Alexander Treasurer more attention on sustainability. President In California, the drought has Laura Kukulski accentuated this, aided by changes Lisa Bellora Secretary in state regulations. The landscape Past President industry is at the forefront of this shift, having evolved Marcy Lott Programs to include more sustainable landscape practices in Programs Co-chair Marilyn Guidroz design, installation and maintenance. In 2017, I intend Treasurer to support this positive direction, both as president of the Mary Fisher, APLD Programs Co-chair Sacramento district and in my own business practices. Michelle Bernson Link to Martin van Rijn Carrión’s APLD Profile Janet Cohen Secretary Membership Co-chair David Clarke, APLD Nann White Sponsorship Membership Co-chair Sacramento Anna Wendorf Trade Show Coordinator Martin Carrión van Rijn President The following leadership positions are open. Robin Salsberg Contact your district president if you’d like Member at Large (Peninsula) Tina Henricksen to volunteer! Vice President Greater Los Angeles Greater Los Angeles District Bernadette Balics District Secretary Membership Chair Communications Chair Kristan Browne Gary Kernick Technology and Social Media Chair President Programs

San Diego District Jacky Surber Hope Nelson Communications Chair Past President Communications

Sacramento District Johanna Woollcott Mary-Lee Gillard Vice President Membership Chair Sponsorship

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                                    

                                        

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  

                     

                                      

  

                           

   

15 Plant Spotlight by Janet Enright Laurus ‘Saratoga,’ Saratoga Bay Laurel

On the final day of a garden installation in San Jose, the nextdoor neighbor eagerly approached me and asked, “What is that hedge?” I was happy to share the name of one of my favorite go-to plants, Laurus ‘Saratoga’. I first saw this small tree used as a hedge at the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation (SHF) and fell in love with it, walking around and around the perimeter, admiring the deep green oval foliage and prominent creamy yellow buds. “What is this fabulous thing?’”I wondered. I learned its identity from arborist Barrie Coates,

one of the founding members of the now defunct SHF, and learned he frequently © John MontgomeryPhoto Landscape Architecture recommended it when we consulted together at job sites. I use Laurus ‘Saratoga’ in thin planting strips as a screen that can be kept skinny with judicious pruning without losing its essence. It’s a quiet backdrop that plays well visually with other plants, as a dense hedge or trained into a multi low- branched or single-stemmed small tree. It can also be used as a large container specimen or topiary. A summer-dry tree, Laurus ‘Saratoga’ is rated “low” on the WUCOLS scale, takes sun or part shade and all soil types, has low potential for sidewalk root damage and is hardy above 20 degrees. It grows from 15-30’ tall by 15-25’ wide with evergreen foliage that looks great year round.

Photo courtesy of San Marcos Growers

In this Piedmont garden designed by Anne Weinberger, Laurus ‘Saratoga’ makes a lush espalier.

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17 TOOLS AND TIPS by Diane Goldsmith The Tool: CONTOUR FINDER In working with slopes, it is often necessary to be able to mark the contours of a site . Using this simple contour finder, you can place physical markers such as flags on a hillside to follow the contour . To mark more than one contour, you can use different-colored flags for different elevations .

Some uses: spacer • To mark the contour for a path that 3” screw and wing nut you want to make parallel to the contour on a hillside . • To mark a location on a slope for a V-ditch to slow water . • To mark a line along a contour for planting .

This simple tool can be constructed quickly line level and cheaply .

To Build It You Will Need: (2) 55” x 1/2” x 3” wood for legs (Here I’ve used recycled oak bed slats cut to size .) (1) 25” x 1/2” x 3” piece of wood for cross-beam 2 1/2” screw and wing nut (1) 3” x 1/2” x 3” piece of wood to use as spacer at the top (3) wing nuts (1) 3” wood screw (2) 2 1/2” wood screws (1) line level Photo © David Goldsmith

Set the tool on the slope so that it is level. Mark each foot with a flag. Then pivot the tool on one foot until it is level and mark that leg with a flag. Continue in this manner until all the contours have been marked. 18 Designer Profile: Garden Nest is a small design-build firm based in Orinda, 15 miles east of San Francisco. Owner Jeannie Fitch has Jeannie Fitch worked in the landscape industry for nearly 20 years and has been a longtime volunteer and leader in the Bay Area Garden Nest District. Residential What inspired you to enter the landscape Landscape design field? It evolved slowly. I first got interested ORINDA, CA when we removed a large circular deck (perimeter for a doughboy pool) in our backyard and re-landscaped. I worked closely with the contractor, creating a pathway down the newly exposed slope, designing a half-

Photos © Jude Parkinson-Morgan 19 round arbor, selecting plants and choosing flagstone. my project management skills to this new work, as well I was hooked! At that time I was transitioning out of a as using my design sensibility in my plant palettes and project-management position with Williams Sonoma’s designs. Then I began taking evening horticulture classes creative services department, where I had worked as at Merritt College . . . and one thing lead to another. a catalog manager for 15 years overseeing the design, photography and copy for several mail-order catalogs. You expanded your business to a design-build After we finished the backyard project, I went to work company in 2014. Why did you make that for the contractor! I was earning a pittance in comparison big move and how has the experience been to my healthy corporate income, and did whatever task compared with working independently as a they asked for, from site measuring and in-fill planting designer? By that time, I had worked as an in-house to picking up plants or driving the dump truck to a job designer for several years for two different contractors. site. I learned so much and was able to transfer many of I’d gained a lot of knowledge about the contracting

Photos © Jude Parkinson-Morgan 20 business and what was involved on the installation side What has been one of your biggest design of things. I also realized that I really enjoyed being in the challenges and how did you address it? One of field. I didn’t want to work behind a desk/computer day the most challenging designs I’ve had was a three-level after day and hand my designs over to someone else to deck off a three-story house in Moraga. The house had implement. panoramic views toward Mount Diablo and overlooked a golf course. All the decks had to connect and provide Do you have a favorite style of garden or access to the patio level and the lower backyard. In a certain personal signature you like to addition, there was a steep slope and protected oaks, incorporate into your designs? I tend to gravitate which triggered HOA and city design-review process. toward traditional/cottage-style gardens, although I I really had to be mindful of views from indoors and really love the challenge of a modern minimalistic design configure the staircases so they wouldn’t block the light or purely native gardens because they force you to and views from both inside and out. I also consulted a work within confined perimeters and explore new plant landscape architect for technical issues during the design palettes. phase to ensure my design was buildable.

What do you hope your clients will learn from You’ve been an active member of APLD for the experience of working with you through many years, serving on the board of the former the design process and seeing their gardens East Bay District as graphic designer for the come to fruition? I enjoy educating clients as we go newsletter and volunteering in many other through the design process—explaining the efficiency capacities. How has your work as a leader of drip irrigation, the benefits of sheet mulching, or the and active participant in APLD impacted your differences in costs of materials. This enables clients professional and personal life? My involvement to make educated design decisions about their own with APLD has been one of the most rewarding aspects landscapes and they become more vested in the plans. of my career as a landscape designer. We have an Collaborating and problem solving is much more incredible pool of talent, knowledgeable teachers and gratifying than just designing something I like. inspirational industry leaders. I’ve made wonderful friendships and benefited tremendously from APLD’s continuing education and professional networking.

Photo © Jude Parkinson-Morgan 21 Photo Bertholf © Rob

APLD has partnered with PlantRight to help its members learn about invasive plants and find appropriate substitutions. As an organization, APLD CA is working to eliminate invasive plants from our members’ planting lists and plant design palettes. Pennisetum setaceum is one of these plants. Pennisetum setaceum has colonized the dunes on this California beach.

THE PROBLEM: Pennisetum setaceum What problems does it cause? Pennisetum setaceum has a higher growth rate and therefore Common Name: Green Fountain Grass a competitive advantage over native plants . It Description: Fountain grass grows up to 5’ tall in increases fuel load and therefore the frequency, large clumps of long, narrow , with foxtail- intensity and spread of fire . It is well adapted to like plumes in the summer . fire and can increase in density following a burn, endanging rare native plant communities . How does it spread? Pennisetum setaceum seeds prodigiously . The seeds remain viable in the soil Pennisetum setaceum is poor forage for browsing for at least seven years . and grazing animals and can negatively affect ground-nesting birds and other terrestrial wildlife Where would I find it? Fountain grass has been when fires occur . If no control measures are observed invading coastal and desert ecosystems, employed, it can become dominant in grasslands including coastal bluff, coastal scrub, desert within 2–3 years . riparian and wash areas, grasslands, chaparral, and along roadsides and trails . It has been reported as Below are recommended alternatives to this a problem in ten California State Parks . invader to your region that are beautiful, vigorous, and appropriate for California .

Keep Up to Date with Invasive Plants on PlantRight’s Retirement List PlantRight offers more than thirty reliable alternatives to the usual suspects, all of which need to go into retirement . The list of plants no longer found in nursery surveys has grown to an impressive fifteen species, including Capeweed, Scotch Broom and Russian Olive . Thanks to voluntary industry efforts, they are disappearing from the marketplace . To be considered “retired,” a plant needs to be found at fewer than 1% of stores during PlantRight’s nursery survey for three years in a row . Click on this link for the Retirement List: http://www.plantright.org/invasive-plants-no-longer-for-sale 2222 THE SOLUTION: Calamagrostis foliosa Common Name: Mendocino Reed Grass Alternatives for Sun needs: Sun on the coast, some shade inland Pennisetum setaceum Water needs: low water / drought tolerant Grow It Here: North, Central and South Coasts; Pennisetum orientale, P. orientale ‘Karly Rose’ Desert; Central Valley . Common name: Oriental Fountain Grass Found on bluffs and cliffs in coastal scrub and in Sun needs: full sun the forests of the north coast of California . A very Water needs: low water / drought tolerant useful size and form for the home landscape, Grow It Here: North, Central and South Coasts; growing one foot tall by 18 inches wide with Desert; Central Valley . arching mounds of blue-grey leaves highlighted

Photo © Alex Lomas A mound-forming, densely with purple . Flower spikes arch on stems with tight tufted and deciduous silvery-purple heads that turn tawny with age . A perennial plant . Upright natural for coastal climates with good drainage or arching, linear green and moderate to occasional watering . Tolerates or gray-green leaves, and wind and salt spray . Deer resistant .

showy, pinkish plumes Photo © Phil Van Solen that last from late spring to fall . Does best in well- drained soils . Cut it back in the winter for best results in the spring . Deer resistant .

Muhlenbergia dubia Common name: Pine Muhly or Dwarf Deer Grass Sun needs: full sun / part sun Water needs: low water / drought tolerant Grow It Here: North, Central and South Coasts; Desert . Festuca californica

Photo © UC Davis Arboretum A great-looking grass Common name: California Fescue similar in appearance Sun needs: full sun / part sun to California Deer Grass Water needs: low water / drought tolerant

(Muhlenbergia rigens) but Grow It Here: North, Photo © Bri Weldon about half the size . A good Central and South Coasts . choice for mass planting . A native perennial grass Deer are generally not suitable for all regions interested in browsing of California except the it . Little supplemental mountains and desert . irrigation is required, but can handle more regular Grows well in a variety irrigation if the soil drains well . Hardy 0–10 F° . of soils and will tolerate some shade . Forms a loose fountain shape up to three feet tall and two feet wide, with flower plumes rising even higher above .

23 Some Noninvasive Pennisetums

These pennisetums have a great variety of color in the foliage—from bright red to light green to golden yellow . They have reddish to purple-tinged foliage and rose-colored plumes . They do not set seed and are not considered invasive plants .

Pennisetum ‘Fireworks’ Common name: Purple Fountain Grass

Sun needs: full sun University State © Colorado Photo Water needs: low water / drought tolerant Pennisetum ‘Fireworks’ Grow It Here: North, Central and South Coasts; Desert; Central Valley . Leaves variegated, with longitudinal stripes of white, green and burgundy . Tassels purple in summer . color most vibrant when the blades are new, so cut this grass back in late winter . Evergreen in mild winters, but goes decidous in frost . Root hardy to about 20 degrees .

Pennisetum ‘Sky Rocket’ Common name: Fountain Grass Sun needs: full sun

Water needs: low water / drought tolerant Gardens . Leu Grow It Here: North, Central and South Coasts; Desert; Central Valley . Margins on the green leaves snowy white . Grows into an attractive vase-shaped clump © HarryPhoto P about 2-3 feet high and 3 feet wide . Flowers Pennisetum ‘Sky Rocket’ a smokey pink color that fades to creamy white as they age . Blooms from spring through the summer .

Pennisetum ‘Fairy Tails’ Common name: Evergreen Fountain Grass Sun needs: full sun Water needs: low water / drought tolerant Grow It Here: North, Central and South Coasts; Desert; Central Valley . From the plains of Africa and a selection from John Greenlee’s nursery in Brisbane . Dark wheat-colored blooms rise high above the foliage in spring and summer . Grows into a striking plant four feet tall by 2–3 feet Photo courtesy Growers Photo of San Marcos wide . Hardy to 20 degrees and root hardy at Pennisetum ‘Fairy Tails’ temperatures even lower . 2424 A Goodbye, Hello and Thank You from Maureen Decombe

For the last year and a half or so, it has been my enormous pleasure to work with APLD colleagues on the APLD California Chapter board, helping to build systems that make it easier for our incredibly dedicated volunteers to do what they do . So why is this a goodbye? I’m hanging up my consulting coat and returning to the Chapter in a new volunteer capacity—as sustainability chair . That’s the hello part . And now for the thank-you part. The reason I’ve chosen to work so hard is that volunteers are the absolute heart of and driving force behind the education machine our districts have created for our benefit as trained professionals who are here to change the world . If you are a landscape designer, you have an impact—no matter how small—on using our land for the highest purpose . And beauty—that unquantifiable bringer of awe, wonder, and order—is an equal player in the many other benefits of treating our land and our gardens as if they mean something to us and to the planet . I admit to a bias, and confess that I am an educator first. My pleasure in providing garden design and contracting services to my clients came from the process of teaching about what, at the time, I called “sustainability ”. There are many names and brands for the teaching we do, and many happy allies in this movement to measurably improve our environment and our lives . Albert Camus said, “Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.” To be honest, APLD prevented me from doing my work, so it became my work, but not until I had taken a breather to dive into developing and delivering educational programs . As landscape professionals many of us have made our work out of what we love. Even better, we are spending time teaching others about the almost magical (yes, I’m gonna say it) benefits of compost, treating our soil with care, and combining plants and water to achieve the most beautiful and beneficial use of our lands—at home and in our communities . We are also members of the public, which deserves the benefits of this approach when it comes to the design and care of our public gardens and parks . But best of all is an opportunity to respond to the incredible demand for a trained and qualified workforce, including emerging professionals who are ready to take the ideas that old-timers like me have been talking about, and bring them to the next level—on every block . We’re the lucky few who get to be in gardens with the public and colleagues every day . Because we spend our time in gardens, we know that the connection to the soil has been broken in many places . But we also know that often there’s an easy remedy to this problem—quality compost, thoughtfully applied, and plants established with care . And perhaps because this solution is simplicity itself—and representative of how people have treated the land for centuries—the only way to share it is by passing the knowledge on, person to person, as it has always been done . Our break with the soil has been only a brief segment of our human timeline . My personal grief and despair for our planet is over. Through a personal process of realizing and internalizing the deep trouble we are in, I no longer think about a dark future—the one that happens if we do not do something . This is because I am doing something . And so are you . We have much to do, and the time is now to influence our future as landscape professionals .

25 . . . More From Maureen Every single sector of the profession has a role to play, and the sooner we can rally around a standard that is solid, simple and, yes—sustainable—we all win . This sustainability applies also to us as indi- viduals, volunteers, family members, friends and colleagues . We all have nurtured the long-sought recognition of the importance of landscapes in our lives . All of us are in this together, and if we all do a small part, a large reward will follow—in the form of clear, measurable standards and metrics; ac- cess to a workforce trained in holistic approaches to landscape making and management; and the knowledge that our designs will be implemented within a framework of sustainability that we are calling “the watershed approach ”.

Do you want to learn more? Do you have ideas, concerns or experiences that inform suggestions for our approach to SB-780 and beyond? Let’s talk about it . Amelia B . Lima, APLD, is our advocacy New Water-Conservation chair, and I am on her team in my role as our sus- Senate Bill Introduced tainability chair . We want to give members in each of our districts an update and a personal opportu- On February 17, Senate Bill 780—Water Conser- nity to breathe life into the ideas embodied in this vation in Landscaping Act—was introduced by new legislation . Senator Scott Wiener . This is a companion to the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance, and We’re starting on March 21 . Please click below for an opportunity to clarify standards and build in more details . strong sustainability components, determine and Join the Bay Area District for an Advocacy Update promote easy-to-follow standards, and achieve the synergistic benefits of good soil stewardship . APLD It is my sincere pleasure to join all of you to help set California members—be on the lookout for more the stage for a future of innovation, collaboration analysis after we’ve had a chance to digest and re- and fruition as we make the most of this year’s plen- view the language as proposed . This is hot off the tiful rains, and make the best of whatever weather presses! lies in our future . We have no idea if this new and extreme weather pattern represents a long-term It fills me with satisfaction to see this opportunity change, but we do know that change is what we develop . We have all been on this path together, are experiencing . One way or the other, we have from early APLD involvement in the CLCA-spon- plenty to talk about . sored Sustainability Summit in the early 2000’s to the infusion of innovation from the permaculture A group is convening to wrap our arms around world, and today’s lighting-fast research on the in- SB-780, and we hope to share some analysis and credible life in the soil under our feet, we are on an thoughts with anyone who is interested . If you extraordinary learning and growth path . It is the would like to receive an FAQ (when it’s ready), absolute best time to be in this business, and it will please email [email protected] to be added only get better, as long as we keep innovating to- to the list of interested parties . gether .

26 CALIFORNIA CHAPTER BOARD MEETS IN WALNUT CREEK

The APLD California Chapter board of directors held its first meeting of the year in Walnut Creek on January 31-February 1 . Coming together to share our support for the practice of landscape design in California, nineteen leaders from around the state convened to discuss programming for the upcoming year, updates on landscape standards, and education and advocacy news about the Chapter’s watershed- approach campaign .

Highlights of the Two-Day Meeting

• Review of District and Chapter activity for 2016 fourth quarter (left to right) Laura Morton, APLD, CA Chapter Sponsorship • Sharing of tools, checklists and techniques for Chair; San Diego District Sponsorship Chair David Clarke, APLD, effective program and event promotion and President Kimberly Alexander. • Strengthening relationships with sponsors and allied groups • Active promotion of the watershed approach to landscaping at Chapter and District levels

(left to right) Sacramento District Vice President Tina Henricksen and President Martin Carrión van © Linda Middleton Photos Rijn; Debbie Gliksman, Greater LA District programs (left to right) Bay Area District President Janet Enright chair; Cathy Edger, CA Chapter secretary. and Greater LA District President Kristan Brown.

27 Photos © Laura Morton © Laura Photos ‘Mr. Ripples’ A Brachychiton has a swollen trunk that helps the tree store water.

Board members tour the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek

Mary Fisher, Cathy Edger, Francesca Corra, Debbie Gliksman and Martin Carrión von Rijn

28 Rain Bird Presentation Introduces Pre-Fab Header, WiFi Smart Controller and Design Assistance

by Alison Fleck, APLD

On the evening of January 31, ironically during California’s first major wet spell in five years, attendees at the California Chapter board meeting were joined by local APLD members for a presentation by APLD CA’s platinum sponsor, Rain Bird . We enjoyed the opportunity to mingle with associates from across the state while feasting on delicious BBQ . Rain Bird’s Regional Sales Manager Greg Steele gave an informative presentation, and his colleagues Jim Winebarger and Jason Daily helped with the collection of products on display .

On my way to the presentation, I remembered back when most landscape folks used the term “rain bird” for all impact irrigation heads . Rain Bird filed its patent for the first horizontal action impact drive sprinkler in 1935, the first of more than 450 patents over the ensuing 82 years . Their spray heads and rotor heads have become staples in the trade since those early sprinklers .

Greg emphasized the fine engineering behind their products and reviewed their most popular products and recent additions . I was most interested in their products for drip irrigation, smart controllers and design assistance .

Rain Bird uses the tagline “The Intelligent Use of Water,” so it is no surprise that they offer designers, contractors and homeowners broad and innovative products .

Thank you APLD CA and Rain Bird for making this fun Designers get a close-up demonstration of Rain Bird and informative meeting happen . equipment from Greg Steele.

Here is a sampling of their exciting new offerings, all Smart Controllers described in detail in Rain Bird’s online catalog . No discussion would be complete without a little talk QF Drip Line Header about smart controllers . I have always liked the ESP- SMTe Smart controller . It is affordable and comes with When building a grid drip system, building the a weather sensor . But the coolest new piece of the headers seems to take forever . Well, the QF Dripline controller is the LNK WiFi Module, which enables you to header comes in ¾” or 1” size with 12” or 18” spacing . use your smart phone to change the irrigation program All you need to do is attach the XFD on surface inline from anywhere . drip . The 1/2” inline tubing is more flexible and has an emitter design which offers great reliability . Since the Irrigation Design Assistance tubing is more flexible, I would use theXF insertion Design assistance, you ask? Yes, design assistance! Just tool . There is also XFS- subsurface inline drip available, name the type of area, the type of soil, if it is sloped, which resists clogging and is self-flushing . Here is a link the square footage and pressure after the regulator to an overview of the XF series . and wow, there it is! A complete part list! Check it out .

29 Members in the News

Pacific Horticulture Launches Four-Part Series Featuring APLD Designers

APLD CA Chapter President Linda Middleton, APLD, was featured in the Winter 2017 issue of Pacific Horticulture magazine in the first of a four-part series called “Planting the New California Garden ”. Each article will highlight the work of an APLD designer, with a focus on taking advantage of practical water-use data to create climate- appropriate plantings . APLD member Jude Parkinson- Morgan shot the photographs of Linda’s colorful garden, including a breathtaking Agave ‘Blue Flame’ on the back cover of the magazine .

View the entire article here: "Animating the Landscape” first appeared in the Link to Pacific Horticulture article winter 2017 issue of Pacific Horticulture magazine. www.pacifichorticulture.org

Photo © Jude Parkinson-Morgan 3030 Watershed-Approach Designer Plant Picks: 65 Superstars to Plant in Your Garden Now

The APLD Bay Area District is proud to promote the watershed approach to landscaping . It works for every landscape, and specifically employs residential landscapes to capture, clean, and collect the rain that lands on the roof and drains through even the smallest yard . Plants in these landscapes serve multiple environ- mental functions beyond mere aesthetics . They build habitat, hold soil and water with their roots, improve soil structure, capture and store atmospheric carbon, and bring beauty and order to the landscape . As designers we strive to select plants that are adapted to the local climate zone and to use local native plants whenever possible . These low-water workhorses deliver all of these benefits while helping you make the most of the natural rains that fall on your landscape . And when they do require irrigation, they are able to thrive on low-water inputs . Below you will find some favorite climate-appropriate plants of Bay Area APLD members .

Janet Enright • Janet Enright & Associates • garden that has both shady and sunny areas . Sweet little coral pink San Jose, CA • [email protected] bell flowers in winter when nothing much else is blooming . 1. Laurus nobilis ‘Saratoga’, 3. Nandina domestica ‘Lemon Lime’, Lemon Lime Nandina: I’ve Saratoga Bay Laurel: This is one only put this in two gardens so far but it’s doing really nicely . It’s of my go-to plants for skinny a lovely bright green in part shade, and so far the deer have been planting spaces, and great as a leaving it alone in even the toughest locations . Good size too, back drop . Years ago, Barrie Coate around 3 .5’ high and wide . recommended this in its standard 4. Pedilanthus bracteatus, Slipper Plant: I first saw this plant at our form planted 4’ on center to booth at the SF Flower and Garden screen a two-story house . Easily Show, and just loved the way it pruned on a flat plane without looked with the uplights . Since then losing its essence; plays well with I’ve used it in front of screens and lots of other plants . behind benches with great effect . It 2. Frangula (Rhamnus) has a great vertical presence . It’s not Arctostaphylos ‘John Dourley’ ‘Leatherleaf’, Leatherleaf in WUCOLS but Mountain States lists Coffeeberry: I also love ‘Mound San it as low water use, and that’s been Bruno,’ which I use a lot, but I’m equally in love with Leatherleaf . my experience as well . Darker, more brooding aspect – I love its dark green, solid mass . 5. Pennisetum spathiolatum, 3. Rhaphiolepis umbellata ‘Minor’, Dwarf Yeddo Hawthorne: When Slender Veldt Grass: This is such a sweet small grass with great flowers . I’m looking for a neat, clean, evergreen chunk in a slim space, this is Nandina domestica I love the way it looks in front of a one of the favorites . ‘Lemon Lime’ 4. Arctostaphylos ‘John Dourley’, John Dourley Manzanita: I’ve wall or along a creek bed . been looking for something in the Arctostaphylos, low water, mid- range height – like honestly 2-3 ish feet . This one is creeping up on Patricia St. John, APLD • St. John Landscapes • me . Lovely orange-ish tinge to the tips of the leaves . Berkeley, CA • stjohnlandscapes.com 5. Rhus integrifolia, Lemonade Berry: I first saw this plant as a 1. Correa ‘Wyn’s Wonder’, clipped hedge on an APLD tour at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Variegated Australian Fuchsia: and gushed about it . I don’t clip it, although I should think about Wonderful transitional plant, low using it that way . I use it with impunity in areas heavily frequented growing to 2-3’ tall, up to 4-5’ wide . by deer . Fabulous as a hedge that fades into the background and Knits the elements in the landscape is elegant with substance . and adds a lightness to the darker greens with its variegated white and Janet Cohen • Honest Gardens • green leaves . Deer resistant and low Walnut Creek, CA • honestgardens.com water use, and its dusty red tubular 1. Anigozanthos ‘Ruby Velvet’, Ruby Velvet Kangaroo Paw: I love blooms feed the in the hefty grasslike texture of this plant, and the gorgeous deep red winter . of the flowers . 2. Coprosma kirkii ‘Variegata’, Erigeron glaucus 2. Correa ‘Wyn’s Wonder’, Variegated Australian Fuchsia: This is Variegated Mirror Plant: Another ‘Wayne Roderick’ just a lovely subtle plant that looks great in various light levels . It’s great “transitional/bridge plant” that a bit neater in part shade, but it’s great for a continuity plant in a 31 can knit sloping soil, with its 6-24” height and up to a 5’ spread . It Mary Fisher, APLD • Mary Fisher Garden Design • has white-edged grey-green small leaves, and trails gracefully in Alameda, CA • maryfishergardendesign.com rock gardens, on walls and in hanging baskets . Low water use and 1. Acacia boormanii, Snowy River deer resistant . Wattle: This is a versatile large shrub 3. Lomandra confertiflora ‘Seascape’, Seascape Mat Rush: It is that can be easily trained as small actually not a grass—looks can be deceiving—it is in the asparagus multitrunked tree . I often use it along family! I love using it with everything else: succulents, shrubs, property lines for a soft screening perennials, in large swaths or in a single file . Can take full sun to full effect . Drought tolerant but also will shade, very low water use, no deer predation on its fine weeping deal with poor drainage . grey/green leaves up to 2’ tall and wide . It’s perfect near a dry 2. Correa glabra ‘Coliban River’, stream bed or nestled amongst boulders . Coliban River Rock Fuchsia: A great 4. Erigeron glaucus ‘Wayne Roderick’, Seaside Daisy: CA native, Correa glabra “bridge plant” that can tolerate a big great as a border plant, low, mounding evergreen (blue-green ‘Coliban River’ range of sun exposure . I’ve been using leaves and stems) with bright pink/lavender daisylike flowers 1 1/2- this as a boxwood substitute in more 2” heads blooming in spring and summer . It grows to about 8” high formal designs where I want a low with 12” spread, tolerates full sun or light shade . Low water use, natural hedge . The flowers are subtle but very lovely . attracts butterflies and deer resistant . 3. Erodium reichardii, Alpine Geranium: This delicate looking little 5. Santolina virens ‘Lemon Fizz’, Cotton Lavender: Brings a bright gem is surprisingly tough and drought tolerant . They even work touch of chartreuse to the garden with its rough, finely divided well in parking strips were they receive regular foot traffic and very yellow-green fragrant leaves (yellower in full sun) and needs little irregular watering . They are perfect little plants to use between water . Grows to 18” tall with a 2’ spread . Give it good drainage or pavers and in other narrow spots . put it in a container . Will be happy in full sun, part to mostly shade . 4. Frangula (Rhamnus) californica ‘Mound San Bruno’, San Graced with bright yellow button flowers in summer . Bruno Coffeeberry: This is the most dependable Californian that I regularly specify . It is so versatile that it can be used in many Carol Vander Meulen, APLD • VvMDesigns • mini-microclimates on one site: sun, shade, dry, not-so dry, etc . Very Livermore CA • [email protected] “clean and green” all year long . Best if you give it plenty of space to 1 . Kniphofia ‘Christmas Cheer,’ do its own thing (which can be up to 6’ tall and twice as wide!) . But Christmas Cheer Poker Plant: My it can also be espaliered in narrow spaces to great effect . favorite winter focal point . Striking 5. Senecio barbertonicus, Succulent Bush Senecio: Fast and 3-4’ plumes of bright color to easy—a nice light green succulent shrub that makes a wonderful brighten the garden November– filler plant in sun and part shade conditions . Just crack off a piece February . Can pair with other and stick it in a bare spot in a garden and in a month or so you will spring and late summer-blooming have a lovely 3x3 lime green mound . varieties to bring pokerlike blooms year round . Favorite of Katie Creighton • Katie Creighton Garden Design • hummingbirds . Oakland, CA • kcgardendesign.com 2. Elaeagnus x ebbingei ‘Gilt Edge’, 1. Cordyline banksii ‘Electric Star’, Gilt Edge Silverberry: Wonderful Electric Star Grass Tree: I like it Kniphofia ‘Christmas Cheer’ background shrub with variegated because the variegated leaves offer a leaves; brighten partial shade vibrant color combination all year long gardens but thrives in full sun as well . Adds year round color that mixes well with most other plants . structure and interest . Also, it adds upright structure, and is a 3. Bulbine frutescens, Stalked Bulbine: Long-blooming perennial dependable grower . border plant . Spear-shaped succulent leaves about 1’ tall 2. Lomandra longifolia ‘Platinum with yellow/orange bloom 3-6” above . Creates 2-3’ clumps as Beauty’: I like it because it is soft mixer permanent edges for garden . with other plants, and maintains its 4. Dorycynium hirsutum, Hairy Canaryflower: with Nepeta Lomandra longifolia shape, structure, and color year round . x faassenii ‘Walkers Low’- (Hairy Canary Clover with Catmint) ‘Platinum Beauty’ 3. Dianella ensifolia ‘Sterling’, Sterling Beautiful grey-purple combination that softens all gardens . Soft to Flax Lily: Its striking green/white the touch with a sweet fragrance creating mounds of 1-3’ wide and variegated leaves brighten up any planting, especially in partial 1 .5- 2’ high . Both are also excellent additions to any habitat garden shade/shade . attracting beneficial insects and birds to the garden . 4. Lavandula x intermedia ‘Provence’, Provence French Lavender: 5. Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips’, Hot Lips Sage: a favorite sage A common plant, but a workhorse in any sunny spot . Makes a great amongst so many covered with hundreds of white and red flowers small hedge . on a 3’ x 3’ shrub . Blooms most of the year for both human and 5. Crassula ovata ‘Hummel’s Sunset’, Golden Jade Tree: Another enjoyment . year round, low maintenance plant with dependable, cheery- colored foliage . A good contrast to upright, spiky plants .

Photo credits: p .28: Village Nurseries; Sunset Western Garden Collection; Bamboo Pipeline; San Marcos Growers; p . 29: San Marcos Growers; Sunset Western Garden Collection . 32 Michal Commanday • Garden by Michal • Tina Roushall • Roushall Gardens • Walnut Creek, CA • gardenbymichal.com Redwood City, CA • roushallgardens.com 1. Westringia ‘Wynyabbie 1. Salvia greggii, Autumn Sage: Highlight’, Variegated Australian So many colors to choose from . I Rosemary: A 3-4 ‘ rounded can always find one that fits into Australian rosemary, with cream whatever sunny garden palette I’m margins on the leaves, this shrub working with . contrasts well with darker green 2. Westringia fruticosa ‘Low Horizon’, shrubs and lights up against a Low Horizon Westringia: A perfect- fence . sized Westringia for the smaller 2. Lomandra longifolia ‘Katrinus gardens . Deluxe’: This is a very sturdy, bright 3. Aloe striata, Coral Aloe: A great green 3’ X 3’ grass that maintains its plant for hummingbirds with a nice color even in the hot summer sun Asteriscus maritimus Aloe striata coral bloom, and I can push to the -- it is said to tolerate part shade as shadier side of the garden . well . 4. Aeonium ‘Starburst’: A great 3. Salvia leucophylla ‘Point Sal’, Point Sal Purple Sage: I use this succulent that adds a splash of color to the garden . plant on my dry, deer-browsed sloped bank where it provides a 5. Correa ‘Carmine Bells’, Australian Fuchsia: A nice low shrub that bright silvery counterpoint to Mexican marigold and other sages . I can use sun to shade . 4. Asteriscus maritimus, Gold Coin Daisy: Sweet, mounding silvery leaved rock-garden plant with lots of neat, yellow daisy flowers . Cathy Edger • Edger Landscape Design • 5. Grevillea rhyolitica ‘Deua Flame’, Deua Flame Grevillea: I’ve Novato, CA • edgerlandscapedesign.com just started growing this medium green-leaved 4X4’ shrub, which 1. filamentosa ’Color Guard’, seems to stay tidy with drooping red flowers that have been Adam’s Needle: This is great for blooming since September! adding color to low-water-use gardens . The yellow leaves edged Linda Middleton, APLD • Terralinda Design • with olive green are flushed with Walnut Creek, CA • terralindadesign.com red during winter months, which 1. Myrsine africana, African increases their interest during a Boxwood: A tough, very adaptable challenging time of the year . shrub to use in inland gardens, 2. Salvia chamaedryoides, Mexican especially with reflected heat . It Blue Sage: I like to group this shapes well and I often use it in alongside accent plants (such as more traditional landscapes . It’s Arctostaphylos bakeri Yucca ‘Colorguard’) for textural great as a foundation shrub and ‘Louis Edmunds’, contrast . The cobalt blue flowers soft enough to use along pathways . really pop nicely and play well with It’s a slow grower and tolerates sun other full-sun plants . and shade . 3. Dymondia margaretae, Silver Carpet: I love using this as a 2. Verbena bonariensis ‘Little One’, weed suppressing ground cover . It grows in thickly, and once it is Bouteloua gracilis Dwarf Purple Top: A diminutive established does an excellent job of preventing weed seeds from ‘Blonde Ambition’ form of its parent Verbena sprouting . It’s a great “chorus” plant to back-up the “stars” in my bonariensis . I love using this instead designs . of lavenders in places where I want continuous bloom all summer 4. Arctostaphylos bakeri ‘Louis Edmunds’, Serpentine Manzanita: plus butterflies love it! I have not seen it reseed like its parent . This is one of several manzanitas that can be pruned up to show 3. Dudleya brittonii, Giant Chalk Dudleya: Perfect for growing in off its legs and provide a wonderful small scale focal point . Delicate rock walls, the brilliant white leaves are a show stopper . Delicate winter flowers add to its interest . coral blooms sit atop wiry stems . In Zone 14, it will tolerate 5. Heteromeles arbutifolia, Toyon: This is a wonderful CA native extreme drought and intense sun, but is much happier when habitat shrub! Its July flowers attract tons of bees and other shaded in the afternoon and an occasional drink of water in the dry pollinators . In November the number of birds feeding on the months . berries can be epic, leading the observer to believe an air traffic 4. Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition’, Blonde Ambition Grama controller would be a pretty good idea! Grass: One of my favorite go-to grasses . It’s a California native (+), is small and compact (+), easy to groom (+), and is just a delight in the garden (+)! Love using it with low growing sages for a simplified meadow look . 5. Calylophus drummandianus, Sundrops: Mounds and mounds of yellow primrose like flowers nearly year-round . No dead heading needed! Its green leaves are a nice contrast to grayer leaved Photo credits: P . 30: Devil Mountain Nursery; Mountain States Wholesale drought tolerant plants . It’s a bit brittle so keep it a few feet back Nursery; Village Nurseries; Bamboo Pipeline; P . 31: Delta Bluegrass; Mountain from pathways . States Wholesale Nursery; Devil Mountain Wholesale Nursery . 33 Diane Goldsmith • Square Moon Design • Tina Henricksen • Tina Henricksen Garden Design • Roseville, Orinda, CA • sqmoon.net CA • [email protected] 1. Echium wildpretii ‘Tower of 1. Westringia fruticosa ‘Smokey.’ Jewels’: This is one of the most Smokey Coast Rosemary: This amazing plants for a garden with medium-sized compact evergreen some space in it . It is deer resistant, shrub grows up to 4-6’ tall and bug proof and totally drought wide . It likes full sun/partial shade tolerant . A hummingbird magnet, exposure . Its soft, silvery and white the plant self-sows for years of variegated foliage is beautiful in a enjoyment . Bees, and therefore mixed border . Small white flowers bee keepers, love this plant for its show up in early summer . It has low generous nectar supply . water needs . 2. Lippia nodiflora ‘Kurapia’: This 2. Juniperus scopulorum ‘Blue Lippia nodiflora ‘Kurapia’ is a great lawn replacement . It is Arrow,’ Blue Arrow Juniper: This is really beautiful during the summer Verbena lilacina ‘De la Mina' one of my favorite conifers for small, when it flowers profusely . The plant narrow spaces . It has an upright is noninvasive in the sense that its flowers are sterile, but it is a bee form with bright blue foliage and is a magnet . colorful evergreen addition to the garden . It grows up to 12-15’ tall 3. Dudleya brittonii, Giant Chalk Dudleya: This California native by 2’ wide and shows its colors best in full sun . Wildlife love it, too! is dramatic . I like this plant as an accent, drawing light into a dark 3. Miscanthus sinensis ‘Yakushima Dwarf,’ Dwarf Maiden Grass: space . It likes a sunny location, especially on the coast, and is A compact version of the regular maiden grass, great accent in a great specimen for a container . Make sure to give it excellent smaller gardens . It grows to 3-4’ tall by 3’ wide, prefers low water drainage . and full sun . It has beautiful fine-textured silvery-green foliage 4. Manfreda ‘Macho Mocha’: This sharp-looking succulent is really with pinkish-brown plumelike panicles . I like to use it in the back of a softy . Its leaves are tender at the tips, so it is easy to put this in a borders and nestled among boulders . garden where people will walk nearby . These plants thrive in sun or 4. Bouteloua gracilis ‘Blonde Ambition,’ Blonde Ambition Blue shade, but prefer a little afternoon shade in the hottest locations . Grama Grass: This low-water, native ornamental grass has lovely 5. Lomandra ‘Platinum Beauty’, Variegated Mat Rush: This is a blue-green foliage and long-lasting blonde seed heads . I use it new hybrid, with light green strap-shaped leaves that have a white clustered near swales . It’s semi-evergreen, performs well in partial central stripe and white margins . It lightens up a garden space to full sun and grows to 3’ tall and wide . with a graceful elegance and blends beautifully with gray-green 5. Verbena lilacina ‘De la Mina,’ Cedros Island Verbena: I love this Mediterranean plants . Deer resistant and very drought tolerant, it airy, mounding evergreen shrub with deeply divided, medium thrives in sun or light shade . green leaves and fragrant lavender-blue flowers . It blooms for months on end and is a magnet for butterflies and bees . It looks Anna Wendorf • Anna Wendorf Design • beautiful in native, dry gardens, within borders and in containers . It Cowell, CA • annawendorfdesign.com does best in full sun, grows to 3’ tall and wide and prefers low water . 1. Eremophila glabra ‘Mingenew Gold’: I use this arching groundcover all the time . I love its yellow flowers and how easy and fast growing it is . Link to download Designer Plant Picks 2. Grevillea ‘Jade Mound’: This plant looks great in contemporary   landscapes . I love its soft green   leaves . Great spaced 3’ apart and    underplanted with a low Myoporum .   3. Callistemon viminalis ‘Slim’:    Eremophila glabra This one is great for narrow space   ‘Mingenew Gold’ screening, reaching 8-10’ tall but

    only 3-4’ wide . It is fast growing &     deer ignore it .  

 4. Ceanothus maritimus ‘Valley Violet’, Santa Barbara ceanothus:     One of my favorite natives—it is tough and reliable . It is more 

  compact than most ceanothus and is great for small spaces .      Attracts all sorts of pollinators .    5. Verbena lilacina ‘De La Mina’ Purple Cedros Island Verbena: I    just love this soft mound of lavender flowers . It remains in flower   for most of the year which is great for all native gardens . Very attractive to bees and butterflies .

34 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Please give a warm welcome to these new members of Julio Ponce the APLD California Chapter . Thank you to all who have Caliente Landscape joined and renewed for 2017! Greater Los Angeles District Link to Julio Ponce’s APLD Profile Professional Members Rafael Zarate Andrea Doonan West Bay Landscape Company Andrea Doonan Horticulture + Design Bay Area District San Diego District Link to Rafael Zarate’s APLD Profile Link to Andrea Doonan’s APLD Profile Associate Members Lynn Hatamiya Lynn Hatamiya Garden Design Mark Harelik Sacramento District Mark Harelik Gardens Link to Lynn Hatamiya ’s APLD Profile Greater Los Angeles District Link to Mark Harelik’s APLD Profile Laurie Keit Laurie Keit Garden Design Jonathan Harnish Bay Area District InSite Landscape Design Link to Laurie Keit’s APLD Profile Greater Los Angeles District Link to Jonathan Harnish’s APLD Profile Petra Longley A Land of Design Student Members Bay Area District Link to Petra Longley’s APLD Profile Lynn Camacho-Light Bay Area District Lara Wilson Bountiful Botanicals Amanda Osborn Bay Area District San Diego District Link to Lara Wilson’s APLD Profile Regina de Freitas Allied Members Greater Los Angeles District

Scott Burbank Denise Mason Burbank Botanical Landscaping Bay Area District Bay Area District Link to Scott Burbank’s APLD Profile Lilia Pharazyn Greater Los Angeles District Robert Leekley Capitol Wholesale Nursery M . Cricket Riley Bay Area District Bay Area District Link to Robert Leekley’s APLD Profile

Mary Elizabeth McHugh Jacobsen Greater Los Angeles District Link to Mary Elizabeth McHugh Jacobsen’ APLD Profile

35 California Landscape Events & Classes March March 16: What’s the Buzz: Backyard Beekeeping with Sustainable Contra Costa at Rodgers Ranch Heritage Center March 4: Harnessing the Rain with BAWSCA in Hayward . in Pleasant Hill . Details at sustainablecoco.ning.com/ Details at bawsca.org events

March 4: Designs in Landscape Architecture, a lecture with March 16: No-Maintenance Moss Wall class at Succulence in Sherri Osaka of BAWSCA in Menlo Park . Details at bawsca. San Francisco . Details at thesucculence.com/classes org

March 24: Successful Container Gardening at the March 5: Drawing Native Plants at the Regional Parks Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek . Details at Botanic Garden Visitor Center in Berkeley . ruthbancroftgarden.org Details at nativeplants.org/events-and-classes

March 25: Wild Edible Plants Foray at Lafayette Community March 8-May 10: River-Friendly Landscaping Green Park . Details at feralkevin.com Gardener Professional Training Program in Sacramento . Details at ecolandscape.org March 25: Hybridizing Succulents at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek . Details at ruthbancroftgarden.org March 8-29: QWEL Training in Encinitas . Details at qwel.net

March 25: Designing Eco-Friendly Landscapes and Water- March 9: 9th Annual Sustainable Turf and Landscape Wise Irrigation Systems with EcoLandscape in Elk Grove . Seminar at Cuyamaca College in El Cajon . Details at ecolandscape.org Details at cuyamaca.edu

March 28: Sustainable Gardening with CA Natives Workshop March 9: Irrigation Troubleshooting with The Urban Farmer with CNPS El Dorado Chapter in Placerville . Store at the Mill Valley Community Center . Details at Details at cnps.org urbanfarmerstore.com/winter-pro-classes-2017

March 30: Gardening for the Senses, a talk with Spanish March 10: Harvest: Unexpected Uses for Extraordinary landscape designer Javier Mariategui at UC Botanical Garden Plants, an afternoon lecture and demonstration at The at Berkeley . Details at botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu Gardens at Heather Farm in Walnut Creek . Details at gardenconservancy.org April March 11: Composting for Healthy Soil & Water Efficiency April 1: Graywater Reuse: Laundry to Landscape with with BAWSCA in Hayward . Details at bawsca.org BAWSCA in Palo Alto . Details at bawsca.org

March 11: Alternatives to Lawn with BAWSCA in Sunnyvale . April 1: Waterwise Edibles & Pollinator-Friendly Plants with Details at bawsca.org BAWSCA in San Jose . Details at bawsca.org

March 12: Wild Edible Plants Foray at Rodger’s Ranch in April 1: Sustainable Edible Gardening with BAWSCA in Pleasant Hill . Details at feralkevin.com Hayward . Details at bawsca.org

March 14: Vertical Gardening DIY at Succulence in San April 1-2: 14th Annual Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Francisco . Details at thesucculence.com/classes Tour in Sun Valley . Details at theodorepayne.org

March 14-23: QWEL Training in Pleasanton . Details at qwel. April 8: Water-Smart Irrigation Systems with EcoLandscape net in Sacramento . Details at ecolandscape.org

March 16-30: QWEL Training in Santa Rosa . Details at qwel. April 8: San Diego Horticulture Society Spring Garden Tour net in Point Loma and Sunset Cliffs . Details at sdhort.org

36 Meet the Newsletter Staff Anne Weinberger, Editor April 8: Gardens Gone Native Garden Tour with CNPS Anne Weinberger is the new editor Sacramento Chapter in Sacramento, Placer and Yolo of the APLD California Chapter counties . Details at cnps.org newsletter . She joined APLD as a student member in 2009 when April 9: The 2nd Annual APLD Garden Tour featuring the earning her certificate in landscape Watershed Approach. Details at http://bit.ly/2jS4WZi design at Merritt College in Oakland . She has served the former East Bay April 22: Tree Care During Drought with BAWSCA in Menlo District board as member at large Park . Details at bawsca.org and newsletter editor, organized a district field trip to Davis and worked on APLD displays at the San Francisco Flower

and Garden Show . Anne is also a freelance writer and has April 22: Tree Care During Drought with BAWSCA in Menlo had landscape-related articles appear in APLD’s The Designer, Park . Details at bawsca.org Oakland Magazine and The East Bay Monthly . Prior to becoming a landscape designer, Anne worked in restaurant April 29: Maintaining Native Gardens with BAWSCA in Palo PR and publishing . She holds a BA in comparative literature Alto . Details at bawsca.org from UC Berkeley . She lives in Piedmont, a few miles east of San Francisco, where she is happily and methodically April 29: 24th Annual Spring Garden Festival at Cuyamaca replacing lawns with watershed-friendly gardens . Contact College in El Cajon . Details at cuyamaca.edu Anne at [email protected].

Diane Goldsmith, Designer May Diane has been a member of APLD May 6: Author Event: Robin Stockwell talks about his new since 2011 . She volunteers as the Bay book at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek . Area District communications chair Details at ruthbancroftgarden.org and has designed the newsletter for the California Chapter for the past May 7: Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour of 40 Alameda year . She became a garden designer and Contra Costa CCounty gardens . after a career in publishing, working Details at bringingbackthenatives.net for more than thirty years as a book designer and packager . Diane May 13: Greywater Installation Workshop with Sustainable enjoys working on a team to help educate and inspire other Contra Costa in Walnut Creek . Details at sustainablecoco. designers and the public . ningcom/events Amy Ukena, May 13: Permeable Hardscape Maintenance and Repair Administrative Coordinator with BAWSCA in San Jose . Details at bawsca.org Amy Ukena is the new Chapter membership and administrative May 13: Eco-Friendly Garden Tour with Sonoma County coordinator . A native of New York, WaterAgency . Details at scwa.ca.gov she worked for over 20 years as an administrative professional at May 14: Vegetative Propagation of California Native Plants Lawrence Berkeley Lab . At APLD at the Regional Parks Botanic Garden Visitor in Berkeley . she will manage our member Details at nativeplants.org/events-and-classes databases, handle member mailings from the chapter and districts, and support other administrative functions for our board of directors . Amy is July 20: Beyond the Shower Bucket: Water-Smart Living at also a jazz singer and leads two ukulele groups, performing Rodgers Ranch Heritage Center in Pleasant Hill . regularly in her town of Point Richmond, on the north end Details at sutainablecoco.ning.com/events of San Francisco Bay . Contact Amy at [email protected] .

3737 Contributors to the March 2017 Issue

Do you like to write about landscape design, new product discoveries, and reliable, gorgeous plant combinations? Are you a blogger with an idea or article to share? Our quarterly newsletter aims to be a trove of resources and opportunities for our residential landscape design community .

Submitting an article is easy . Email your articles, photos, ideas, essays and opinions to newsletter@apldca .org . The deadline for the June issue is May 1, 2017 .

Thank you everyone listed below for your contributions to this issue .

—Anne Weinberger, Newsletter Editor

Contributors to This Issue

Linda Middleton, APLD Anne Weinberger Newsletter Editor Deva Luna Diane Goldsmith Tina Roushall Graphic Designer

Janet Enright

Kristan Browne

Diane Goldsmith

Jeannie Fitch

Maureen Decombe

Alison Fleck, APLD

Mary Fisher, APLD

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