(updated October 16, 2016)

Last winter and spring, our newly constructed Arboretum GATEway Garden teamed up with student interns, loyal volunteers, hundreds of community members, as well as Arboretum and Public Garden staff who planted over 25,000 grasses, rushes, sedges, wildflowers, shrubs, and trees—all native to our lower Putah Creek region. It’s amazing to see how the plants have filled in and are thriving and how seamless this  new connection point between the City of Davis and the UC Davis campus is!

What is now the Arboretum GATEway garden used to primarily be primarily a large patch of dirt and weeds! The grant funding and partnerships that came together for all this to happen are amazing and now we can begin to enjoy this new garden!  (READ MORE about the background of this project here.)

Click on the image above to download a .pdf overview of some of the green features located at our California Native Plant GATEway Garden.

As always, there’s more to be done. We’re working on completing a new set of interpretive signage, improving our directional signage, and launching more programs for this area. In the meantime, we thought you might like taking a behind-the-scenes look at some of the large and small “green” features of the garden. DOWNLOAD this OVERVIEW, then go for a stroll to see the features in person!