Our next Technical Round Table for Landscape Professionals 

Best Plant Choices for Water Wise Landscapes

Monday, September 12, 2016     7:00-8:30 PM 

Watershed Resource Center, 2981 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, 93109, at Hendry's (Arroyo Burro) Beach

Suggested donation $10 payable at the door in cash or check 

Fall is around the corner and the best time for planting drought tolerant plants will be here soon, just before the rainy season begins. Join us to explore some of the best choices for water wise landscapes in our local area. Share your own favorites for different micro-climates and circumstances, as well as your experience with how different plants survive and thrive over time.

Sweetwater is delighted to announce our facilitators for this session: Terra Edwards and Katherine Chouinard.

Terra Edwards designs and produces fine gardens that resonate with the architecture and intrinsic environment. She incorporates sustainable practices such as permaculture, water conservation and rainwater harvesting techniques, whenever and wherever possible. Terra has worked on small residential homes to large estates and considers each project a precious piece of art.  

Terra has been designing and installing gardens since 1996, and in 1997 won two awards at The Carmel Garden Show, and there (out of twelve demonstration gardens) she won "Best Overall Design" from House Beautiful magazine and "Peoples Choice" award three out of the four days of the show. 

Specialties:  Native, dry creek beds, contemporary,  masses of grasses, Japanese, eclectic succulent junkie.

Terra has been working with Sweetwater Collaborative for about year and a half now as a plant design consultant. 

Katherine Chouinard is a lover of nature and of the natural systems which surround us. Plants and their place in these systems are one of her passions. She has a B.A in Art, an A.A. in Horticulture, has worked for almost 10 years in nurseries and has some background in landscape maintenance.  For Katherine, landscape design is the perfect fusion of art and science and she strive to create landscapes that work with natural systems as she believes that beauty resides in and results from this. The desire to more intelligently use resources to build and support landscapes has led her to work with and learn from the people at Sweetwater Collaborative and Dreamscape Santa Barbara, a landscaping cooperative. 

Join us for another dynamic technical round table, hosted by Sweetwater Collaborative. 

Technical round tables are held on the second Monday of each  month. 

Our goal for the Technical Round Table series is for each of us to feel more empowered and ready to promote or install cutting edge features, create a support system so we can quickly trouble shoot with each other, use less water in a more efficient way without compromsing our lifestyles or aesthetics, and make our community more resilient. This is an ongoing process and we hope you’ll join us and continue to attend these productive meetings.

The Watershed Resource Center is the blue two-story building on the right of the main parking lot at Hendry's Beach, as you face the ocean. It's about halfway to the beach from the street. Come up the stairs and come on in.