Field Day Bed Plantings Guide for 2018
Our new Bed Planting Guide at work in the tours
An enhanced perk that attendees received this year was the new and improved Field Day Bed Planting Guide for 2018. It’s Sara’s brainchild—she wanted guests to take away more than a simple list of plants. This oversized book features a garden plan for all of the beds that we built, along with the names of all the plants we used in each specific bed.
These garden plans show our strategy toward placement throughout the gardens, and we left plenty of space for your comments and observations as you walked through the gardens. We hope the book becomes a reference tool to keep on the shelf and refer to for future plantings.
We’d also like to thank our new employee, Amy Day, for doing all the beautiful full-color Display Bed drawings. Amy was a student in the UC Horticultural program—she helped install the Pathway Garden for Field Day last year. Her major was Sustainability.
Amy’s favorite Display Bed is the Pollinator Garden, for its warm colors and continual state of change throughout the summer. This garden has “changed into a different form of beauty,” she reports. “The seed pods are ripening, and some of them have already split open to reveal their milkweed.” For Amy, the change is the thing—it connects with her interest in sustainability.
Our new Field Day Bed Planting Guide had a very limited run: it was only available to attendees of our Field Day event. Make a point of coming next year—you’re going to want a copy!
Our new employee, Amy Day, drew all the garden plans by hand in colored pencil
