While visiting your garden, our Garden Sense Consultants will provide:
- How-to information about lawn conversion and converting sprinklers to drip irrigation
- Plant suggestions based on your site conditions
- A sketch of a planting layout
- An assessment of your existing irrigation system
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289 In 2021 our Garden Sense consultants completed a record number of visits for a single year, providing information on low water use gardening and sustainable practices to 289 Sonoma County home gardeners. Undaunted by the pandemic, the team switched gears from in-person to zoom visits to continue to meet the community’s needs during this exceptional drought.
Garden Sense awarded the Irrigation Association 2020 Outstanding Public Engagement Award
The UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County (MGSC) Garden Sense program via its sponsoring organization, Sonoma Water, was named the recipient of the Smart Water Application Technologies (SWAT) Outstanding Public Engagement Award. This award recognizes a water provider that has a successful program of education and public engagement on efficient irrigation technologies and practices.
Do Your Part – Be Water Smart!
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Did you know . . . .
that a low water-use garden in Sonoma County uses, on average, a third of the water that a lawn requires?
A 1,000 square foot water-wise garden uses only 5,000 to 10,000 gallons of water per year, while a same-size lawn uses more than 22,000 gallons per year.
 Before lawn removal |
 After lawn removal |
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Garden Sense is a cooperative program between the UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County and Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership
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