Rosalind Creasy is back at the Arboretum!
Landscaping with Rare Fruit Instructor – Rosalind Creasy
Saturday, October 8, 2016 10:00am – 12:00pm
$25 members; $35 per non-member (includes Arboretum admission) Reservations are preferred: Please call 626.821.4623 or pay at the door
Often rare fruits, especially trees, are grown in long orchard style rows. This highly efficient method, while extremely bountiful, doesn’t always fit well in the average suburban neighborhood.
Rosalind Creasy, a long time landscape designer and member of California Rare Fruit Growers (CRFG), will give a PowerPoint to illustrate numerous ways these trees and shrubs can be used to enhance your landscape. She will cover the landscaping and culinary uses of fruits that many gardeners know like loquats and heirloom apples, as well as the more exotic fruits such as pink pomegranates and jujubes.
Rosalind will also mention the drought and point out varieties that are drought tolerant. But her philosophy is that when you grow edible plants you actually save water, lots of it. Not to mention the fuel saved to refrigerate and get the fruit to you. Her theory is that if even half of the families in this country grew a small vegetable garden and had a fruit tree or two, the water savings would be staggering.