Dear Garden lovers, Fall is the best time to plant in CA! The best to plant in the California is late fall, early winter when days are shorter, rain is […]
Los Angeles Designer Plant Fair 2021 Info
Come get inspired for Fall/Winter planting season! Join us for a day of lectures, shopping, and mingling with top SoCal growers and wholesale nurseries as they introduce their plants and […]
February 26, 2021: EEC California Advocacy Training
APLD-CA Advocacy & Sustainability Invites All California Members Please Join Us Friday, February 26, 2021 from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. for California Advocacy Training Presented by Environmental & Energy Consulting (EEC) […]
Remembering Debby Ruskin
As most of you know our beloved Debby Ruskin died March 28, 2020. Debby, founder of Ruskin Garden Design, for over 35 years created beautiful residential landscape designs in the […]
APLD & LASAN Present the 2020 Biodiversity Symposium
Biodiversity hotspots are home to unique flora and fauna, many of which are endemic to a particular environment. The City of Los Angeles is fortunate to be one of only 36 biodiversity […]
Update & What’s Next?: Watershed Wise Landscape Professional (WWLP) Training
APLD CA and its members have ardently embraced the principles of the Watershed Approach to Landscapes. In 2018, the California Watershed Approach to Landscape Design handbook was published and put […]
G3 Watershed Wise Landscape Professional Certification Training: November 7 & 8
Today’s landscape professionals need to be more than water wise, we need to become Watershed Wise Landscape Professionals (WWLP) to manage limited resources without sacrificing the beauty and functionality of our […]
APLD CA “Signs on” to Letter to Support H.R. 2313 for Tax Exempt Water Conservation Rebates
The APLD CA Chapter recently “signed on” to a letter that the Alliance for Water Efficiency and 72 other agencies, organizations, and interested parties submitted to support H.R. 2313, the Water Conservation Tax […]
California Model Water Efficiency Ordinance (MWELO) 2020 Update
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) published on March 6, 2019 their decision “to defer the update for 2020” of the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO). You can read […]
State of the APLD (2018)
In the video below Dan Maffei, President of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, talks about the state of the organization as of 2018. Topics covered in this 25-minute talk […]
