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Custom Watering Schedule

For a custom watering schedule tailored to your landscape and our Laguna Beach climate, access the Be Waterwise Watering Calculator.

The Watering Calculator is a tool that estimates the right amount of water to give your landscape or garden every week. It has been designed to give you a schedule for the maximum amount of water which your plants need each week of the year by using average numbers for weather, plants, and soils within the urban Southern California area. The calculator should be used as a guide only.

BeWaterWise.com also contains information on area rebate programs, plant guides, watering index, and a native plant hotline.

Online Gardening Class

Want to garden California friendly-style but don’t know how to begin? This self-guided web tutorial will give you the basics in an easy-to-follow format in just 15 minutes per segment. Topics include landscape design, irrigation systems, planting and maintenance, and plant choices and design for water conservation. Four segments take about 15 minutes each. Visit www.mwdh2O.com to access the online class.

Hortense Miller Garden

The Hortense Miller Garden, established in 1959, covers two and one half acres of the upper slopes of Boat Canyon in Laguna Beach, California. The Garden demonstrates the range of plants that can be grown in Southern California coastal zones. It provides a source of visual information and inspiration for visitors planning their own gardens. The use of fertilizers and chemical controls has been limited in the Garden, so as to encourage a diversity of plant and wildlife species.

Our Water - Our World

This website has been developed to assist consumers in managing home and garden pests in a way that helps protect Our Water - Our World. Among other things, this site offers:

Assorted fact sheets on specific pests and methods to manage them without using hazardous materials.
Pocket guide to managing 10 common pests
Information on where to buy safer alternatives to pesticides, including fungicides and herbicides.

An alphabetized list of some (not all) products that are considered
safer alternatives to more conventional pesticides.
A list of products sorted by the pest it targets.
An "Ask the Expert" feature that allows you to ask a specific
question and receive a personal reply.