Free Gardening CD!

Learn how to beautify your garden the water efficient way!

Sonoma and Marin Water Wise Software Opening Screen

Gardens: The program is filled with over 500 residential landscape photographs. It has garden tours which allows you to move about several outstanding landscapes. Plants are hot-linked in the pictures for easy identification. It has a garden gallery that groups great landscape pictures into helpful categories like, front yards, back yards, raised planters, fences, gates, and walkways, plus much more. See what is possible for your garden.

Plants: The program comes with a built in plant database of over 1000 water efficient plants researched and reviewed by local horticulturists. You can look up plants from problem solving lists, look them up by name or perform a search by answering a brief number of easy to answer questions. Print out a list of plants you like and run off to the nursery for purchases to aid you in your next landscape improvement project.

Book on CD: The software contains a robust information section for helping you with just about any landscape situation. Find out about garden design, principles and practice of irrigation and garden care. Plus landscape reference sources and much more.

Overview: Water-Wise Gardening in the Santa Clara County is a project undertaken in conjunction with Sonoma County Water Agency, Marin Municipal, North Marin, Forestville, Valley of the Moon Water Districts plus the cities of Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Rohnert Park and Cotati, Sonoma and Windsor.. It has a wealth of local residential photography and information to help the homeowner improve their garden in the water efficient way.

How do get your Free CD: The only requirement to obtain a copy of the software is that you must live in the service area of the participating water district! To acquire your free CD contact your local water agency or click here.