Join us on May 21 from 2-4pm in our garden to see what is blooming at the Love Your Mother Earth - Sustainability Fair. This FREE community event provides a unique opportunity to learn about water conservation and sustainable services, resources, and materials from the Chino Basin Water Conservation District and community partners. At this event, discover how to live more sustainably with giveaways, kid-friendly activities, and demonstrations.

Use your Senses to experience our free public garden in a new way. Now open at the Waterwise Demonstration Garden is a new educational encounter, the Sensory Garden. This garden offers opportunities to use one or more of your senses as a fun, hands-on experience. Planters are filled with a variety of edible plants and others selected for their texture and scent. As you explore the garden, follow the signs and use your powers of observation to find new things to look for, listen to, touch, and sniff. 

The Free Waterwise Demonstration Garden is open to the public Monday-Saturday from 8am-4pm. 

Spring is in full bloom, and the Chaparral Currant is one of the stars of a spring waterwise garden!  This late winter/spring aromatic bloomer showcases vibrant colors with flowers that feed  pollinators and butterflies. Flowers develop into a tart edible currant fruit that songbirds love. Did we mention that multiple species of butterfly caterpillar also use the leaves of the plant as their food source? You'd be unlikely to notice them until they mature into butterflies, and catepillars are the most important food for most baby birds.  Best in partly shaded area in inland gardens, this plant is a wonder of beauty and value to our local wildlife! 

Learn more about this and other native plants at the Inland Valley Garden Planner.