Weber Basin Water Learning Garden

08/23/2026

🌳🌿 Choosing Trees and Shrubs for Your Yard

The right tree or shrub can add beauty, shade, and value to your landscape for years to come. Join us to learn how to choose the best trees and shrubs for your space and what to look for when selecting healthy, long-lasting plants.

Whether you're planting a new landscape or updating an existing one, this class will help you make confident, water-wise choices for Utah's climate.

🗓 August 20 | 6:30–7:30 PM
📍 WERC Building, 2837 E Highway 193, Layton

👉 Register here:
https://weberbasin.gov/Conservation/ClassCalendar

🌱 Hosted by our Learning Garden
📘 https://www.facebook.com/WeberBasinLearningGarden
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08/16/2026

🌿🚶 Garden Walk & Learn: Water-Wise Perennials

Experience the Learning Garden like never before! Join us for a guided walk through the garden as District staff highlight beautiful water-wise perennials, irrigation techniques, and other landscape features that are thriving this season.

This interactive outdoor class is a great opportunity to ask questions, gather ideas, and discover practical tips you can take home to your own yard. In the event of bad weather, the class will move indoors.

🗓 August 18 | 10:00–11:00 AM
📍 WERC Building & Learning Garden, 2837 E Highway 193, Layton

👉 Register here:
https://weberbasin.gov/Conservation/ClassCalendar

🌱 Hosted by our Learning Garden
📘 https://www.facebook.com/WeberBasinLearningGarden
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08/13/2026

08/09/2026

🍂🌼 Fall Perennials

Keep your landscape colorful long after summer ends! Fall is the perfect time to enjoy vibrant blooms, and the right perennials can provide beautiful color while using less water.

Join us to discover some of the best fall-blooming perennials for Utah landscapes. You'll learn which plants thrive in our climate, add lasting beauty to your yard, and help you create a more water-wise landscape.

🗓 August 13 | 6:30–7:30 PM
📍 WERC Building, 2837 E Highway 193, Layton

👉 Register here:
https://weberbasin.gov/Conservation/ClassCalendar

🌱 Hosted by our Learning Garden
📘 https://www.facebook.com/WeberBasinLearningGarden
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08/03/2026

Chocolate Flower!
The chocolate flower has a strong chocolate fragrance in the early morning. It comes across as cheery and is an informal wildflower. It will bloom from early summer through frost. Yellow-petalled, daisy-like flowers have reddish-brown centers.
Chocolate Flower is a very drought and heat-tolerant plant which can live without irrigation once established.

08/02/2026

👉 Register here:
https://weberbasin.gov/Conservation/ClassCalendar
🌱 Hosted by our Learning Garden
📘 https://www.facebook.com/WeberBasinLearningGarden
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07/31/2026

Perennial Salvias are a mainstay of the midsummer garden, providing long-blooming, aromatic flowers that are beloved by bees and butterflies. It’s practically a fail-safe perennial that is deer- and rabbit-resistant, too… plus they are heat- and drought-tolerant.

*Ancient Romans believed that salvia stimulated the brain and memory; they also used it to clean their teeth.
*The name Salvia comes from the Latin word salvere, which means “to heal.” Salvia has been used for its herbal and medicinal qualities since ancient times.
*The common kitchen herb sage—Salvia officinalis—is a relative of the many ornamental species and has a few attractive ornamental varieties.

Information from : https://www.almanac.com/plant/salvia

07/30/2026

📢We have BIG news!
Your property now qualifies for the Landscape Lawn Exchange Program!
Cities in Davis, Morgan, Weber, and parts of Summit County can now participate. All property types qualify! (Ogden City coming soon)

💧 The Landscape Lawn Exchange program is for the removal of lawn in any area of your property and replacing it with water-efficient ornamental plants and materials!

🚨 IMPORTANT:‼️
Applications MUST be approved BEFORE removing lawn.

💰To help with costs, we are offering:
$1.25 per sq. ft. – Cities without required water-efficient ordinances
$2.50 per sq. ft. – Cities that have adopted water-efficient landscape ordinances

👉 See eligible cities for $2.50: https://conservewater.utah.gov/landscape-rebates/

🌱 This is an incentive to remove lawn and replace it with:
✔️ At least 35% ornamental plants
✔️ Water-efficient materials
✔️ Drip irrigation (instead of spray)
Basic Requirements
✅Lawn must be currently alive
✅Minimum 250 sq ft removed (except park strips)

🚨 IMPORTANT:‼️
Applications MUST be approved BEFORE removing lawn.

❌ Not Eligible for incentives:
🚫New construction landscapes
🚫Already removed or dead grass
🚫Artificial turf put in new areas
🚫Concrete put in new areas
🚫Replacing grass with more grass

💧 Less grass. Less water. More savings.

👉 Get started:
My Water Utah
https://mywaterutah.org/Incentives

07/29/2026

Our hibiscus plants are in full bloom. They are the size of plates!