Water Efficient Landscape Garden

The Beauty of Water Efficiency

Beautiful trees, fragrant flowers, and delicate herbs—did you know you could have all this beauty and water efficiency, too? The Fair Oaks Water Efficient Landscape (WEL) Garden will show you how!

What is a “WEL Garden”?

A WEL Garden is a living landscape demonstration located in the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center in Fair Oaks Park, featuring drought-tolerant plants, trees, and shrubs. Is it a dry, desert-like garden? No way! Water-efficient gardening allows you to enjoy a beautiful garden with an array of colors, textures, and fragrances—all while also using less water.

The FOWD WEL Garden features a half-acre of landscaping, including four backyard exhibits with the following themes:

California Native Garden
Meditation Garden
Common Variety Garden
Mediterranean Garden

These exhibits showcase different design possibilities for unique and beautiful water-wise landscaping, as well as demonstrate water conservation techniques, including:

Recirculating, low-flow fountains.
Low-flow and drip irrigation systems.
Methods for reducing evaporation and artificial irrigation.
Proper placement of shade trees.

The FOWD WEL Garden is located in the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center at Fair Oaks Park (on Fair Oaks Boulevard, east of Sunrise Boulevard, and just south of Madison Avenue). The Garden is open to the public year-round, free of charge, for self-guided tours, regularly scheduled irrigation demonstrations, and water-efficient gardening workshops.

Website Accessibility Policy

Fair Oaks Water District is fully committed to providing accessible facilities, elements and channels of communication to all members of the public. As part of this commitment, Fair Oaks Water District has a policy of providing an accessible website compatible with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) and commercial screen reading software. All features of the website are coded to allow individuals with vision and other impairments to understand and use the website to the same degree as someone without disabilities. We welcome feedback and can often resolve issues in a timely manner if they arise.

If you need any special assistance or accommodations:

Call us at (916) 967-5723

Ongoing Compliance Information

Compliance Officer

Fair Oaks Water District has designated a compliance officer for website disability-related accommodations. The compliance officer has received training in website accessibility and updates the site in accordance with those best practices. Contact our accessibility officer to report an issue.

Compliance Procedures and Reports

In addition to testing with users with a wide range of disabilities and coding our website to WCAG standards, Fair Oaks Water District regularly scans its website to ensure ongoing compliance, and makes timely changes to any inaccessible changes, if any are found.

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Please note that this site may link out to third-party websites, such as state or federal agencies, that do not have accessible content. This site may also include documents provided by third parties included in our agenda packets, for example. While we cannot control the accessibility of content provided by third parties, we are happy to assist any member of the public with reading and accessing content on our site.

See an opportunity for us to improve? Please contact our accessibility officer or call us at (916) 967-5723.

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