Central Park Gardens of Davis

✨ Thank you to everyone who donated to Central Park Gardens during our Big Day of Giving campaign! Collectively, we were able to exceed our goal and raise $10,401 from 38 donors! 🤗

Thanks to your support, our garden will continue to provide a beautiful and diverse place of learning, peace, and joy for all. Your donation makes it possible for Central Park Gardens to invest in the tools, plants, signage, irrigation, and program supplies to keep the garden thriving into the future. We’re especially excited this year to be able to rehabilitate our kiosks with beautiful new ceramic signage by local artist Susan Shelton. 🌱🪏

Your volunteer service and financial contributions truly make a difference! 😊

🌱 IT’S THE BIG DAY! (May 7)
📢 Today is the day we’ve been waiting for! 🌱

It is officially the Big Day of Giving. For the next 24 hours, support what matters to you. Your gift to Central Park Gardens will uplift climate resilience, nature, art, beauty, and learning in the heart of our community. You can make a difference!

✨ DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT: Thanks to a generous group of matching donors, the first $5,000 donated today will be MATCHED dollar-for-dollar.

💚 How to participate:
1️⃣ Donate: https://www.bigdayofgiving.org/organization/Central-Park-Gardens-Of-Davis
2️⃣ Share: Tell your friends why you love Central Park Gardens.
3️⃣ Celebrate: Join us and other local nonprofits at G Street Plaza from 5:30-7 for music and fun

👩‍🌾 Meet Marina, bringing fresh energy to the gardens! 🌿

Marina started volunteering with Central Park Gardens in 2022 hoping to learn more about gardening and get involved with the Davis community after the pandemic. After several years of regularly volunteering, she joined the board as Secretary in 2025. 🤗

💬“It’s such a unique opportunity to be part of a project like this, not every city has an oasis in the middle of downtown. It’s a real community led garden and I’m so grateful I get to work with the other volunteers and board members who help keep this going. What better way meet your neighbors than pruning roses together.” 😊

🙏Thank you, Marina, for all your enthusiasm and supporting the gardens! 

 

🌿Save the Date for Big Day of Giving from midnight to 11:59 pm on May 7!

Early giving starts now at bigdayofgiving.org 🤗

Help us grow Central Park Gardens of Davis by supporting us during Big Day of Giving on May 7! Your donation of any amount will help us continue to enhance our volunteer-run public garden in the heart of Davis. With your support, we can keep growing Central Park Gardens as a beautiful and climate-resilient learning landscape that is accessible for all. This year, your gift will allow us to work with local artist Susan Shelton to make beautiful new ceramic signage to help identify the garden.

Big Day of Giving is a once-annual 24-hour giving challenge to help local nonprofits raise funds to make a difference in our community. Thanks to commitments from our most loyal donors, your gift will be matched dollar for dollar through May 7.

✨ You can make a difference!

🌱 Central Park Gardens of Davis Tour on April 25, 2026 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM 🌿

Please join Paula Haley, UCCE Yolo County Master Gardener, on a tour of Central Park Gardens of Davis! The tour begins at the east entrance of the Rose and Flower Garden and proceeds northward through seven distinct garden areas. We will explore the themes, plants and artwork in each garden section, blending horticultural information with descriptions of public artworks installed throughout. We’ll stop for some teachable moments about pollinators, beneficial insects, California native plants, and water wise plantings.

🌎 The gardens are located in Davis Central Park, on B Street between Third and Fourth Streets in Downtown Davis. Meet at the Rose and Flower Garden just north of the US Bicycling Hall of Fame.

Our volunteers did some grass trimming in the meadow! Can you tell the before and after?! 👀✂️🌱

Blooming now: the Anthony Parker sage (Salvia ‘Anthony Parker). A perennial garden shrub that does well in Yolo County, blooming through the fall, winter and early spring it attracts hummingbirds and other pollinators. Tolerant of moderate freezes. Prune to the ground in spring when blossoms fade, it will produce new shoots through the late spring and summer. This plant grows in our Beneficial Insect Gardens at

What a great clean up day at CPG! The rain, conditions and the holidays have meant we haven't been in the garden recently for all our regular every two weeks volunteer sessions. This wonderful crew of volunteers weeded, pruned, raked and installed drip irrigation on a bright, sunny, crisp winter morning. So thankful for our volunteers!👏👏👏

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We look back on 2025 with gratitude for all the support from our volunteers, friends, donors and visitors - we wish you peace and joy in 2026
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🌸✨ Now blooming: the Japanese anemone (Anemone × hybrida) is Native to East Asia and is a perennial beauty thriving in partial shade, regular watering, and well-drained soil. Japanese anemones light up the fall garden when many flowers have faded. Their long-lasting blossoms draw bees and butterflies, extending the season of pollinator activity well into autumn!