Container Plants for Winter Color — About planting in multiple layers and grouping a variety of containers of different types and sizes to create depth and density. 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, Arboretum Terrace Garden, next to the former Borders bookstore in the Davis Commons shopping center, First Street and Richards Boulevard.

Planting for Pollinators and Other Beneficial Insects — About how your home landscape can provide habitat for native pollinators. 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, Arboretum Teaching Nursery.

Folk Music Jam Session — Pull out your fiddles, guitars, mandolins, penny whistles, pipes, flutes, squeezeboxes — you name it! — and join your fellow musicians during the lunch hour for a little bluegrass, old-time, blues, Celtic, klezmer and other world music. All skill levels welcome. Listeners, too! Noon Friday, Dec. 9, Wyatt Deck. (The arboretum announced that Folk Music Jam Sessions are taking November off, and that the Dec. 9 event is the last one on the schedule for 2011.)

Walk With Warren — With Warren Roberts, retired superintendent of the arboretum. Noon Wednesday, Dec. 14, gazebo.

Under the Redwood Canopy — With this program, the arboretum invites people to "enjoy the peace and silence of the redwood grove on a foggy winter day" (provided the weather cooperates, that is). 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, Wyatt Deck.

All programs are free and open to the public. More information: (530) 752-4880 or arboretum.ucdavis.edu (for directions, click on “Plan Your Visit”).

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