Marin County - Horticulture

Horticulture

Steve Swain- Environmental Horticulture Advisor

The Environmental Horticulture Program promotes sound plant health care in our urbanized county, with an emphasis on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) principles. Clientele include landscape architects, landscape contractors, tree services, urban foresters and public park/watershed agency staff.

How do I tell what kind of oak I have?

Where can I find information on how to sustain my forestlands?

How can I tell if this plant is invasive?

Steven Swain is the Environmental Horticulture Advisor for Marin and Sonoma counties. He got his start in commercial arboriculture working with Lewis Tree Service, in Santa Cruz. After graduate school he worked in Sonoma County as the Sudden Oak Death Project Coordinator, before moving on to research composting as a means of eradicating Phytophthora ramorum from infected greenwaste at UC Berkeley.

Steven Swain can be reached at (415) 499-4204. His e-mail address is svswain@ucdavis.edu .

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