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Night Heron Park Demonstration Garden

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INSPIRE PARTICIPATEEDUCATE KIAWAH CONSERVANCY - Demonstration Garden

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ENGAGE * strong vertical & horizontal axis * focal points sculpture & water features * compelling entry points * sense of enclosure, privacy, retreat * appealing native species combinations * classically structured garden

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* native species does not mean an informal, out of control garden * gathering spaces for outdoor classes * pavillions for informational signage EDUCATE * native species selection : which, where & why (provide on-line resources)

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* Recreate parts of Night Heron Demonstration Garden at home * Volunteer Native Gardening program to bring homeowners into the Garden * Support the garden thru naming opportunities: benches, nesting boxes, fountains, sculpture, pavers PARTICIPATE

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*Hardscape Elements/Focal Points Support Flow of the Garden * Give Sense of Distinct Rooms Encourage Stopping to Experience Garden

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95% Native Plant Selections All flowers specified are native and perennial Year round interest: Spring & Summer blooming perennial flowers & shrubs Deciduous Trees with reliable Fall color Fall & Winter interest from grasses, seed heads, berryfruits Variation of plant height & density helps to distinguish various rooms

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Heritage Garden Butterfly Garden Wildflower Meadow Main Entrance Shade Thickets & Rest Area WWetland Garden Sandy Xeriscape

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*Timber Frame Entry Pavillion (American College of the Building Arts) * Lattice walls = Airflow & Signage Placement *Bog Garden & Fringe Trees Focal Points * Covered arbor passage will OPEN OUT into the Garden space *4 outward facing benches suspended from arbors

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* Place for Meeting and Meditation Sense of enclosure in meadow Grassed covered amphitheater seating Concrete block seating not uniform in height or shape * Wildflower species represented are native to coastal SC & natually occur in a developing SC pine forest Indian Grass = State grass of SC Long Leaf Pine and Turkey Oak paired in wild * Excellent Summer & Fall colors, esp. Copper, Purple, Silver Green * Habitat/forage for meadow nesting birds * Hummingbird attractors, ie. Coral Bean * Elevated nesting boxes

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Fall Interest * Wildlife Cover/Forage*Extension of Wildflower Meadow

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*Main Entry thru 10x10 Timber Frame Shelter & Arbor * OPENs OUT into small garden * Observation Bench * Native Flowers for Pollinators beneficial to Heritage Garden plants *18 herringbone brick surrounds Sipping Pool for butterflies

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* 4 Raised Beds of Mixed Herbs & Medicinals * 2 Upright Teepee Trellis * Secret Garden Entry/Exit * Shaded seating for rest and viewing * Residential Turf - Zoysia * Focal points: Circle with Fountain or Sculpture, entry arbor, flowering Perennial border

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* Opportunities to educate about unusual edibles and/or forgotten uses of native plants * Most plant choices(including plants of bike path border) reflect historical residential or agricultural gardens of recent and distant past * Represented: Yellow False Indigo/Horse Fly Weed: Cultivated as source of blue dye in col-onial era by Charlestonblue bloods/Attached to horse harnesses to deter flys. Teas: Camelia sinensis, Wild Bergamot, Hibiscus Vanilla Bean: Fragrant leaves used to flavor smoking tobacco Passion Vine: Edible Flowers Red Bay: Leaves used as a cooking spice, butterfly larval plant

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*Help to enclose garden interior * Create an understory for native animal/bird habitat * Wide variety of native plant choices esp. Green Mulches Doghobble, Cinnamon Fern, Alleghany Pachysandra * Showcase under-used, colorful shade-loving natives Florida azalea, Possumhaw, Parsley Hawthorne

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* Appealing space for Observation & Rest * Focal Point: Fountain or sculpture * Strongly geometric ground plane + interesting contrast with unstructured surrounding foliage + plant with moss

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* Sitting Wall for observation * 2 Max Pond depth *Interesting Plants demonstrate that standing water problems may be opportunities *Habitat for : Wood Duck, Amphibians Hooded Pitcher Plant * Thalia * Evergreen Blueberry * Salt Marsh Mallow

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*xeric plants represented are marsh border plants + salt & drought tolerant + well able to survive in any sufficiently neglectful situation * Transform the way people see shaggy, on the way to the beach plants + Mass species for orderliness & effect + Set natives amongst and beside plants people are accustomed to ` seeing in domesticated gardens - in this case, Yaupon Holly and Wax ` ` Myrtle

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Sea Oxeye Daisy Sandhill Rosemary Sea Rosemary Sea Purslane Bright Edge Yucca

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Horticulturist + Landscape Design