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Night Heron Park
Demonstration Garden
KIAWAH CONSERVANCY - Demonstration Garden
INSPIRE
EDUCATE
PARTICIPATE
ENGAGE
* classically structured garden
* strong vertical & horizontal axis
* focal points – sculpture & water features
* compelling entry points
* sense of enclosure, privacy, retreat
* appealing native species combinations
EDUCATE
* “native” species does not mean an informal, “out of control” garden
* gathering spaces for outdoor classes
* pavillions for informational signage
* native species selection : which, where & why (provide on-line resources)
PARTICIPATE
* 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
*Hardscape Elements/Focal Points
Support Flow of the Garden * Give Sense of Distinct Rooms
Encourage Stopping to Experience Garden
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”
Wildflower Meadow
WWetland Garden
Butterfly Garden
Sandy Xeriscape
Shade Thickets & Rest Area
Heritage
Garden
Main
Entrance
*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
* 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
Fall Interest * Wildlife Cover/Forage*Extension of Wildflower Meadow
*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
* 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
* 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 Charleston”blue 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
*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
* Appealing space for Observation & Rest
* Focal Point: Fountain or sculpture
* Strongly geometric ground plane
+ interesting contrast with unstructured surrounding
foliage
+ plant with moss
* 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
*“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
Sea Rosemary
Bright Edge Yucca
Sea Oxeye Daisy
Sea Purslane
Sandhill Rosemary
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