Kiawah Island Conservancy

1. Kiawah Island Conservancy Night Heron Park Demonstration Garden

2. Project Goals KIAWAH CONSERVANCY - Demonstration Garden

3. Design Goals 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

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

5. Design Goals PARTICIPATE * Recreate partsof 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

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

7. Garden Layout – Plant Selection 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”

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

9. Main Entrance

10. 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

11. Wildflower Meadow & Meditation Circle

12. Wildflower Meadow & Meditation Circle

13. Wildflower Meadow * 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

14. Roadside Border

15. Roadside Border Fall Interest * Wildlife Cover/Forage*Extension of Wildflower Meadow

16. Butterfly Garden

17. Butterfly Garden • *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

18. Heritage Garden

19. Heritage Garden

20. Heritage Garden * 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

21. Heritage Garden * 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: Cameliasinensis, 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

22. Shade Thickets

23. Shade Thickets • *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

24. Shaded Rest Area

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

26. Pond &Wetland Garden

27. Pond & Wetland Garden * 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

28. Sandy Xeriscape Garden

29. SandyXeriscape Garden • *“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

30. SandyXeriscape Garden Sea Rosemary Sea Purslane Bright Edge Yucca Sea Oxeye Daisy Sandhill Rosemary

31. Horticulturist + Landscape Design