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Introduction
This project is an outreach
initiative of Coweeta Long
Term Ecological Research.
 Memory
Lane is a
garden adjacent to the Macon County Historical Society Museum in Franklin,
North Carolina. It was recently purchased by the Macon County
Historical Society and its main feature is a walkway of personalized
bricks, purchased individually by patrons of the museum.
The brickwork of the garden is
beautiful and intact; however, the plants are not doing well and need
attention. Members of the community and the museum would like to see the
planting redesigned to display the diversity of native plants of the
southern Appalachian Mountains.
Design
Susan Murray, a landscape architecture student in the University of
Georgia's College of
Environment and Design, designed a planting plan that
features river birches as the principal canopy cover. When fully
grown, the limbs of the river birches will arch over the garden, creating
a cathedral-like atmosphere. Shrubs and
herbaceous plants found in the southern Appalachian Mountains are elevated
on mounds inspired by the rolling topography of the southern
Appalachians. Other
design features include the addition of an arbor to mark the entrance and
a sculpture commissioned from a local artist.
This project is in the fund
raising stage.
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