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Gardening on Slopes
Gardening on Slopes
with Nina Shippen
Saturday, June 27 | 10 am – 12 pm
BREG – EcoGardening Core
Gardeners who don’t have to deal with slopes in Western North Carolina are a rarity. Most of us must manage slopes in our landscape planning and planting. Left unattended, slopes can become hazardous eyesores with ever-worsening erosion that threatens the structures, plants, roadways and stream beds below. Designer Nina Shippen shares methods for assessing slopes, remedies to prevent and correct erosion, and reviews useful plants for slopes. When to call for professional engineering or construction interventions will also be covered. Participants are invited to send photos in advance of this onsite class to include in discussion.
Nina Shippen practices residential landscape and garden design through her company Hidden Road Landscape Design, which focuses on coupling the principles of healing gardens with sound ecologic practices to create satisfying gardens for her clients. A graduate of the landscape design program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, she has lived and gardened in Transylvania County since 2005.
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