VIRTUAL TOUR Of SCBG

VIRTUAL TOUR Of SCBG

Casey Thompson, Georgia Anglin, Ellie Hanna, Kaitlyn Giglio

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Welcome to the South Carolina Botanical Gardens

The South Carolina Botanical Gardens is a 295-acre site that fosters diversity through various native plants and animals. The SCBG is a holistic garden that focuses on teaching, research, and outreach that advances awareness and understanding of plants, animals, minerals, and culture.

Why the Gardens are Important

The SCBG focuses on providing the public with knowledge about building resource-wise, healthy landscapes that help to foster diversity. The Gardens place an emphasis on providing knowledge about southeastern native plants and are committed to controlling and reducing the negative impact of invasive species. The SCBG hosts various events throughout the year such as courses, activities, conferences/lectures, and projects to help extend knowledge to the public. The SCBG also offers semiannual plant sales to encourage the public to grow native plant species on their own. They offer a wide variety of annuals, vegetable transplants and herbs, perennials, ferns, shrubs, grasses, trees, fruits, and various hard to find native plants. These plant sales act as a major fundraising event for the SCBG to help support maintence and upkeep of the Garden.

Supports high species diversity!

Discover the Natural Heritage Trail

Coastal Shell Ring Piedmont Prairie Maritime Forest Carolina Bay Carnivorous Plants Piedmont Woodlands Longleaf Pine Savanna Cove Habitats Pocosin Mountain Bog

Take a trip down the Natural Heritage Trail

Variety of resiliant plants!

The Xeriscape Garden is adjacent to the Needle Garden, which also doesn't require lots of water for sustained life and growth.

Explore the Xeriscape Garden

Recycled Asphalt

Explore the Birding Garden

enhances biodiversity

-Natural Water Source for plants and animals -Ducks eat insects and weeds, no chemical additives needed -Provides mositure that improves soil heath

Explore the Duck Pond

The Botanical Gardens is home to many species of butterflies such as Monarchs, Eastern Tiger Swallowtails, and Gulf Fritillaries. They play an important role in sustainablity Main contributions:

• Help pollinate plants
• Used to measure sustainabilty and enviroment problems
• Support Biodiversity

WHy butterflies are important To sustainabilty

Explore the Butterfly Garden

This is a working vegetable and herb garden that is used by the children in the SCBG's education and after-school programs

• Promotes educational learning
• Grow a variety of seasonal vegetables, flowers, herbs, and cover crops
• Is a "melting pot" of vegetables from around the world

What is the Food for thought garden?

Explore the Food for Thought Garden

THANK YOU!

We hope you enjoyed your virtual tour of the South Carolina Botanical Garden!

Birding Garden

• Designed to help bring awareness to the natural world and connect the community with nature
• Developed in collaboration with the South Carolina Botanical Garden and the Clemson University Architecture Department
• Includes native plants to provide birds with necessary nesting materials and food
• Has a variety of plants of different heights to encourage different species of birds

Sustainable Practices used in the Butterfly Garden

1. Native Plants are used - provide better soil health and are more drought tolerant2. Less fertizler use - rely on natural ecological balance from not only butterflies but also bees and other insects 3. Pollinator habitat design - it provides all the needs for the butterflies in one place. It has food (nector), the host plants, shelter and water sources all accessible to the butterflies which will in turn increase biodiversity.

Bird Watching Structure

• Demolished and reused the asphalt from the parking lot behind the Bob Campbell Geology Museum
• Materials are designed to mimic nature
• bird feather look to shed
• color of railings and shed blend in
• Shape of shed is meant to project user's view out into the garden and assist them in focuses on the trees and wildlife
• Ramp is ADA compliant
• Binoculars provided to view the birds

Types of Species in the pond

Mexican Bush Sage - Salvia Leucantha

• Attracts pollinators such as bees and hummingbirds
• Important for sustaining ecosystem health and plant biodiversity

This garden yields over 600 pounds of produce annually, which is donated to one of the local community food pantries

The Xeriscape Garden

This garden features low maintenance, drought-tolerant species that require little water and are capable of withstanding dry conditions.

Youtube: Xeriscape garden Tour Boulder, Colorado

Floating wetlands help to reduce pollution and improve the water quality by processing excess nutrients to prevent algal blooms