Natural Beauty: How to Incorporate Native Plants into Mainstream Landscape Designs
Natural Beauty: How to Incorporate Native Plants into Mainstream Landscape Designs
Sara Bellaire
2020-04-18T11:45:00 - 2020-04-18T12:30:00
Description
The science and ecology behind using native plants in our landscapes is abundantly clear. As a Landscape Architect, I often hear from informed clients that they want to put in native plants around their properties but don’t know how to do so that can allow you to have an ecologically functional yard while maintaining a mainstream design aesthetic.
Bio
Sara is a Sr. Landscape Architect at Shift Landscape Architecture. Sara's experience is diverse and includes working for a family-owned nursery and design/build company along with small and large consulting firms and provincial and municipal governments. As a result, she is comfortable working on a broad spectrum of projects. Within Shift, Sara is a planting specialist and lends her expertise of green infrastructure techniques and the needs of plants to projects. Sara is also a professor at Fanshawe College teaching in the Landscape Design Diploma and Environmental Design & Planning Degree programs. Recently her work has been focusing on how to incorporate native plants into our urban landscapes.