RGC General Forum

I love the Morris Arboretum for how it intertwines formal spaces with meadows, woods, and wet areas. My visits there always start at the bottom, so I can walk through the meadows and pond areas, into the woods to emerge by the greenhouse onto the path that takes one around the entire space. From marvelous shady areas with ferns to sunny spaces, fairy gardens, log cabins, swans, ducks, and a Japanese rock garden, to very formal rose plantings and perennial gardens.

The space morphs through the seasons. There's drama, mystery, beauty, comfort, surprise, and magic. I love the sculptures and the water features.

I discovered Lenten Roses at the Morris and now have one in my garden. I've tried to create a fern garden on the deep shady side of my house, and added hostas and wild ginger. (Those plantings have significantly improved the erosion issue on that side of…

Greetings gardeners!

For this week's forum post, choose a greenspace*, give a brief overview , and answer these questions: 

• What do you like about the physical layout/built environment of the space?  What do you like about the plants present?

• Is this greenspace a good example of GSI, why or why not?

  
  

*Some examples of greenspaces are botanical gardens, cemeteries, local parks, etc. This can be a place you've been to, or one you learn about online!

Here's my example: The greenspace I chose is the University City Garden Club space in West Philadelphia on 44th St. I like the stones that they use to mark the flower beds, the benches and garden statues, and the winding path through the middle, which makes the space feel organic even though its in a rectangle plot on a busier street. There's a mix of native and non native plants in this garden space--my…

Here's the link to the quiz you are assigned this week! Be sure to use the same email you are using for the rain garden course so we can keep track of responses. Also, feel free to look back at the slides for help. Good luck!

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Congrats on finishing the first session of the GGC Rain Garden Course! This is a quick quiz to test what you learned about the challenges our watersheds face, and how rain gardens and other green stormwater infrastructure can act as a solution. Please feel free to go back and look at the slides if you need help with a question.

Hi everyone and welcome to the first ever GGC Rain Garden Course! For one of your first assignments, we'd like you to comment on this post and tell us a little bit about yourself, where you're joining from, and why you decided to take the course. This only has to be a sentence or two, but please leave a reply on someone else's comment if you find you have something in common!