Highlights of the Low Line with Meg Turner & Anna Aquino
Date/Time
Thursday, March 5, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Categories
Join the Pocahontas Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society on Thursday, March 5 to hear “The Highlights of the Low Line” from Meg Turner and Anna Aquino, Board Members of the Capital Trees organization. They have lots to tell us about their plans for this project in 2020.
The soon-to-be completed Low Line Green is at the western terminus of the Low Line Gardens, and is a lively space with transportation corridors overhead, and native plant bioswales that capture and clean their stormwater runoff. Meg Turner, Chair of Capital Trees and one of its founding members, and Anna Aquino, new chief horticulturist, will tell you about the challenges and rewards of creating and managing these remarkable public landscapes. Capital Trees works together with private citizens and public benefactors to make Richmond a greener, more livable city by creating public landscapes that foster communities, environmental stability, economic investment and healthier lifestyles. Capital Trees transformed a 5 1/2 acre tract of derelict land in Richmond’s East End, bordered by the Kanawha Canal to its south and Virginia’s Capital Trail to its north, and created a four-season native plant garden that welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
Download/view the “Highlights of the Low Line” News Release.
The Pocahontas Chapter is one of 12 Virginia Native Plant Society chapters, and serves the counties of Amelia, Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, King William, New Kent, Powhatan, Prince George, and the cities of Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Petersburg, and Richmond. In addition to the monthly meetings, the chapter conducts field trips, hosts wildflower walks, and sends a monthly newsletter.
Membership in a chapter is available to anyone who joins the Virginia Native Plant Society. VNPS members enjoy the natural world and support efforts to preserve Virginia’s native plants. Ranging in age from students to seniors, members are professionals, knowledgeable amateurs and many who are just beginning to learn about our flora. While some members join enthusiastically in activities, others help out occasionally or support the society solely with their memberships and their interest. All are welcome.
For more information visit the chapter and state websites: http://vnps.org/pocahontas/.
