Photo Essay: Restoring a Site to Native Plants

These photos show the steps we took to protect and restore the native plants on a site for our landscape architecture client. This involved removing, storing then replanting sod and plants from the site. Prior to this it was also important to minimize disturbance of the overall site during excavation and to save native topsoil where possible.  –Leslie Lowe L.A, Registered Landscape Architect

native plant restoration hillside
Native site before disturbance, April 2008

 

Denuded Excavated Hillside
Denuded hillside, the site after excavation, April 2010

 

May-2010-Depth-of-Sod
Showing the depth of sod removed from site.
Native Sod with Plants
Transporting sod with plants intact to the storage facility
June-2009-Plants-in-Storage
Plants in Storage
Oct-2010-Replanted-Hillside
Replanted Hillside, October 2010

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