{"id":2016,"date":"2016-10-21T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2016-11-08T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T03:30:12","slug":"collapsed-bank-revegetation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Collapsed bank revegetation project"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the October 2015 flood, Mary Edna’s steep creekside bank experienced an erosion event which brought down a large water oak (Quercus nigra<\/em>) leaving a root mound and creating a mud flat below the yard. Instead of employing a hard structure, Celie Dailey–a landscaper, gardener, and native plant enthusiast who works with botanist Richard Porcher–researched and has begun implementing a planting strategy. The following list of perennial species were installed in September atop the bank and on the mud flat. Suppliers included Roots and Shoots Nursery<\/a>, Legare Farms<\/a>, and Celie’s personal stock. The October 2016 hurricane brought added erosion and salt water inundation, and almost all the plants survived as they were selected for salt tolerance. Through the winter, Celie’s plan is to use woody cuttings as “live stakes” in the steep cliffside. As well as bank stabilization, a goal of the project is to increase wildlife on the site with the use of native plants, and slowly replace the copious invasive species.<\/p>\n

Lonicera sempervirens<\/em> \u2013 Coral honeysuckle (evergreen, full sun)
\nGelsemium sempervirens<\/em> \u2013 Yellow jessamine (evergreen, full sun)
\nPassiflora incarnata<\/em> \u2013 Passionfruit (deciduous, full sun to part sun)
\nPrunus angustifolia<\/em> \u2013 Chickasaw plum (deciduous, full sun to part shade)
\nPrunus serotina<\/em> \u2013 Black cherry (deciduous, full sun to part shade)
\nIlex glabra<\/em> \u2013 Inkberry (evergreen, full sun to part shade)
\nMorella cerifera<\/em> \u2013 Wax myrtle (evergreen, full sun to part shade)
\nKosteletskya virginica<\/em> – Saltmarsh mallow (deciduous, full sun)
\nSchizachyrium scoparium<\/em> – Little bluestem grass (deciduous, full sun)
\nStokesia laevis<\/em> – Stoke\u2019s aster (evergreen, full sun)
\nSpartina alterniflora<\/em> – Smooth cordgrass (deciduous, full sun)<\/p>\n

Images from after Hurricane Matthew, October 2016:
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\nImages from the September 2016 planting:
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\nImage of the site after the collapse, October 2015:
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In the October 2015 flood, Mary Edna’s steep creekside bank experienced an erosion event which brought down a large water oak (Quercus nigra) leaving a root mound and creating a mud flat below the yard. Instead of employing a hard structure, Celie Dailey–a landscaper, gardener, and native plant enthusiast who works with botanist Richard Porcher–researched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,139,129,24],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coast","category-flora-fauna","category-james-island-creek","category-south-carolina","tag-celie-dailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deleteapathy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}