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Shannon Nichol has been practicing landscape architecture for 25 years in the Seattle-based firm she co-founded, GGN. While her design work in parks, gardens, and planning has ranged around the world, Shannon brings a localized approach strongly influenced by growing up on a Sumas Mountain logging road and watching the interactions between people, plants, and animals in Whatcom County’s recently-colonized landscape.
Shannon has leveraged GGN’s platform in the Pacific Northwest to facilitate more availability and use of native plants in our region’s built environment and, most recently, to foster the desire for native plants in residential gardeners. Shannon will cite several project examples in this talk, including Chicago’s Lurie Garden, the Burke Museum’s Camas meadow, and several 100% native residential gardens in the Seattle area. She will also discuss GGN’s Meadowshop Initiative, which aims to bring aesthetically driven native gardens into more affordable and replicable residential contexts.
This is a virtual meeting! Zoom registration will be availabe through the primary WNPS website soon (www.wnps.org).
Photo courtesy of Shannon Nichol/GGN: Lurie Garden, Chicago
