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OSU Botanical Garden Future Expansion
- Currently construction is in Phase I containing entrance road, bioretention cells, ADA walkways, and parking lot. Bioretention cells are a landscaped area designed to reduce runoff and improve water quality for a limited drainage area. Urban stormwater runoff is at the forefront of environmental issues today. Nutrients, heavy metals, and organic chemicals are transported to streams and lakes and negatively affect the water quality and the surrounding habitat.
- The comprehensive IERES plan is to construct one of the most comprehensively designed integrated environmental systems for demonstration, research, and academic/public education in the U.S. It will include a myriad of "green" practices such as sustainable landscape design, construction and maintenance practices and earth-kind horticultural gardens, pollution mitigation (ground and visual); environmental filters; stream bank stabilization measures; habitat preservation; stormwater management systems addressing erosion control, ground water recharge, and pollutant removal; water capture, redistribution, conservation and reuse in the landscape; utility management systems; and green building techniques.
- The construction yard will provide space for landscape installation projects and certification testing by the state's landscape professionals.
- Modular test sites will permit students to practice the successful installation of decks, paving, retaining walls, arbors, irrigation systems, ponds, plants and more.
- Consumers will have place to learn about landscape construction practices, materials, maintenance, and appropriate applications.
- Plants and other design elements are selected for a sensory garden with the intention to provide experiences for seeing, smelling, hearing, touching and tasting. Regardless of the designer's interpretation of what a sensory garden is, the expectation is that the garden will be accessible and designed for universal enjoyment.
- The Utility Garden will demonstrate harmonious design techniques to integrate utility boxes, power lines, and meters etc. into municipal and residential landscape.
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