Botanic Gardens’ Shoreline Stabilizing Project Makes Progress
/October 01 | by Chris Flood in the Cape Gazette
It’s been about a week since sand was placed along the Delaware Botanic Gardens’ Pepper Creek shoreline, and Brian Trader said a newly constructed anchored-branch toe is already doing its job.
The sand was white when it was put here, but it’s beginning to silt in, which is why it looks so dirty, said Trader, Delaware Botanic Gardens deputy executive director and director of horticulture. The sand is the naturally occurring base for other plant life found along the shoreline there, he said.
For the better part of 2020, Delaware Botanic Gardens staff and volunteers have been hard at work completing a shoreline stabilization project, which includes an anchored-branch toe hundreds of feet long and thousands of grass plantings.
Birds Nest Revetment made from wood found on site. Photo by Chris Flood