Atlanta Artist Pandra Williams is currently working on a native plant installation in a City of Atlanta park next to the GSU campus – Hurt Park.

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This permanent installation is part of a GSU art program and gallery exhibit called “re\constructingingatlanta: a contemporary continuum.” The site is approximately 200 feet long by 50 feet wide and will have plants installed in stages. Last week Sloane Robinson and Pandra Williams installed the first stage of plants:

4 agastache scrophulariifolia – giant purple hyssop

17 amsonia tabernaemontana – bluestar
10 asclepias tuberosa – butterflyweed
7 asclepias purpurascens – purple milkweed
1 callicarpus americanus – beautyberry
15 ceanothus americanus – New Jersey tea
5 clinopodium georgianum – Georgia calamint or Georgia Basil
1 desmodium rotundifolium – prostrate ticktrefoil
3 eupatorium album – white thoroughwort
4 eurybia surculosa – creeping aster
1 sambucus canadensis – elderberry
1 symphyotrichum pilosum – oldfield aster
1 symphyotrichum lateriflorum – calico aster
10 viburnum acerifolium – mapleleaf viburnum
3 viburnum rufidulum – rusty black haw

There is a lot of ground to fill in; bit by bit it will get done.

This area of the park is mostly on a 60 degree slope, has never been able to hold grass, and can’t be used for events due to the slope. What isn’t on the slope is under the canopy of a magnificent oak tree, and will provide a perfect spot for viburnum acerifolium. The GSU grounds crew were very curious and helped install the plants. They were wonderful – with their help all the plants were installed in 3 hours time.

As for watering, GSU is researching grey water collection from their enormous hvac units. One unit that serves five buildings produces 500 gallons of condensate water DAILY. Georgia Tech already does this type of grey water capture. Once these plants are established, they will be drought tolerant, and need very little care.

Attached is the Hurt Park Press Relese that GSU curator Cathy Byrd sent out.