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In addition to building on the Presidential Center’s symbolic content, and celebrating the beauty of the native Texas plant palette, all elements within the landscape scheme support the larger project’s ambitious sustainability objectives by increasing biodiversity, restoring native habitat, limiting the need for extensive irrigation and maintenance, and retaining stormwater runoff in wet areas of the site and in underground cisterns, diverting water to the city system only under extreme conditions. The diverse landscape functions that are supported by this design will allow the Presidential Center to become an integrated part of its social and environmental context.
The landscape will include:
- Tall grasses evoking Texas’s native Blackland Prairie
- Seasonal wildflowers displayed in a sheltered meadow
- Savannah and woodland clearings that provide a range of native habitat for butterflies, birds, and other wildlife species
- A grove of canopy trees indigenous to the region, including Cedar Elms, Pecans, and Blackjack Oaks
- Numerous gardens and courtyards featuring hedges of native Yaupon Holly, Prairie Phlox, Mealy Blue Sage, American Beautyberry and Mexican Plum, Scarlet Buckey, and Southern Magnolia
- Shaded lawns for picnicking and playing
Tree Plantings – includes a wide range of native species such as Cedar Elm, Pecan, Shumard Red Oak, Bur Oak, Cottonwood, Black Willow, Texas Redbud, Blackhaw Viburnum, Texas Buckeye and Possumhaw.
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Prairie Plantings – includes a wide range of native species such as Big Bluestem, Little Bluestem, Indiangrass, Purple Three Awn, Blue Grama, Buffalograss, Side-oats Grama, Black-Eyed Susan, Indian Blanket, Purple Coneflower, Butterfly Weed, Horsemint and Green Sprangletop.
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Wildflower Meadow Plantings – includes a wide range of native species such as Texas Bluebonnet, Wine Cup, Gayfeather, Texas Paintbrush, Wine Cup and Lemon Mint.
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Native Turf – includes Buffalograss, Blue Grama, Hairy Grama, Texas Grama, Hairy Tridens, Curlymesquite and Poverty Dropseed.
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Irrigation Cistern – 260,000 gallons, provides 50% of irrigation demand for the site.
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Shrubs – includes a wide range of native species such as Fragrant Mist Flower, Flame Acanthus, Wild Blue Indigo Button Bush, Prairie Rose, Fragrant Sumac and Texas Yucca.
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