Learning To Be Home – 25 years of designing with PNW native plants: Lessons, inspirations, and questions with Shannon Nichol

This is an exciting time in our region for creativity, innovation, experimentation, and friendship centered on rediscovering the rich seasonal gifts and garden-worthy beauty of our own native plants. Shannon’s lecture will share an open conversation and ongoing process of learning about how to design with and steward these plants in garden settings.

As co-founder of GGN, Shannon’s enthusiasm for the distinct beauty and importance of the Pacific Northwest’s native plants spurred the firm’s commitment to specifying locally native plant palettes in their work regionally and around the world, which has led to collaborations and friendships with many local plantspeople, gardeners, and nurseries. The last 15 years of Shannon’s commitment to openly experiment in her own gardens, while sharing successes and failures with our region’s under-utilized native plants, has led her to form friendships and alliances with people in a spectrum of roles who are learning together and creatively exploring these plants.