Intern Project Summer of 2009

The 2009 summer interns are Erik Healy and Roger Tenant Jr. Erik is a raising senior at Clemson University majoring in Horticulture. Roger is a senior at Florida A&M University majoring Landscape Design and Management. This year the interns selected a restoration project that included a low maintenance weed control area. The area stretches from the Crape Myrtle Ally to Pine Bay and is in between the Fire Tower Barn/Lane and the Rose Field. The project called for a Sharecropper House, which was gracefully donated by a neighbor. The interns hired a local house moving company to move the house on site. The interns designed a holding pond within a flood plain. A series of weirs were used to hold the water in the pond and flood plain. The flood plain was planted with plants that like swamp like conditions.