Jonathan Warner
environmental designer, asheville, nc
Jonathan is an Environmental Designer with Equinox Environmental who has experience working across a large variety of scales and geographies across the eastern United States. His professional background includes community garden and park design, urban infill, residential design, community master planning, mixed use development, and planting design. He has a passion for native plants and loves to use planting design as a means to educate people while supporting pollinator and bird populations. While in graduate school, Jonathan worked in public health, and thus seeks to design through a lens of equity, access, and healthy interaction. Jonathan is an avid distance runner, artist, and cook.
lecture:
The Multi-tiered Approach to Successful Native Planting
Successful native planting design begins with an honest inventory and incorporates both ecology and aesthetics in its execution. In this talk we'll discuss site assessment and planning, setting both priorities and expectations, choosing a connector species, and how to build a palette around that species. Built examples from across North Carolina will illustrate the various aspects of the approach.