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Meridian Township

Giving Form to Proactive Climate Action

The fall of 2019 welcomed a diverse planting at the corner of Marsh Road and Central Park Drive in Okemos, MI. Inspired by Meridian Township’s Climate Action goals, we designed a foreground planting for their newly installed 20kW solar panel. The pollinator friendly plant groupings interweave throughout the planting bed to communicate the interconnected complexity of climate.

Solar Panel Planting Vision

The Township had several goals for the panel’s contextual plantings:

  • Communicate Meridian Township’s commitment to meeting its climate action goals
  • Propose plantings that can potentially be repeated throughout the Township to reduce areas of turfgrass mowing in the future
  • Propose plantings that provide wildlife / pollinator habitat
  • Soften the industrial look of the solar panel (without casting shadow on the panel)
Demonstration of the layout of the pollinator planting in a colored plan view graphic
Pollinator plants weave through the planting creating a context for the solar panel.

Dynamic Nature

The solar panel plants have a variety of flower colors, leaf textures and foliage colors that change throughout the seasons. Luke Landscape Company did a great job of installing the serpentine plant masses that weave throughout the solar panel planting. The ever changing nature of the planting celebrates the solar panel and gives residents something new to see each time they drive by.

Red, purple and yellow fall color of plants
Fall color and texture add interest to planting
Pollinator plants as foreground for solar panel
Sweeping bed edge complements panel
Clock tower is visible behind solar panel
Iconic clock tower behind solar panel
Yellow fall color of finely textured amsonia weaves through planting
Pollinator plants wind through planting
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Location

Okemos, MI

Completion Date

Fall 2019

Project Type

Community Amenity

Professional Services

Concept Landscape Plan, Presentation Graphics, Construction Documents, Cost Estimate
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