Botanic Gardens set to stabilize Pepper Creek shoreline

April 23, 2020 by Chris Flood in the Cape Gazette

Brian Trader, Deputy Executive Director and Director of Horticulture, points to where a viewing platform will be off the Woodland Gardens trail. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTO

Looking to preserve its 12.5 acres of forested wetlands, Dagsboro-based Delaware Botanic Gardens has submitted an application to the state for a major shoreline stabilization project.

According to a public notice issued April 1 by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Wetlands and Subaqueous Lands Section, the project has four phases. As proposed, the work will include building a 318-foot-long anchored-branch toe designed to attenuate waves, thousands of plantings and installing tree wads, the roots of fallen trees, to restore plant communities. Read more…