The SASAKI Pollinator Garden
The Sasaki Pollinator Garden was a collaboration between the Landscape Architects and Ecologists at Sasaki. The existing planting beds on the Chase Mills Campus were planted in 2012, but the plants unfortunately did not last. As a part of the Sustainability and Urban Agriculture Initiatives within the office, a new planting design was created. A small team of 4 Sasaki employees designed the new pollinator garden and presented the concepts to the firm’s Executive Committee. Gaining their approval for this exciting new amenity, the pollinator garden was set in motion to be installed. The implementation requires 3 phases of planting; phases 1 and 2 were completed in the autumn of 2016 and the phase 3 was completed in the spring of 2017. After installation is complete, the garden will be registered as a Pollinator Garden in the United States through the Pollinator Partnership. It will join thousands of other gardens throughout Massachusetts and the US as part of the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge - a campaign to register a million public and private gardens and landscapes to support pollinators.
Completed while Senior Landscape Designer at SASAKI
Location: SASAKI, Watertown, Massachusetts
Date: 2014 - 2016
Project Type: Planting Design, Pollinator Garden, Habitat Restoration
Client: SASAKI
Owner: SASAKI
Team: Matt Langan, Brian Chilcott, Matthew Macchietto