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July 24, 2014

Botanical garden destroyed by flood rebuilt by students

  • After torrential floods at Clemson University washed away plants and obliterated trails and bridges, architecture students spent a year designing and building a new garden.

    • CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — After a nearly unprecedented flood destroyed the site, the South Carolina Botanical Garden is almost as good as new — because of the work of more than a dozen Clemson University architecture students.

    While garden staff worked to restore the thousands of plant species wiped out by the July 2013 flood, the students spent the past year designing and building trails, bridges and drainage plans for the garden on the edge of campus. They finished their work last week.


     
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