African Savanna

African Savanna

This colored sketch from page 12 of the Louisville Zoo Botanical Master Plan shows distant trees and a zebra behind a grassy area. Birds and colorful flowers are in the foreground. “As illustrated above, the African savanna will include collections of more onamental grasses in key locations to demonstrate the wide diversity in color, size and texture: glossy red ribbons of blood grass, the large fountain-like foliage of miscanthus and the cool glaucous tints of blue oat grass. Hybrid garden lilies will recall the exotic beauty of the African glory lily, while black-eyed Susan and yarrow provide dry summer blooms. The picturesque character of cockspur hawthron and native honey locust will re-create the distinctive silhouette of African trees, while broadleaf evergreen shrubs such as holly, pyracantha and winter honeysuckle represent the vegetation found among the kopje rock formations along the edges of the plains.”

James H. Bassett and Laura Aumann Kukelhan

Bassett Associates files

James H. Bassett

1992

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