The Ohio Environmental Council’s

Green Gala 2025

I had the great pleasure of creating living center pieces for the Ohio Environmental Council’s Green Gala held at the Columbus Zoo’s African Events Center. Each of my designs included live native plants found at Scioto Gardens in Delaware, OH. With over fifty plants in total, the arrangements for this event were more environmentally sustainable than any I have done yet, as they will be replanted in their native environment. Hopefully the plants will live on for many years to come.

Below are each of the plants included with links to Scioto Garden’s website were more growing information can be found.

  • Eastern Wood Fern

    Tough, resilient and evergreen

  • Cup Plant

    Good rain garden plant

  • Early Meadow Rue

    Beautiful delicate foliage

  • Appalachian Sedge

    Great groundcover

  • Fire Pink Silene

    Great for hummingbirds

  • Pale Purple Echinacea

    Herbal medicinal

  • Sensitive Fern

    Woody and beaded fronds

  • Royal Fern

    Regal sun loving fern

  • Slender Mountain Mint

    Prarie wildflower

  • Yellow Wild Indigo

    Ornamental seed pods