Last week I joined dozens of other landscape industry professionals to learn how and why to construct a rain garden for homeowners or businesses.
Much of it was a review for me but to get into the details and actually build one was instrumental!
Why plant a rain garden?
With increasing urbanization, the soil doesn't get a chance to absorb rain water and return it to the water table. Today, so many surfaces are impervious so water runs off to places that aren't beneficial, such as streams, sewer drains. Along the way, the rain picks up pollutants, sediment and causes erosion to property and stream banks.
Some of the factors we learned: size in relation to roof size, location, managing soil types, how to construct, plant and maintain, suitable plants and other environmental factors.
From a shallow depression to a fully planted and mulched garden!
The plants we used for this bed were:
Carex crinita var. brevicrinis
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