Tips for Planning and Installing a Rain Garden
Before beginning your project, consider the following:
▪ Nothing beats firsthand experience, which can be acquired by participating in a hands-on rain garden
workshop, or by volunteering with a community or...
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Tips for Planning and Installing a Rain Garden
Before beginning your project, consider the following:
▪ Nothing beats firsthand experience, which can be acquired by participating in a hands-on rain garden
workshop, or by volunteering with a community or school rain garden installation project.
Instructional
videos are also helpful, and rain garden and rain barrel installation videos are featured on the Video Gallery
page at www.
RainScaping.
org.
▪ When designing your rain garden, consider keeping it simple.
While rain gardens can have several
species of plants, they can also have bold impact with just three or four plant species.
If you decide to use
several herbaceous flowering perennials and grasses, moist meadows (unlike formal planting arrangements) allow more freedom with plant selection and maintenance (less concern about plants migrating
to where they weren t originally planted).
▪ When creating the rain garden design, place trees first, shrubs second, then place perennial
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