Rain Garden Workshop
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On Saturday March 24th the RRSEP held a workshop on small-scale rain gardens for the home owner. Twenty-five Master Gardeners, garden club members, and others with interest in gardens, landscaping and conservation attended. The morning session consisted of presentations on the purpose of raingardens, how a rain garden functions, how to build a rain garden, native plants that are suitable for use in raingardens, and calculating the drainage area and size of a rain garden. After lunch the participants went outside and completed a raingarden on the County Office Building property. |
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| The raingarden was dug and filled with biofilter soil beforehand. | Kristel Riddervold spoke about the Greenleaf Park rain garden. |
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| Rain garden plants anxiously await their fate. | Greg Harper gives a pep talk before the work begins. |
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| Repp Glaettli (center) directed the planting. | Cooperative Extension's Peter Warren plants the first shrub. |
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| An elbow in the downspout sends roof runoff into the garden. | Cobbles line a channel carrying runoff into the garden. |
Click here for Page 2 of the Workshop.