Rain Garden
Plant
a shallow depression or swale with native wetland or moist prairie plants
that can accept periods of inundation:Blue Lobelia, Wild Bergamot, Culver's
Root and Swamp Milkweed, for example.
Your Rain Garden can absorb 30 percent more water than a comparable-sized parcel of turf and allow the water to slowly filter into the ground rather than run off into storm drains. A rule-of-thumb is to plan the square footage of your rain garden equal to about 30 percent of the square footage of your roof.
Planting Key
| 1: | Virginia Wild Rye (Elymus virginicus) |
| 2: | Prairie Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachya) |
| 3: | Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) |
| 4: | Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) |
| 5: | Meadow Phlox (Phlox maculate) |
| 6: | Culver's Root (Veronicastrum virginicum) |
| 7: | Prairie Cord Grass (Spartina pectinata) |
| 8: | Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) |
| 9: | Marsh Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) |
| 10: | Golden Alexander (Zizia aptera) |
