Rain Garden Introduction ☔️🌊❄️ What are they and Why do you need one?

Rain gardens - good for wildlife, good for your pocketbook and good for the environment - build one today.

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Rain Garden Introduction ☔️🌊❄️ What are they and Why do you need one?
rain gardens retain rain and snow melt in your property and prevents it from running to the street and storm drainage systems. Less watering, less cost and good for the environment.

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[debbiedowner]

I live in south Louisiana. My entire yard is a rain garden. We got 7” this week. 😂

[JimService]

I built (well dug) one last summer. Guelph reimbursed me for the materials and plants through Reep Green Solutions. The only problem was finding somewhere to put the roughly three cubic yards of clay with rocks that I replaced with a 60:40 mixture of sand and compost. The garden is looking great this year.

[hagenmaikel]

Municipalities and local governments in the Netherlands have been installing similar structures in the landscape as part of public infrastructure for a number of years. Those are called wadi’s here and serve the same purpose. Your examples look somewhat similar to what I’ve seen in our neighborhood. However they are not engineered as true gardens, but rather as slow infiltration systems covered with regular turf grass. I don’t think I have ever seen any sort of promotion here for people to integrate a system like this in their backyards, except for encouraging people to take out pavers and planting up their gardens instead. Looking forward to your next video’s on this subject, it’s a great initiative and fun way to try out something new in your garden space 🪴

[tmh]

I like the idea. Looking forward for new video

[ourlifeedited]

Our house came with a large rain garden in the center of the backyard (approx 30 feet long and 15 feet wide). I’m considering lining it to make it a more year-round pond. Any overflow over the lining will remain in the current rain garden. Curious to know your thoughts on this. Thanks!

[joansmith]

How many rain gardens have you built? Do you have any real experience with them?