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Rain Garden Plan

Denise Coykendall

10 years ago

Rain garden will be 8' x 4' & 10' from house basement with patio on the west side of garden. Plants used are pollinator, butterfly, & hummingbird attractors, which will benefit the fruit trees planted behind the garden & the vegetable garden which is approx 20' away

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Susan Bryan
10 years ago
Looking good Denise! This looks fine. Sorry you had some technical issues. I see this plan perfectly! Is your garden in shade, or sun, or part? The Cardinal Flower and Great blue Lobelia and Fox Sedge will all love the shade. And then it looks like it gets sunnier the farther you get from the patio? That seems reasonable. And I like how the plants are tall enough as you go away from the patio, so you will see them as you are sitting there - having a nice cup of lemonade!
Denise Coykendall
Original Author
10 years ago
My rain garden is in dappled sun/shade depending on the time of day & the part of the season we're in
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Susan Bryan
10 years ago
Sounds good. I like how in the middle you have a "spine" of the Blue Flag Iris. That will make an nice organizing principal for the garden. Looks good!

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