Master Rain Gardener class Washtenaw county
Hello everyone! I'm new here!! Very excited to begin.
My sister (Vivienne T) and I are designing a rain garden because whenever it rains, the runoff from our greenhouse pools up on one of the sides of the greenhouse. It's just overall not good to have flooding next to the house, but it also makes it to where we can't really plant anything there because plants will and can get destroyed by the heavy downpour of water coming off the roof.
(please excuse the crap, we were cleaning our fish tank 😬)
Not sure exactly what the layout of the whole thing is gonna look like yet and what plants we're using. Definitely going to use some natives though. Might have to put fencing around it to prevent our chickens from digging in it (they love digging in water for worms lol!! Also, off subject but if you have questions about chickens I'll be happy to answer them lol!!)
Thanks for stopping by and reading my thread! 😊
- Sophia
Comments (6)
- 3 months agolast modified: 3 months ago
We have revised where our rain garden is going to be- instead of being directly below the greenhouse overhang, we decided we should put it in this general area:
The blue lines demonstrate the runoff which then trickles through an underground PVC pipe which then flows into the rain garden (still figuring out design- not sure if that's our final plan.)Our impervious surface measures 420 sq. ft., and to find out if we make the rain garden 15% or 30% the size of that, we'll have to see based off the permeability test. We just filled the hole with water once yesterday, and filled it again today- now it's just a waiting game! 😀
TY for reading!
- 2 months ago
Hey! So I'm on class 3 and I drew my plan out on graph paper.
Flower emoji = garden bed
Rain cloud emoji = 2 different rain garden ideas
House emoji = give a wild guess
Tree emoji = maple tree
And the weird circle in between the garden bed and the greenhouse is a post that we hang our garden hose on. So yeah.
Shaded part of square in lower right hand corner is the house, and the square around it is the overhang roof.
I'm honestly confusing myself LMAO.
Plants I think look cute and may want to put in our rain garden:
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Butterfly milkweed
Swamp rose mallow
Prairie dropseed
Blue flag iris
Fern that likes full sun
Blue-eyed grass
Brown-eyed susan
Button bush
Goal: colorful. No weedy-looking plants. Modern. Not shrubby. Stuff that helps the butterflies.
Thanks for reading although it's a little late in the game! - 2 months ago
- 2 months ago
- last month
Alrighty, so I made a little screencast abt my rain garden 😅 Totally unnecessary but worth it 👍
If you can't get to it, here's some pics.
These aren't our final plant decisions- as I say in the video, it depends on what we can find and the price of everything. But, for instance, if we are unable to find blue flag iris, I'm hoping to get something similar in color and height because my initial plan took those into consideration. Therefore, I am not able to replace a plant with something that looks completely different because it will throw off my whole design.👍🙂
Susan Bryan