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Use—don’t lose—the water that falls on your paved areas and roof.
Here are two plot plans, one for sun and one for shade, from
“Catch the Rain” in the 2009 All-Seasons Garden Guide.
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Use—don’t lose—the water that falls on your paved areas and roof.
Here are two plot plans, one for sun and one for shade, from
“Catch the Rain” in the 2009 All-Seasons Garden Guide.
To purchase
this issue, go to http://Shop.
Almanac.
com
A rain garden is a shallow, bowl-shape area that captures
runoff water during a heavy rain and allows it to soak into the
ground gradually.
Both of these plans are designed for a
12x24-foot space but are adaptable to smaller areas.
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–SongSparrowPerennials–GaryA.
Monroe@USDA-NRCSPLANTSDatabase
–JenniferAnderson@USDA-NRCSPLANTSDatabase
A Rain Garden for Sun
Plants set into a rain garden that gets full sun must be able to endure both
occasional flooding and dry spells.
(See the plant diagram on page 2.
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RAIN GARDENS
In the center, plant .
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Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia ‘Ruby Spice’), a woody shrub
that bears fragrant, pink, bottlebrush flowers in the summer.
5 to
6 feet tall;
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