Rain Gardens
Why should I plant a rain garden?
Once your rain garden has taken root, you’ll feel good knowing that your property is part of the solution, and no longer part of the problem. The benefits are as good for your pocketbook as they are for the environment!
How can I learn to plant one?
Learn with us during our rain garden design workshops and our hands-on community work days, where we go through the ABCs of soil preparation, planting, and maintenance of rain gardens. Sue Ellingson has a very good web site (Sue’s Rules for Rain Gardens) that includes a wonderful plant list. Edgewood College also has a website dedicated to the topic.
I want to see one. Where can I go to look at a rain garden?
- Edgewood College (east side of the Edgedome, capturing water from the Campus School parking loop)
- 614 Piper Drive
- 1922 Vilas Ave
- UW Arboretum Visitor’s Center
- Spring Harbor Environmental Magnet Middle School
What is FOLW doing to promote rain gardens?
FOLW and partners have proposed to build a rain garden street demonstration project in the Vilas Neighborhood. A rain garden street is street that has extensive infiltration gardens alongside, primarily in the terrace, but also extending into the street in places.