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| UNCA Rain garden (with Umbrella leaf magnolia) |
I've been thinking about rain garden projects lately. We'd like to be able to demonstrate a rain garden (along with our rain barrel and cistern) adjacent to the education building (at the botanical garden where I work).
We've definitely had water challenges over the years in this space. The metal "Butler" building that comprises our education center (adults above and Nature Center below) initially had no gutters, leading to moisture issues on the ground level.
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| River birch and cinnamon fern (UNCA) |
When I first started at the Garden, the volunteers and I were faced with periodically flooded conditions in what was the 'work' area at the time. Not pleasant at all.
So now we've diverted the roof water to a very large cistern on one side, and a rain water/landscape drain on another side, and we have a final open gutter downspout to divert to a rain garden, hopefully, that we'll install in the fall.
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| another view of the UNCA rain garden plantings |
Enjoy the images of UNCA rain gardens for inspiration!
