🌧️💧 On Monday, Tewks Town councillors & staff volunteered with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust to build a Rain Garden at Gloucester Road car park - capturing rainwater 🌱, reducing flood risk 🚨, and giving local wildlife a helping hand 🐝🦋.
#Tewkesbury #RainGarden #ClimateAction #WaterManagement
Rain gardens are having a moment and honestly? About time. Your yard can be beautiful AND save you money. Drop a 💧 if you want one.
#RainGarden #HomeGlow #LawnTransformation
Completely forgot to share our audioguide here! D’oh!
We’ve a collection of short videos highlighting different aspects of our village.
Here is The Battle of #Geashill March, performed in the Geashill #Raingarden & Wetland Park in May 2024.
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Rain gardens act as nature's kidneys, filtering out urban toxins before they reach our precious local watersheds. Find your property’s potential for a garden with a custom Rainplan.
#RainGarden #CleanWater #UrbanEcology
Douglas Spiraea is a fantastic wetland native, and thrives in moist environments. It has no problem with wet feet, but also does very, very well in areas that are bone dry in the summer without irrigation! It has a reputation as an aggressive thug, but its spread can be controlled by limiting it's access to summer water. As an added bonus - it's a big hit with Bumblebees!
This is a section of our pasture that in previous years turned into a small stream every Winter flowing towards the back of our property where it joined a little stream and added a little more erosion along the way. Over the last two years I've been turning this area into a rain garden. Now there are Western Crabapple, multiple Scouler's Willows, Red Twig Dogwoods, Douglas Spiraea, Red Elderberry, Snowberry, California Hazelnut, and Black Hawthorn, and several Shore Pines. The rain water no longer flows like a stream and only pools for a few hours before soaking into the ground! Our current atmospheric river has shown me a few areas adjacent to this planting that I need to expand the rain garden into!
While Seablush might not absorb or aid in draining the excess water the way shrubs do, they do thrive in areas with slow Winter drainage! And, as an added bonus this beauty will show you it's appreciation for the extra wet by giving you a self-sown flower show the following year!
And, in the Pacific Northwest we can't talk about water loving natives without mentioning the always gorgeous Camas! These bulbs thrive in the Winter wet and bone dry Summers our region is known for!
One of the benefits to all of the standing water from the endless rain is having a visual indicator for where water loving native species will thrive! Many of our wetland plants are actually quite summer drought tolerant, and will help drain the Winter problem areas!
#nativeplants #raingarden #pnw
A 54.8m² #raingarden featuring 2 planters, stepping logs, a balance beam, and bug hotels! 🐝Delivered with @merton_council, it slows runoff, supports pollinators, and teaches the community how SuDS work, making the street greener, more engaging, and welcoming.
Rain gardens prevent thousands of gallons of polluted runoff every year. One change scales into real citywide impact.
#RainGarden #WaterQuality #ClimateAction #Stormwater
This is such a brilliant idea for that space between the sidewalk and the street. I saw several of these when I walked around Portland on my last visit and they look great. #rainwatercapture #raingarden #rainwatercollecrion youtu.be/ar7IRr4YwpE?...
What can you do when you can’t dig deep enough for a #raingarden? 💧
In cities packed with utilities and hard surfacing, traditional #SuDS can be hard to install. Here’s how we solved that challenge 👇
#FloodResilience #UrbanDesign #GreenInfrastructure
A 1400 sq. ft. native garden near the Mount Pleasant Civic Campus. I'm curious what it looks like in summer. I'll have to try to remember to check it out next year.
#nativeplants #nativegarden #raingarden
Gold medal winning, flood-resilient RHS Malvern Spring Festival Rain Garden has been permanently relocated to Coppermill Primary School in Walthamstow, London....read more on thedirt.news #ClimateChange #FloodRe #gardens #Raingarden #RHSMalvernSpringFestival
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The front yard on our little Burlington #RainGarden/ #NativePlanting landscape.
The backyard on our little Burlington #RainGarden/ #NativePlanting landscape.
Lovely #raingarden walking tour yesterday! Any excuse to use my organizer yodel is a good one 🎶 #greeninfrastructure #seeingisbelieving #stormwater #biodiversity #urbanecology
Wonderful #raingarden walking tour yesterday. Thanks to our colleagues from City of Vancouver for sharing their work on #greeninfrastructure and #corridors, and to @thuringch.bsky.social for her good organizing. See you at our next tour on Oct. 21 🌿🌻🌞 grinbc.org/tours
Our #raingarden walking tour on Sept. 16 will conclude at this gem at Woodland & 2nd (East Vancouver), which was the model for the St. Georges' Rainway. Join us: grinbc.org/tours #greeninfrastructure #climateresilience #biodiversity
🌿 Bothwell Landscape Studio
🏗️ Miovic Reinhardt / MRA
#kirkland #washington #customhome #customhouse #dreamhouse #washingtonarchitect #pugetsound #kirklandrealestate #lakewashington #seattlearchitect #raingarden #neighborhood #sustainablegarden #gardens #firtree #savethetrees #treecanopy
A pink swamp rose mallow flower in a rain garden with a rock wall and wood stacked in the background
Hibiscus moscheutos in the rain garden #nativeplants #raingarden #flowers #bloomscrolling
An amazing #RainGarden on Plains Road at Howard Street in Burlington
Back garden with green lawn, dark red nicotiana in pots, other plants in pots and green border plants. The patio is shining with water.
Show me a photo of your garden in the rain. #RainGarden
“The funding we have secured for #walking and #cycling, in the main, is used to create new routes that #connect communities, enabling people to travel in a more #sustainable way."
💚Well good
#RainGarden #urban
One of the beneficial side effects of digging a berm to create a wetland is that we have oodles of frogs! This past week I spied this tiny jewel on a Mistflower leaf:
I’ve seen 2.5 inch green tree frogs like this, but this is def a young’un at 1/2 inch long.
#Habitatgarden #raingarden #nature
🌧️A new #RainGarden has been installed at Watton Junior School, delivered by #NorfolkRiversIDB on behalf of #ReclaimTheRain & #NorfolkCC
Drains catch surface water from the playground, guiding it into a planted pond filled with special filter materials that soak the water into the ground🌿🐝
A long, narrow flower spike with tiny five petaled purple flowers and several unopened purple buds
Hoary Skullcap isn’t overly showy, but it’s resilient. This little gal has persisted in hot, dry, crowded conditions among the daylilies, and keeps coming back a little bigger each year. 🌱
#gardensky #nativeplants #nativeflowers #gardensolutions #medicinalherbs #raingarden
Look at the mess that was a succulent garden.
My husband did most of the work, but we cleared out a problem area on our patio/rain garden. It looks a whole lot better and now I can stop hating myself for a failed succulent garden that turned to weeds.
#landscaping #garden #gardening #raingarden #pnw
Chickens in the rain garden, couldn't be happier these little shits are living it up here. Its fun seeing them enjoy this garden as much, if not more, than I do. They are doing a great job of eating the clover, a mistake I made being fixed. ❤️
#chicken #chickens #urbanfarm #homestead #raingarden
I’d love for @toronto.ca to arrange for residents’ education & support for a #RainGarden initiative!
#Flooding #ClimateMitigation
#FloralFriday #NativePlants #PollinatorFriendly #FilipendulaRubra #GardenInspiration #WildflowerLove #RainGarden #EcoFriendlyGarden #PlantOfTheWeek #NatureBeauty #GoodNeighborIowa
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) beginning to flower. A Joepye (Eutrochium maculatum) grows buds in the background.
Close up of Joepye flower buds. Hand in the photo shows scale.
Large Cardinal flower with a hand to show scale
Cardinal Flower ( #Lobeliacardinalis) is blooming. This native grows tall in a rain garden/french drain that helps mitigate water damage to the shed. Beautiful & supports the ecosystem! Joepye ( #eutrochiummaculatum) close behind #cardinalflower #nativeplant #nativeplantsofnorthamerica #raingarden
Rain garden with blue flag irises and a several other native plants and sedges. I've forgotten what's what. I'm sure I'll find out when the short ones bloom.
Work-in-progress rain garden in the yard. This year I had Blue Flag Irises blooming so clearly they're appreciating the spot. #washtenaw #raingarden #nativeplants
