- Public Involvement & Education
- Storm Water Program
- Watershed Programs
- Conservation Easements
- Soil Fertility Analysis
RAIN GARDEN
PLANT KIT SALE
What is a
Rain Garden?
A rain garden is an attractive,
landscaped area planted with perennial native plants which don't
mind getting wet feet. They are beautiful gardens, built in
depressions, which are designed to capture and filter storm water
runoff from impervious surfaces around the home, such as rooftops
and driveways.
Often times, people go to nurseries to look for native plants to put
in their rain gardens and have a difficult time locating the plants
suggested on the rain garden plant list (located in the back of the
rain garden manual).
The Cuyahoga SWCD is making it as
easy as possible to plant a rain garden by providing an opportunity
to purchase rain garden plant kits.
Rain
Garden Plant Kits
Cuyahoga SWCD is offering three garden plant kits:
-
Rain Garden (Sun)
-
Rain Garden (Shade)
-
Butterfly/Hummingbird Garden (not considered a rain garden)
Each kit contains 38 native plants of 10-12 species and is enough to
cover approximately 100 square feet. Plants are grown by Ohio
Prairie Nursery, a local grower/distributor of plants native to the
Great Lakes eco-region.
How to order:
Orders can be placed thru Cuyahoga SWCD and the plants will be drop
shipped directly to your house anytime throughout the growing
season, May 20th - Sept. 30, 2011. Please allow three weeks
between order and delivery). Call Amy Roskilly at 216/524-6580, ext.
22 for more information. Click on the forms below to get the list of
plants included in each kit and the order form.
Click
here for the
Ohio Prairie Nursery Garden Kit Product Sheet
Click here
for an order form.
Click here to see a virtual rain garden
(courtesy of University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
