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Rain Garden · Front yard

Ann Arbor contemporary, rain garden

A rain garden where the downspout drains, beside a contemporary house in Ann Arbor: a river birch, red twig dogwood and winterberry holly over cardinal flower, Siberian iris and Japanese sedge around a river-rock channel.

YardRemake Studio

USDA Zone 6Starter set · Rain garden
Ann Arbor contemporary, rain garden — the original photo
Ann Arbor contemporary, rain garden — the finished design

Showing the finished design

How this design was made

The before is an AI-generated stand-in, not a customer’s yard. The after is our engine’s unedited Rain Garden design for zone 6, locked to the plants of one starter set and laid out with the studio’s planting plan, and the planting list keeps only the set’s plants we confirmed in the picture. Every pin comes from our plant-identification pass, never placed by hand, and passes a second, independent check. The close-ups re-imagine what the main view doesn’t show, so a path, a step or a pot can differ. Planted from the “Rain garden” starter set — a researched assortment from our own plant library.

The planting list

Planted from the “Rain garden” starter set — layered canopy, mid-layer and groundcover.

River Birch
River Birch
Betula nigra
Zone 4-9
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Red Twig Dogwood
Red Twig Dogwood
Cornus sericea
Zone 3-7
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Winterberry Holly
Winterberry Holly
Ilex verticillata
Zone 3-9
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Cardinal Flower
Cardinal Flower
Lobelia cardinalis
Zone 3-9
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Japanese Sedge
Japanese Sedge
Carex morrowii
Zone 5-9
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Siberian Iris
Siberian Iris
Iris sibirica
Zone 3-8
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