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Rain Garden · Back yard

Stone farmhouse, back-yard rain garden

Behind an old stone farmhouse with a glass kitchen wing, the wet corner of the yard becomes a rain garden: a cobble swale running from the copper downspout into a planted basin of iris, daylilies, astilbe and ferns, crossed by a short boardwalk and stepping stones to a small slate platform with two timber seats.

YardRemake Studio

USDA Zone 4
Stone farmhouse, back-yard rain garden — the original photo
Stone farmhouse, back-yard 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 4. Every pin comes from our plant-identification pass, never placed by hand, and the pins on the close-ups also pass a second check on the spot they mark. The close-ups re-imagine what the main view doesn’t show, so a path, a step or a pot can differ.

The planting list

Named at the level the design was identified at; the species we stock link to their care pages.

Hydrangea
Hydrangea macrophylla
Daylily
Hemerocallis spp.
Siberian Iris
Siberian Iris
Iris sibirica
Zone 3-8
Care details
Astilbe
Astilbe spp.
Japanese Maple
Acer palmatum

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