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Rain garden ideas
A rain garden is a gently sunken basin that catches roof and driveway runoff and lets it soak in, planted with moisture-loving native sedges, rushes, iris and ferns, fringed with wet-meadow perennials and ringed with river rock. It is infrastructure that happens to be beautiful.
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How to get the look
- 1Site it at least ten feet from the house where the downspout water already runs, and dig a shallow basin.
- 2Plant the centre with species that take standing water for a day, and the rim with plants that like it damp.
- 3Ring it with river rock and cobble so the inflow does not erode the edge.
Up close
Three details from the same render.
Plants that build the look
From our library of real plants, each rated for the zones this style suits. Every card opens the plant's page with its zones, sun, water and sources.
Real before and afters
From the gallery, made with the same engine.
Your yard, this style
See your own home in the Rain Garden style
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