How to Build a Native Plant Rain Garden - A Step-by-Step Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- On rainy days in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, any water that falls on roads or rooftops or other impervious surfaces doesn't have the chance to soak into the ground. Instead, it becomes runoff that carries pollutants and sediment into storm drains and then on to creeks. These pulses of fast-moving storm water then erode the banks of those creeks, sending sediment and pollutants downstream and ultimately toward the Chesapeake Bay. At Nature Forward's Woodend Nature Sanctuary in Chevy Chase, Maryland, we're installing rain gardens and conservation landscaping to slow down, spread out and soak in stormwater before it leaves the property.
In this video, we will walk you through the process of constructing a simple rain garden and also show you an example of a conservation landscape. Ready to begin? Let's go!
With Alice Sturm and Gabriela Paola Franco Pena of Nature Forward:
natureforward.org/
natureforward.org/program/nat...
And featuring Eric Ettenhofer and Brad Klinedinst of Lerch Brothers Landscape Contractors:
www.lerchbrothers.com/
Funding provided by the Chesapeake Bay Trust and the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection through the Montgomery County Water Quality Protection Fund.
00:00 General Introduction
00:55 Impervious surfaces, runoff, and role of rain gardens
1:50 Picking a rain garden location at the Woodend Sanctuary
2:29 Infiltration and using a percolation test for assessment
5:21 Design of the rain garden
6:41 Installation process begins
7:12 Excavation, placement of rocks, landscape fabric, and compost
8:53 Planting, including the benefits of native plants for rain gardens
12:21 Curb Cut installation
13:44 Winter turns to spring at the Woodend Sanctuary
14:20 Spring arrives and rain garden is put on-line
14:54 One last step
15:32 First rainy day
15:58 Conclusion
16:56 Comparison of design on paper with the built rain garden
Some sources when shopping for Native Plants :
In addition to looking at nurseries local to you, here are some others that often stock native plants.
Order Online:
Izel Native Plants www.izelplants.com
Bona Terra bonaterradc.com/
In Person:
Lauren’s Garden Service www.laurensgardenservice.com/
Go Native Tree Farm www.gonativetrees.com/ordering/
Chesapeake Natives chesapeakenatives.org/
Earth Sangha www.earthsangha.org/
Herring Run Nursery bluewaterbaltimore.org/herrin...
Nature by Design www.nature-by-design.com/
Hill House Native Plants hillhousenativeplants.com/plan... Watermark Woods watermarkwoods.com Schott Nursery www.schottnurseries.com/
Good luck, and please tell us about your native plant rain garden!
I LOVED this video! Very interesting, informative and has me very excited to do a rain garden!!!
Thank you! So happy to hear that the video is useful for you!
Great video. I learned some important concepts that I’ll be incorporating into my in-progress rain garden. How reassuring to know runoff into Rock Creek is being reduced by this rain garden. (Aren’t you cutting into the curb? Why is it called a curve cut?)
Smart garden for sure 👍👍🌱🌱
Thank you. Well done.
Fantastic tutorial, thank you!!
Great to hear, thank you!
Great video! I learned so much!
We appreciate you letting us know, thank you!
Important topic and every yard should have a rain garden for the wildlife and for the bays and estuaries. You lost me with the landscape fabric, though. That stuff just ends up as trash and prevents air from getting into the soil.
Thank you for watching! A rain garden in every yard sounds great to us and would make a world of difference.
I'm with you on that. I don't think they shouldn't avoid plants in the stones they would help slow the water even more and provide partial watering zones for even more diversity. I do understand that part of their thing was making it look nice.
Isn’t it organic compostable matter and so ends up incorporated into the soil? You’re referring to that white material that looks like it could be coconut husk-type matter, yes?
@@JillofAllTrades2 I've seen people pull it up intact years later. It 100% stifles soil biology.