This website was originally developed by Charlotte Glen
Your yard can do more than just beautify your home – by adding a rain garden to your landscape, your yard can also serve as a first line of defense in protecting local water quality. Rain gardens are attractively landscaped shallow depressions designed to capture rainwater so it can soak into the ground, allowing plants and soil to remove nutrients and pollutants the way nature intended. Planting rain gardens with moisture tolerant native species that provide nectar and pollen for birds and pollinators will also increase your yard’s wildlife habitat value.
Review slides from the workshop:- Introduction
- Overview
- Site Selection and Design
- Plants for Rain Gardens (Charlotte Glen - Updated 3/23)
- Rain Gardens 101 Powerpoint presentation
- N.C. Cooperative Extension Rain Garden Manual
- Why Your Yard Might Need a Rain Garden article
- Clemson Extension Rain Garden Manual
N.C. Cooperative Extension’s Plants Database
Learn more about water quality and managing stormwater in your landscape:Learn more about soil testing.
Use Extension Search to find research based information from Cooperative Extension systems across the U.S.
Visit your local Cooperative Extension center to learn more about gardening and landscape care. Find your county Extension center
