Re: Rain garden

Cathy,
Our garden club established a garden club at our local Elementary School and we recently planted a rain garden with the kids. We now have a precipitation deficit of 6 to 7 inches and I think we'll have to water our rain garden along with the other plantings. Sounds crazy, doesn't it?
On a recent bike trip I saw that rain from a thunderstorm had stopped about a mile from our house, infuriating.
Godi zone 7
Mt. Vernon, VA


----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:28 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Rain garden


Spent 3 hrs today planting wetland plants to create a rain garden at
our local community college. Plants were supplied by the state - soil
and water conservation folks, I think. My concern was the follow up
care. So many people think that plants can simply be plunked into the
ground and they will grow. Even natives in a fairly congenial
environment need a little TLC until they get established!


Cathy, west central IL, z5b

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