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Rain Gardens | |
| Date | 02/16/10 |
| Time | 7:30 p.m. |
| Location | 2050 Yulupa Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA |
| Description | Rain Gardens for On-Site Storm-Water Retention
We may think of Native Plant Gardens in the context of summer drought tolerance, yet 6” of rain one week last month was 6000 gallons running off a typical rooftop, overwhelming even the most fanatical rainwater harvester, to flow through our gardens carrying silt, toxics and nutrients into the nearest storm drain or creek. Rick Taylor will show us how this seasonal overabundance of water can be managed with attractive garden designs that will capture storm water and let it percolate into the ground. This helps reduce the volume of storm water entering storm sewers and streams and also acts as a water quality filter, by channeling the water via swales and filtering it through plants before it seeps back into the earth. Rain Gardens, back yard versions of engineered bio-retention areas designed to meet storm water regulations, are basically shallow depressions filled with a permeable sandy or sandy loam soil, planted with native grasses, shrubs and perennials that tolerate variable wet-dry conditions. Rick teaches in the Sustainable Landscape Professional Certificate program at Sonoma State, and owns Elder Creek Landscaping in Sebastopol, offering ecologically-minded whole-systems design services. |
| Organization | Milo Baker Chapter CNPS |
| cnpsmb@gmail.com | |
| Phone | 707-322-6722 |
| Website | http://www.cnpsmb.org |
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