July Rain Garden Update

What can we say about June except rain, rain, and more rain? We can only imagine what our office’s basement would have looked like if it were not for the rain garden and the berm that help siphon water away from our building. The rain garden proved its ability to handle large amounts of precipitation without sending it flooding into the street in one big gulp. We are now looking at aerating the soil in back of our building in another effort to enrich and manage our small habitat. Newly blooming in the rain garden—and also in our prairie garden—are gorgeous red beebalm, brown-eyed Susan, purple coneflowers, and cup plant. We also transplanted little bluestem and prairie dropseed from our home gardens.