Natural Solutions for Yard Flooding

Does all this rain cause a spot in your yard to flood? 

Well, why not create a rain garden? 

Besides for the obvious beauty it will add to your landscape, lots of plants  like to “get their feet wet."  Plants will help filter the rain water runoff, too, and help make our water system cleaner.

Try these perennials: 

• Astilbe
• Joe Pye Weed
• Bleeding Heart
• Siberian Iris
• Daylilly
• Most Ferns  

In fact, there are also some trees and shrubs that like wet areas. By planting a tree and/or a shrub or two, you can help eliminate some of your rain runoff problems since the roots of plants will help soak up the extra rain. 

Try these native trees: 

• River Birch
• Swamp White Oak
• Red Maple
• Honey Locust
• Ohio Buckeye
• Redbud

Try these shrubs: 

• Buttonbush
• Summersweet
• Red-osier or Gray Dogwood
• Vernal Witchhazel
• Winterberry
• Virginia Sweetspire 

A landscape designer that specializes in native plants can provide you with a landscape plan for a beautiful low-maintenance  rain garden.   Turn that sore spot in your hard into a vision of beauty! 

Happy Gardening!