Let It Rain Garden - This picture is of a one of our Let It Rain Gardens three months after installation.

Our Let It Rain Garden is composed of all native floodplain species that can tolerate a wide range of soil moistures. Rain garden soil moistures can vary widely from soaked or submerged during wet periods to very dry in the summer or in drought conditions. These native floodplain species have adapted to these conditions over thousands of year and once established perform superbly in rain gardens. Garden packages are available for pickup at the nursery or can be shipped. Shipments are made only on Mondays and Tuesdays to minimize the chance of them spending the weekend in a hot truck or warehouse.

The 32 plug flats are composed of a selection of the following species;

Grasses & Sedges

Andropogon geradii - Big Bluestem
Carex spp. - Sedges
Panicum virgatum - Switch Grass
Spartina pectinata - Prairie Cord Grass

Forbs (Wildflowers)

Aquilegia canadensis - Columbine
Asclepias incarnata - Marsh or Rose Milkweed
Aster novai-angliae - New England Aster
Chelone glabra - White turtlehead
Echinacea purpurea - Purple Coneflower
Eupatorium coelestinum - Blue Mistflower
Eupatorium fistulosum - Hollow Joe-Pye
Eupatorium maculatum - Spotted Joy-Pye
Eupatorium perfoliatum - Common Boneset
Eupatorium purpureum - Sweet Joe-Pye
Eupatorium rugosum - White Snakeroot
Iris versicolor - Wild Iris (Blue Flag)
Liatris pycnostachya - Prairie Blazing Star
Lobelia cardinalis - Cardinal Flower
Lobelia siphilitica - Great Blue Lobelia
Monarda fistulosa - Wild Bergamot
Physostegia virginiana - obedient plant
Rudbeckia triloba - Branching Coneflower
Silphium perfoliatum - Cup Plant
Silphium terebinthinaceum - Prairie Dock
Solidago ohioensis - Ohio Goldenrod
Vernonia noveboracensis - Common ironweed
Veronicastrum virginicum - Culver’s Root