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From YouTube: Rainwater Gardens - Metro Blooms (Home Fair 2012)
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The City of Bloomington and the Housing and Redevelopment Authority hosted the 10th Home Improvement Fair on Saturday, February 25, 2012. Fairgoers attended how-to seminars, visited with home improvement exhibitors, asked questions and got ideas for upcoming remodeling projects.
A
So
how
everyone,
thanks
for
being
patient,
my
name
is
Brian
pan
network
for
Metro
blooms.
We
are
non-profit
organization
dedicated
to
promoting
and
celebrating
garden
beautifying
current
communities
and
helping
to
heal
and
protect
our
environment,
namely
what
that
means
is
we
like
to
install
a
lot
of
rain
guards?
A
So
what
I'm
going
to
talk
about
is
a
rain
gardens,
but
first
we're
going
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
water
quality.
Why
rain
gardens
design
we're
going
to
talk
about
how
to
cite
your
rain
garden,
how
to
size
it
where
to
place
it
and
then
I'm
going
to
talk
about
how
to
build
the
rain
garden?
Real
briefly,
and
and
really
things
to
consider
as
far
as
troubleshooting
goes
and
then
also
get
some
demonstrations
about
projects
that
are
in
the
ground
now
and
kind
of
the
benefits
and
why
we
chose
to
select
them.
A
Where
can
I
give
you
guys
a
breadth
of
you
know
where
you
can
put
these
because
really
is
limited
by
your
creativity,
essentially,
so
so
why
rain
gardens?
Well,
they
do
help
protect
in
protect
our
lakes,
rivers
and
streams
and
I'll
show
you
later
the
protector
oceans
as
well,
and
so
going
back
to
our
fifth
grade
science
class.
A
You
know
we
have
learned
that
seventy
percent
of
the
earth
is
water,
but
the
big
deal
is
three
percent
of
that
is
fresh
water
and
ninety
percent
of
that
three
percent
is
locked
up
in
glaciers,
ice
caps
and
ground
aquifers.
So
a
lot
of
this
really
isn't
available
for
our
own
consumption.
You
can
see
that
seven
thousandth
of
a
percent
is
available
for
drinking
and
domestic
use,
and
so
we
really
rely
on
the
actual
rainfall
that
comes
down
to
supply
our
drinking
water
supply
and
so
you'll
see
through
this
water
cycle.
A
A
And
so
when
you
look
at
our
land
development
practices
and
look
at
you
know
if
we
have
nothing
built
on
our
land.
Ten
percent
of
that
rainfall
is
usually
run
off,
but
we
get
twenty-five
percent
in
shallow
infiltration,
where
it
soaks
into
the
ground
at
a
shallow
level,
but
we
get
twenty-five
percent
more.
That
goes
really
deep
into
our
aquifers
and
it's
a
really
slow
process
to
get
to
that
point.
A
But
as
soon
as
you
start
adding
houses,
we
start
adding
more
and
more
houses
in
neighborhoods
and
we
start
increasing
the
density
to
downtown's
and
you
know
dense
urban
cores.
We
we
lose
a
lot
of
that
infiltration
that
you
see
down
here.
We
only
get
ten
percent
shallow
five
percent
deep
and
a
lot
more
that
has
actually
shed
as
runoff
over
these
harder
surfaces
that
we've
managed
to
compact
or
create
as
asphalt
or
rooftops.
A
A
You
know
it's
all
about
economics
when
we
build
these
things,
but
you
know
there's
a
drawback
to
this
approach
where,
when
we
bring
these
through
they
you
know
they
can
pack
the
heck
out
of
the
soil,
and
the
soil
can
no
longer
soak
up
any
of
this
water
that
falls
on
the
land
and
what
we
do
then,
is
put
over
this.
You
know
these
cute
little
carpets
of
you
know
turf
grass
and
then
that
acts
as
green
concrete
essentially
and
it
all
sheds
off
of
there
and
so
conventional
site
design.
A
When
you,
you
know
you
get
your
home
on
this
nice
new
subdivision
is
it'll,
hit
the
roof
hit
your
gutter
go
down
and
we'll
shoot
it
up
to
the
street
as
quick
as
possible
and
will
never
think
about
it
again.
But
really
what
I'm
here
to
do
is
help
us
think
about
that
again,
and
so
just
give
us
the
scale.
A
The
numbers
of
the
runoff
here,
but
you
know,
say
a
typical
1500
square
foot
house
with
the
patio
during
a
one
inch
rainfall
which
is
a
pretty
common
rainfall
about
ninety
percent
of
our
rains
or
a
one
inch
rain
event.
You
get
925
gallons
of
runoff.
Just
off
your
house.
Add
another
617
from
your
driveway.
A
Add
another
3880
from
your
you
know.
Let
me
explain
green
concrete
the
theory
behind
this
or
another
theory,
but
you
know
our
idea
behind
this.
Is
that,
essentially,
you
can
soak
up,
maybe
the
first
eighth
of
an
inch
of
rain
in
your
turf
grass
and
then
the
rest
of
that
once
your
grass
gets
saturated
there's
nowhere
else
for
that
water
to
go
so
that's
going
to
run
right
off,
and
so,
if
your
soil
isn't
very
poorest,
underneath
that
it's
going
to
it's
going
to
fill
up
even
quicker
and
want
to
run
off
quicker.
A
So
you
get
a
lot
of
runoff
off
just
this
grass
area.
This
is
excluding
gardens
or
anything
like
that.
So,
but
really,
when
you
look
at
that,
it's
fifty
four
hundred
gallons
of
water,
just
in
a
one
inch
rain
event
that
are
running
off
your
property
and
when
you
look
at
30
inches
of
rain
a
year
like
we'd,
normally
get
in
this
area
Minnesota
we
have
170
thousand
gallons
of
water
there
and
when
the
American
household
used
127,
you
know
in
theory,
we
have
all
the
water.
A
A
A
That
seems
to
be
a
problem
in
our
lakes,
but
with
this
runoff,
here's
all
the
sediment
right
after
a
snow
melt
when
you
sand
the
Lots
and
gunk,
which
is
a
technical
term
which
is
essentially
you
know,
salt,
organic
matter,
oil,
heavy
metals-
and
you
know
cigarette
butts
trash.
Really
anything
can
collect
in
this
and
get
down
to
our
storm
drains.
A
And
then
there
we
never
see
it
again
unless
you're
hiking
down
by
the
river
bottoms-
and
you
see
these
out-
Falls
like
this
or
this,
and
with
all
that
this
water
will
wash
out
and
create
trigger
out
algae
blooms
and
so
increase.
The
amounts
of
runoff
with
laden
with
these
sediments
in
nutrients
will
help
foster
algae
blooms,
and
so
it's
not
necessarily
the
algae.
A
Bloom
is
the
biggest
issue,
but
it's
when
the
LG
dies
and
that's
what
creates
the
issue
because
there's
a
lot
of
oxygen
consumed
in
that
process,
and
so
then,
once
all
the
oxygen
is
sucked
out
of
the
water.
That
means
fish
and
other
things
cannot
live
in
that
water
as
as
easily
and
so
and
what
we
get
is
eutrophication.
It
creates
Agra
traffic
Lakes
a
lot
of
times
really
shallow
lakes
are
really
susceptible
to
this
really
deep
lakes.
A
A
I
was
an
insane
process,
but
it
was
a
really
great
process
in
a
community
being
processed
but
really
what
they
had
here.
This
is
a
hundred
years
of
just
street
untreated
street
runoff,
and
this
is
what
happens:
is
just
trash,
giant,
algae
blooms
and
now
a
lot
of
stuff
lives
in
this
lake
and
so
again,
I'm
trying
to
make
the
point
that
you
know
we're
emotionally
and
physically
connected
to
our
water
bodies
and
really
what
I
want
to
show
is
that
you
know
there's.
Is
anybody
familiar
with
the
concept
of
a
watershed?
A
So
essentially
it's
it's
a
physical
boundary
where
all
the
water
it
falls
on
one
place
and
drains
to
one
point.
So,
as
you
see
here,
this
is
the
minnehaha
Creek
Watershed
this
bubble
right
here
and
so
everything
that
falls
within
the
lake
minnetonka
area
into
minnehaha
Creek.
You
know,
there's
there's
essentially
a
ridge
that
runs
on
this
edge
and
a
ridge
that
runs
on
that
edge
and
everything
will
flow
down
essentially
to
the
creek
and
run
straight
to
the
river.
A
And
so
this
we've
broken
out
the
twin
cities
in
the
state
and
the
country
into
various
watershed
districts,
and
you
can
scale
this
up
or
down,
and
these
boundaries
will
still
be
there.
It's
pretty
infinite,
but
and
so
Bloomington.
We
have
Nine
Mile
Creek
right
here
we
have
the
Richfield
Bloomington
watershed
management
organization
and
we
have
the
lower
Minnesota
one
and
those
are
probably
the
three
main
ones.
A
The
plus
you
have
Riley
purgatory
Bluff
over
on
the
west
side
of
bloomington
there,
and
so
you
know
these
are
the
main
watershed
districts
here,
Nine
Mile
Creek
has
a
great
cost
share
program
for
anybody
who
wants
to
be
involved
in
that
the
deadline
is
approaching
fast.
That
I
believe
is
April
first
or
april
fifth,
something
like
that,
but
for
homeowners
they
offer
up
to
seventy-five
percent
cost
share
on
the
installation
of
a
rain
garden
which
is
up
to
three
thousand
dollars.
A
I
think
they're
capping
for
residential
plus
they
have
commercial
ones
and
institutional
ones
too.
So
I
advise
you
to
look
in
that
nine
mile
creek
torg,
but
blowing
back
up
to
this
watershed
scale.
Here's
the
Mississippi
River
watershed
flowing
all
the
way
down
to
the
Gulf
and
this
drains
38
states,
and
so
when
you
think
about
all
that,
runoff
that
comes
there
and
all
the
agricultural
runoff
with
all
the
phosphorous
and
all
that
flows
right
down
to
the
Gulf
and
what
we
get
is
the
dead
zone
in
the
Gulf.
A
And
this
is
the
shore
side,
and
this
is
the
greater
gulf
side.
And
you
see
this
is
just
it's
algae
Laden.
It's
there's
almost
zero
oxygen
and
there's
certain
parts
of
the
year
that
have
its
next
20
oxygen.
So
it's
a
brick
wall
for
fish
and
anything
that
wants
to
swim
in
there,
and
so
it's
really
important
that
we
try
to
limit
our
nutrient
loads
in
the
runoff
to
help
not
contribute
to
this.
So
much
and
so
you'll
see
that's
the
dead
zone
throughout
the
whole
Gulf.
A
Here's
Texas
Louisiana
all
the
way
down
the
board
and
this
flux
which,
with
the
LG
with
the
agricultural
season
2,
which
is
pretty
amazing,
to
watch
this
in
video
form
because
it's
it
blows
up
to
about
twice
the
size
in
the
during
the
spring.
When
there's
no
plants
in
the
ground,
but
there's
all
the
fertilizer
on
the
ground
so
again,
you
know
they
help
protect
rain,
gardens,
he'll,
protect
our
lakes,
rivers
and
streams
and
oceans,
and
so
how
does
rain
garden
work?
A
Well,
essentially,
it's
a
shallow
depression,
a
flat
bottom
bowl
where
it
can
receive
water.
In
many
ways
you
can
receive
water
through
an
underground
pipe
which
isn't
really
too
easily
illustrated
here,
but
you
know
say
that
would
come
from
your
downspout
and
you
can
bury
the
pipe
or
it
can
flow
over
land
into
the
rain
garden
just
over
the
top
of
the
ground
or
a
lot
of
times.
A
As
you
see
in
Bloomington,
like
offa
thomas,
I
have
a
new,
an
old
shakopee
road
there's,
there's
a
bunch
of
curb
cut
ring
guards
that
have
been
installed
where
they
take
water
straight
off
the
street,
but
essentially
it'll
collect
water
for
24
to
48
hours
and
slowly
soak
into
the
ground
that
way
and
the
plants
will
help
take
up
some
of
that
water,
but
the
ground
will
also
help.
You
know
the
plant
roots
will
also
help
convey
it
downwards.
A
So
here's
a
little
illustration
of
how
that
would
work
and
essentially
get
your
rainfall.
You
have
a
six
inch
deep
rain
garden
here,
there's
a
lot
of
times
typical
for
a
residential
garden,
but
you'll
fill
up
and
it'll
soak
into
where
you
amended
all
this
soil.
You
because
you
want
to
dig
deep
and
kind
of
loosen
a
lot
of
that
soil
and,
if
I
have
my
sound
on
you'd,
hear
that
the
birds
are
happy
now
and
they're
singing
and
but
that's
just
kind
of
a
way
to
illustrate
how
these
work.
A
In
short-
and
so
you
know,
a
lot
of
people
ask:
why
do
we
use
native
plants
and
really
you
know
they
provide
habitat
for
wildlife
on
a
limited
basis
and
they're
well
adapted
to
the
Minnesota
environment?
And
that's
really
the
big
key
for
you
know
wanting
to
use
native
plants
or
cultivars
of
those
native
plants,
and
so
we
look
at
the
pre-settlement
vegetation
map
of
the
Twin
Cities.
You
know
here's
Hennepin
County
here
we
see
you
know
a
lot
of
these.
Lighter
brown
and
yellow
areas
are
prairie
oak
Barrens.
A
You
know
hot
dry
areas,
typically
sandier
soils
and
when
you
get
out
towards
Lake
Minnetonka
and
the
western
suburbs,
there's
a
lot
more
big
woods,
predominantly
enforced
soils
or
a
little
more
clay,
they're
a
little
more
dense
and
a
lot
of
times.
You
know
there
would
be
much
different
vegetation
growing
here
than
here,
and
so
the
point
I'm
trying
to
get
to
is
when
you're.
Looking
at
your
driveway-
and
you
see
this-
you
know
it's
just
blazing
hot-
on
the
edge
of
your
driveway,
you
got
this
black
black
top.
A
It's
a
hundred
degrees
out
there
all
the
time,
even
when
it's
70,
you
know,
maybe,
if
you're
trying
to
figure
out
a
plant,
that's
going
to
survive
that
area.
Let's
look
to
the
hot
hot
prairies.
Let's
look
to
what
can
survive
these
really
hot.
You
know
harsh
environments
say
you
have
a
woody
environment
in
your
backyard.
Let's
look
to
a
lot
of
plants
that
grow
here,
and
this
is
kind
of
the
basis
for
what
we
try
to
do.
A
For
selecting
plants
for
your
ring
guards,
depending
on
where
they
are
new
yard
and
so
another
benefit
I.
Guess
too,
is
that
there's
not
much
of
this
left
and
you'll
see.
These
are
the
native
remnant
habitats
that
are
left
and
it's
you
know,
one
percent,
probably,
and
so
any
time
you
can
integrate
more
natives
as
food
and
fodder
for
any
butterflies,
birds,
insects,
small
mammals,
that's
all
the
better
and
going
back
to
the
root
systems.
This
is
15
feet
right
here.
A
So
they
measure
how
much
flow
comes.
At
the
end
of
these,
after
every
rainfall,
and
so
what
we
did
is
in
this
bottom
in
this
bottom
one
here
in
the
treatment
watershed
they
installed
one
at
just
about
every
single
house-
and
you
know,
of
course,
after
the
study
got
done.
The
last
guy,
who
initially
refused
it
said
well,
can
I
get
a
rain
garden.
A
Now
is
like
well
sorry,
the
study
is
over,
you
know,
so
if
anybody
offers
you
free
reign
garden,
you
take
it,
and
so,
but
you
can
see
these
are
pretty
extensive
in
there
right
off
the
roads.
Here.
It's
all
the
green
highlighted
areas
here
and
there's
also
a
few
where
there's
there's
a
shallow
depression
running
across
all
the
backyard.
So
they
want
to
capture
some
of
that
water.
That
goes
there
before
it
hits
the
street,
and
so
what
they
found.
A
I'll
show
you
image
here
before
what
they
found,
but
here's
a
before
shot
and
there's
an
after
shot,
and
so
a
lot
of
times,
they'll
have
like
a
small
back
retaining
wall
and
they'll
have
a
depressed,
curb
structure
where
the
water
will
come
in
and
then
the
flow
over
a
little
more
limestone
or
something
like
that,
just
to
kind
of
slow,
the
flow
of
the
water
and
capture
the
sediment
and
and
then
this
will
fill
up
and
drain
within
24
to
48
hours.
These
are
all
the
way
down
the
block.
A
A
So
you
can
see
there
they're
pretty
much
the
same
as
far
as
how
much
they
peak
whenever
they
get
a
rain
event,
and
so
this
is,
you
know
this
is
gallons,
so
this
is
about
10,000
gallons
right,
there
have
run
off,
and
so,
when
you
look
at
after
they
install
them
look
at
what
that
is,
I
mean
that
isn't
that's
I
think
was
originally
an
eighty-five
percent
reduction
after
the
planche
started
mature.
It
was
ninety
percent
ninety-three
percent
in
a
peaked
about
ninety
three
percent
for
a
few
years.
A
Ninety
percent,
which
is
great
so
yeah,
eighty-five
percent
volume
reduction
the
first
year,
and
so,
as
you
see
the
block
all
the
way
down,
they
have
all
these
gardens
and,
like
I
said
it
creates
a
great
neighborhood
identity
that
way
and
here's
it
shows
them
just
building
them,
and
here
shows
want
to
action
with
the
water
coming
off
the
curb
and
flowing
into
the
garden
and
starting
to
fill
up
so
building
the
rain
garden.
So,
let's
think
about
design
considerations,
some
of
the
main
things
you
want
to
think
about.
A
You
want
to
identify
the
existing
vegetation
around
there.
Are
there
trees
that
you
know
like
Oaks,
their
various
except
susceptible
to
oak
wilt,
and
so
you
usually
don't
want
to
dig
around
the
okra
system
too
much.
Otherwise
you
might
you
might
trigger
something
like
that
you
want
to
identify,
you
know:
is
there
just
a
weedy,
Siberian
Elm
somewhere
that
sheds
seeds
everywhere?
Is
that
going
to
be
a
weeding
maintenance
nightmare
five
years
down
the
road?
You
want
to
think
about
those
things.
A
A
little
bit
you
want
to
determine
the
location
of
utilities,
call
go
for
one
first
and
foremost
know
where
utilities
are
you
don't
want
to
hit
a
main
line?
It's
not
going
to
be
fun.
You
want
to
locate
all
your
structures.
Of
course,
your
house,
a
big,
citing
consideration,
is
always
try
to
stay
at
least
10
feet
away
from
your
building,
especially
if
you
have
a
basement
you'll
notice
later
in
the
in
the
presentation
that
there's
one
built
right
next
to
the
building,
but
it's
a
very
sandy
area
and
there's
no
basement
there.
A
So
there
wasn't
really
an
issue
with
that
and
then,
of
course
determine
your
property
lines,
easements
things
like
that,
because
you
don't
want
to
you
know
in
both
cities.
As
far
as
I
know,
you
don't
want
to
build
rain
gardens
across
property
lines
because
one
person
sells,
then
what
are
you
going
to
do
with
that
chunk
of
nobody
wants
to
take
care
of
it?
A
You
can
receive
water
from
somebody
else's
property,
but
you
don't
want
to
build
a
rain
garden
into
their
property
and
identify
any
other
local
ordinances
affecting
the
project
or
any
cost
share
opportunities
to
which
would
help
out
so
basic
keys
to
success
hydrology.
How
well
does
your
soil
infiltrate
water?
How
fast?
Because
it
can
it
soak
up
that
water
and
I'll
show
you
guys
how
to
do
that
in
a
minute
here,
soil
preparation,
you
want
to
over
dig
your
garden
really
loosen
up.
Uncompacted
soil,
that's
been
compacted
for
so
long
and
proper
plant
selection.
A
Is
it
sunny?
Is
it
dry?
Is
it
wet?
Is
it
hot?
Is
it
shady
and
we
have
a
lot
of
great
list
on
our
website
and
other
publications
that
we
put
out
that
are
really
easy
plant
selecting
tools
so
thinking
about
the
hydrology
thinking
about
your
hills
and
slopes?
What
are
the
water
sources
that
are
you
taking
water
from
a
downspout
from
the
corner
of
your
house?
Are
you
taking
it
from
a
neighboring
property
where
you
know
say:
everybody's
property
flows
to
yours?
You
got
to
consider
how
much
water
is
flowing
to
this
area.
A
What
are
the
high
and
low
points
you
know,
identify
where
things
start
to
concentrate
in
the
shallow
flow
areas,
or
is
there
a
swale
running
through
your
head
like
a
shallow,
ditch
or
something
like
that,
you
know:
do
you
have
to
consider
that
and
then
where's
it
going
after?
It
hits
the
point
where
you
might
want
to
put
a
rain
garden?
Is
it
still
going
to
go
downhill
from
that
point?
A
Are
you
all
of
a
sudden
now
redirecting
the
flow
if
you
insert
a
rain
garden
into
this
flow
path,
and
what
is
in
this
other
a
ton
of
lawn
chemicals?
Are
there
road,
salts
and
sediments
a
lot
of
times
if
you're
going
to
do
a
curb,
cut
rain
garden?
You
know
especially
like
in
the
city
of
Bloomington.
Usually
the
city
will
kind
of
help
with
all
the
sighting
and
they'll
even
help
with
the
plant
selection.
A
You
know
it's
up
to
you
to
kind
of
pick
what
you
want,
but
they'll
give
you
a
list
of
what
to
work
with
a
lot
of
times
if
you're
participating
in
their
curb
cut
ring
garden,
but
if
you're
just
doing
something
in
your
yard.
You
know
it's,
however,
confident
you
feel
there.
You
know
you
can
always
contact
Metro
blooms.
You
can
always
contact
your
watershed
district
for
assistance
in
this.
A
But
what
are
the
proper
interception
points
like
I
said?
Where
is
the
don't
put
one
at
the
very
bottom
of
a
watershed
where
everything
flows
to
one
point
right
before
it
hits
the
sewers
sometimes
because
a
lot
of
times
a
yard
isn't
big
enough
to
handle
all
that
water.
Try
to
put
it
up
higher,
so
you
can
limit
some
of
the
runoff
halfway
through
the
process
of
it
getting
to
the
storm
sewer.
A
Locating
the
garden
near
downspouts
near
driveways,
say
your
driveway
is
pitched
out
this
way
to
the
yard.
It's
a
great
place
to
put
a
really
long
rain
garden
right
along
this
whole
side.
Here,
if
you
drive
away
slopes
to
right
there,
because
it
will
capture
all
of
your
driveway
runoff
odds,
are
usually
flows
out
to
the
street.
But.
A
So
you
know,
and
also
you
know,
citing
a
minimum
of
10
feet
from
the
foundation
is
best,
especially
if
you
have
a
basement
and
avoiding
your
utility
lines:
septic
tanks,
things
like
that
and
there's
things
that
go
for.
One
won't
point
out
when
they
come
out
to
mark
out,
say
you
have
a
little
electrical
wire
running
from
your
garage
to
your
house
for
a
little
light
out.
There
make
sure
you
know
where
that's
at
so
sighs
in
the
garden
for
residential
yards.
A
If
you're
staying
under
10
by
15,
you
know
150
square
feet
a
lot
of
times.
The
depth
of
the
bed
is
more
important
than
your
area,
and
what
I
like
to
say
is
a
good
rule
of
thumb.
If
your,
if
your
soils
drain
relatively
well,
you
can
usually
get
away
with
the
six
to
nine
inch
deep
rain
garden.
That's
probably
the
standard
I
like
to
do,
and
once
you
get
into
a
foot
or
anything
larger
than
that
it
really
limits
your
plant
selection.
A
You
know
most
most
plants
can
tolerate
a
six
inch
depth
that
are
proven
for
rain
gardens,
and
so
you
know
like
it
says
here:
an
average-size
might
be
six
to
ten
feet
near
one
down
spot
because
that's
usually
about
a
quarter
of
your
roof
and
that's
about
the
size
a
lot
of
times
for
for
capturing
that
much
water
and
draining
within
24
to
48
hours,
because
we
don't
want
these
to
be
a
mosquito
trap.
Mosquitoes
need
three
days
to
lay
their
eggs.
A
Let
it
drain
once
fill
it
up
again.
Let
it
drain
again,
third
time,
because
what
we
want
to
do
is
we
want
to
simulate
a
saturated
conditioner
in
your
soil.
How
fast
can
your
soil
drain
when
it's
already
full
of
water,
and
so
after
the
third
time
you
feel
it
stick
a
little
popsicle
stick
or
just
a
stick
at
the
top
of
the
hole.
So
you
can
measure
something
from
there
and
come
back
in
an
hour
measure
how
far
down
that
water
went
come
back
in
two
hours,
maybe
measure
how
far
down
that
went.
A
Really
you
want
just
like
an
even
increment
that
you
can
multiply
that
out
over
24
hours,
and
so
here
they
measured
say
this
is
a
really
slow
draining
soil
and
it
only
drained
a
quarter
inch
in
24
hour
in
one
hour,
so
they'll
multiply
that
times.
24.
That
gives
you
a
six
inch
deeper
in
garden,
so
I
mean.
So,
even
if
your
soil
drains
really
slow
like
I,
said,
a
six
inch
deeper
in
garden
will
usually
take
care
of
what
you
need.
A
As
long
as
you
get
your
area
to
fit
roughly
how
much
water
is
coming
to
the
site.
So,
like
I
said
anytime,
you
can
get
around
70
to
150
square
feet
somewhere
in
there,
depending
on
how
big
your
house
is,
that's
usually
a
great
size,
and
so
a
lot
of
people
think
you
know.
I
have
to
have
a
flat
bottom
bowl
in
this
rain
garden,
because
I
want
to
be
able
to
overflow
the
rain
garden
to
a
certain
point.
I
want
to
be
able
to
make
sure
the
water
spreads
evenly
across
the
yard.
A
Well,
they
would
typically
think
you
know.
You
can't
really
put
these
on
a
shallow
slope,
then.
Well
really.
This
works
out
to
our
advantage,
because
what
we
can
do
is
we
can
cut
out
this
area
here
and
use
that
to
pile
up
a
Berman
on
the
overflow
side,
and
so
you
can
really
use
all
that
so
that
you
just
dug
on
a
shallow
slope,
and
so
now
you
have
this
nice
flat
bottom
bowl.
A
You
have
a
berm,
it's
an
inch
lower,
at
least
than
the
word
area
where
the
water
came
into,
and
it's
really
works
out
to
be
a
good
good,
sighting
issue
there
and
then
your
first
growing
season
you
want
to
you
know,
limit
standing
water
while
the
plants
are
small.
So
if,
if
you're
noticing
these
things
are
staying
full
for
a
long
time,
you
might
want
to
knock
down
where
the
where
the
water
normally
overflows,
knock
down.
A
That
berm
just
like
another
inch,
so
the
water
will
drain
a
little
bit
faster,
so
it'll
come
down
a
little
bit
in
level
and
I'll
go
a
little
more
into
actual
construction
here.
So
you
can
kind
understand
what
I'm
talking
about
here,
but
you
want
a
water
in
that
first
season
during
the
dry
periods
you
know,
native
plants
are
great,
but
they
still
need
to
get
established.
A
They
still
need
to
get
that
root
system
going,
and
so,
if
you
can
water
during
that
first
season,
if
it's
really
droughty
like
last
fall,
you
know
that
was
awful
for
most
the
installations
we
did.
So
we
really
had
to
make
sure
to
call
everybody
back
and
say:
you
know,
make
sure
your
water
and
these,
otherwise
you
can
have
a
hard
time
next
spring,
but
usually
after
that
first
year,
unless
it's
a
whole
summer,
drought,
they're,
pretty
self-sufficient
plants
as
far
as
watering
needs
and
pull
weeds.
A
So
I
can't
can't
stress
that
enough,
because
everybody
says
oh
ring
guards
are
so
low
maintenance,
while
they're
low
water
maintenance.
But
it's
still,
you
have
all
this
bare
soil.
That's
still
there
still
weeds,
they're,
so
different
ways
to
get
water
to
your
site
to
your
rain
garden.
We
you
know
here,
you
have
a
granite
sidewalks
lab
with
a
little
depression
underneath
where
we
have
a
garden
here
and
a
garden
on
the
other
side
where
they're
connected
underneath
that's
you
know,
this
is
really
again
limited
by
your
own
creativity.
A
A
Here,
here's
a
dry,
creek
bed
and
you
know
maybe
the
whole
homes
downspouts-
will
all
come
to
this
one
point:
the
dry,
creek
bed
and
this
thing
will
just
be
roaring
once
there's
a
rain
event,
but
it'll
be
dry
when
there's
no
rain,
and
so
here's
an
illustration
of
one
of
those
channel
drains
in
section
where
the
rod
will
come
down
the
driveway
hit.
This
pocket
that's
set
in
a
little
a
little
pocket
of
concrete
and
then
that
will
flow
over
to
the
rain
garden.
A
You
can
put
it
under
the
garden
to
get
that
slope
and
then,
once
the
pressure
backs
up
enough,
this
thing
will
pop
up
and
the
water
will
fill
the
garden
from
underneath
and
there's
a
million
ways
to
do
this
system
to
which
I
don't
have
time
to
get
into.
But,
and
you
know
a
lot
of
times,
we
want
to
connect
under
a
sidewalk,
sometimes,
and
so
a
lot
of
people
are
like.
Oh
at
the
rip
up,
my
sidewalk
well
I
have
seen
people
do
it.
A
Did
it
this
summer
for
a
project
it
took
about
20
minutes,
it's
a
lot
of
elbow
grease,
but
it
and
it's
a
messy
job,
but
it
works,
and
so
you
can
see
here
there
pounding
it
through
and
it's
slowly
getting
through
and
now
you
see
it
comes
out
the
other
side
there
and
a
lot
of
times.
It's
it's
great,
because
you
don't
just
need
to
dig
the
trench
wide
enough
to
get
your
hands
in
there
to
move
around.
So
you
don't
need
it's
not
a
huge
disturbance,
so
the
flat
bottom
bowl.
This
is.
A
A
Who
knows-
and
this
isn't
going
to
hold
10
inches
rain,
so
you
have
to
account
for
where
your
water
is
going
to
overflow
to
and
so
always
making
sure
that
you
have
one
point
in
the
garden
that
is
at
least
an
inch
lower
than
the
rest
of
the
border
of
the
edge
of
the
garden.
So
you
can
think
of
you
know
like
a
cereal
bowl
and
if
you
just
put
a
crack
in
the
edge
of
it,
you
know
the
milk
will
spill
out
where
that
crack
is
now.
A
You
know
if
you
put
a
little
divot
there,
and
so
you
want
a
place
where
this
is
gonna,
be
all
over
flow
too,
because
you
don't
want
it
backing
up
towards
your
house,
you
don't
want
it
backing
up
towards
any
other
critical
structures
and
so
make
sure
this
is
always.
You
know
going
to
the
downhill
side
going
back
out
to
the
street.
A
After
that,
at
least
you're
capturing
a
good
portion
of
that
water
in
the
meantime,
and
so
to
make
sure
this
the
flat
bottom
bowl,
you
can
do
it
two
ways
you
can
have
this
little
laser
transit.
It's
really
just
a
kind
of
a
cheaper
surveying
tool
and
it'll.
Allow
you
to
shoot
a
laser
level
and
just
check
all
your
depths
across
the
bottom
or
you
can
do
it
the
old
way
and
put
two
stakes
in
put
a
line
level
on
there,
with
a
string
attached
to
it
and
just
measure
down
how
far
that
is.
A
So
you
want
to
measure
say
this
is
six
inches
from
here
to
here,
and
you
want
a
six
inch
deep
garden.
Well,
make
sure
that
every
point
you
measure
along
this
line
is
12.
Inches
now
just
add
the
two
together
and
you
know
it's
fine
if
it
varies
within
an
inch
or
two,
but
just
make
sure
that
the
bottom
of
the
bowl
is
relatively
flat.
You
know
a
lot
of
times,
we'll
just
eyeball
it
and
we'll
know
just
from
work
with
it.
A
So
much
that
you
can
tell
when
it's
flat,
but
just
make
sure
again
that
the
overflow
is
cited
properly
and
it's
lower
than
every
other
point
in
the
garden
materials
for
building
the
garden.
We
prefer
double
shredder,
hardwood,
mulch
I
know.
There's
free
mulch
is
available
like
through
the
Minneapolis
Park
Board,
or
something
like
that.
It's
a
really
weedy
source,
plus
it's
wood
chips.
Wood
chips
tend
to
float
when
the
garden
fills
up
and
they'll
all
move
to
one
side
of
the
garden
and
you're.
You
know
you're
not
going
to
like
that.
A
So
when
you
do
a
double
shredded,
hardwood,
mulch
they're
a
little
more
fiber
and
they
tend
to
lock
together.
So
when
you
walk
across
the
garden
to
it,
kind
of
helps,
distribute
your
weight
a
little
bit
more
over
the
gardens,
so
you're
not
reek
impactful
as
much
as
you
would,
with
a
with
a
standard
chip.
Also,
you
want
to
Rio
mend
your
soil
with
some
compost,
something
that's
going
to
retain
a
little
bit
water
for
those
droughty
periods
and
you
know:
retain
water
for
longer
some
native
plants,
a
lot
of
people
stress
strictly
native
plants.
A
Honestly,
if
you
have
a
situation
like
this,
these
are
not
natives.
This
is
Carl
Forester
grass,
that's
a
russian
sage!
That's
a
goldstern!
Black-Eyed
Susan,
the
you
know
the
black-eyed
Susan
is
it's
a
variation
of
a
native
plant,
but
it's
it's
a
little
more
robust.
It
has
a
nicer,
tighter
form,
a
lot
of
times
the
native
plants
tend
to.
They
want
to
flop
quite
a
bit,
and
so
I
really
want
to
stress
that
it's
not
just
natives.
It's
it's
limited
to
variations
of
these
natives
as
well.
That
worked
out
really
well.
A
So
the
key
is
to
double
dig.
If
you
want
a
six-inch
garden,
remove
nine
inches
of
soil.
First
then
go
down
at
least
a
shovel
head
deep,
more
and
turn
that
soil
over
really
d
compact
it,
and
so
after
you've
done
that
after
you
fluffed
up
that
other
soil
you'll
be
back
up
to
roughly
about
that
six-inch
step
that
you
wanted,
and
so
then
throwing
your
compost.
A
Usually
it's
about
a
half
a
yard
to
yard,
depending
on
how
bad
your
soils
are,
but
about
a
half
a
yard
of
compost
is
what
we
would
typically
use
for.
Well,
draining
soil,
just
as
a
nice
amendment
for
organic
material,
and
once
you
once
you
add
that
you
should
be
able
to
turn
that
back
over
again
and
mix
the
compost
with
your
with
your
sub
soil
and
so
I'll
show
you
a
picture
that
too
in
a
second
here,
but
you
know,
don't
go
more
than
a
foot
deep
here.
A
It's
it's
just
really
too
much
there
for
storage,
but
here
you
see
he's
got
a
sod
kicker
and
he's
kicking
off
the
side.
He
laid
the
line
of
you
know
the
rough
shape
he
wanted
with,
like
tape,
measure
garden
hose.
You
can
spray
paint
it
in
there,
but
then
you
go
through
the
side.
Kicker
pull
off
the
side.
A
If
you
want
to
save
it
for
something
else
later
side
kickers
are
great,
because
then
you
can
roll
up
the
side
and
place
it
somewhere
else,
and
you
know
filling
a
patch
somewhere
else
in
the
yard,
you're
going
to
remove
the
side,
and
then
here
they're,
going
in
and
along
the
edge
of
the
sidewalk,
feel
dig
straight
down
and
loosen
up
that
whole
edge.
You
can
always
rebuild
that
wall
against
the
sidewalk.
There
just
don't
go
under
the
sidewalk,
and
here
they
dug
down
to
the
depth
they
want
they
over
Doug.
A
They
turned
everything
over
and
now
they're,
adding
the
compost
and
they're
going
to
re
rotate
kind
of
retail
that
back
into
the
soil
there
and
a
lot
of
times.
You
know
you'll
notice
that
your
recompense
oil
so
just
start
at
one
end
of
the
garden
and
move
your
way
down.
You
know
if
you
have
two
people
working
on
it,
try
to
start
at
one
end
still
and
work
your
way
down.
A
Then
you're,
not
rican
packing
everything
you
just
loosened
up
and
here's
Craig
looks
like
a
giant
against
this
garden
and
but
really
now
he's
raking
the
side.
Walls
back
up
he's
creating
a
nice
shallow
slope
off
the
edge
of
the
garden,
and
so
usually
it's
you
know
for
every
one
photo
rise.
You
want
about
three
feet
of
slope,
and
so
so
this
will,
you
know
here,
you'll
notice,
the
flat
bottom
here,
since
it's
such
an
aerogarden.
A
And
here
rusty
is
another
guy
who
gives
presentations
and
he
kind
of
wrote
the
book
on
storm
water
plants.
He's
measuring
the
end
here
and
making
sure
that
you
know
with
the
water
is
coming
off
the
sidewalk
that
this
is
still
higher
than
your
overflow
point
and
now
you'll
see
that
it's
already
mulched
before
you
plant
and
what
you
want
to
do
is
what
you
want
to
make
sure
the
mulch
is
down
it's
kind
of
counterintuitive,
how
you'd
normally
do
a
garden,
but
really
what
you
want
to
do.
A
Is
you
want
to
put
the
mulch
down?
So
you
don't
reek
impacto
garden
essentially-
and
this
is
where
that
double
shredded
hardwood
mulch
comes
in
handy,
and
so
then
you
space
out
your
plants
to
how
you
think
you're
going
to
want
them,
and
then
you
can
go
back
in
there,
pull
the
mulch
away,
dig
your
whole
plant
the
plant
and
pulled
mulch
back
up
next
to
it,
don't
pull
the
mulch
against
the
actual
plant
because
a
lot
of
times
the
mulch
is
right
against
the
plant
stem.
A
It
tends
to
want
to
rot
and
retain
moisture
against
the
stem
so
make
sure.
There's
a
little
gap
between
the
stem
and
the
mulch,
so
here's
another
site-
and
you
like
I,
said
you'll
notice
that
this
one
is
right
next
to
hear.
But
there
there
was
no
basement
here
and
it's
a
really
well
draining
soil
over
here,
and
so
here
they
already
amended
the
soil
with
they
already
dug
at
once
and
then
remove
the
soil
that
they
need
it.
And
then
they
added
about
a
yard
and
a
half
a
compost.
A
Here
now
he's
going
back
through
and
re
mixing
that,
through
you
notice
that
it's
not
a
bobcat
and
he's
not
driving
through
the
middle
of
it.
He's
you
know,
working
from
the
edge
of
the
garden
was
something
that
can
scoop
in
and
out
without
recompense,
and
so
after
that,
after
he
had
tilled
all
that
up,
they
set
the
levels
of
the
berm
they
wanted
to
overflow
out
this
point
pretty
much
from
this
edge
to
this
edge.
So
all
this
will
be
set
about
one
inch
lower
than
this
edge,
this
edge
in
this
edge.
A
So
this
is
all
your
high
side
of
the
garden
and
that's
your
lowest
point
right
there
and
of
the
actual
edge
of
the
garden,
and
everything
else
is
six
inches
down
from
that
berm
edge
and
you'll
see
it's.
You
know
quite
flat
here
after
they
raked
it
all
over.
They
tamp
down
the
berm,
just
a
tiny
bit
just
to
make
sure
it's
secure,
and
then
they
lay
down
the
mulch
and
set
out
the
plants
ready
for
planting,
and
you
can
see
you
know
it's
okay
to
walk
in
the
garden.
A
Just
you
know,
don't
have
30
people
standing
in
it
and
then
watering
and
smiling.
You
need
a
lot
of
that
right
after
you
put
them
in,
and
so
what
I'm
going
to
do
is
I'm
going
to
go
over
plants
such
in
a
little
bit
so
again,
the
bluth
up
guides
rain
gardens.
This
is
what
rusty
had
written
and
Dan
shower
works
at
the
board
of
water
and
soil
resources.
A
They
they
put
together
this
great
guide
as
far
as
how
to
cite
your
garden
goes
way
more
in-depth
than
what
I'm
ever
able
to
accomplish
in
45
minutes,
and
it
also
gives
you
great
tips
on
plant
selection
plant
pallets,
whether
you
have
a
shade
garden,
whether
you
have
a
sunny
garden
it'll,
give
you
like
a
starting
template
to
work
with
and
how
you
can
substitute
in
and
out
from
there.
So
it's
it's
really.
A
We
use
this
a
lot
at
our
other
workshops
or
we're
sitting
down
with
homeowners
individually
in
helping
them
site,
rain,
gardens
and
it's
I'd
swear
by
this
book.
So
but
you
can
go
to
blue
thumb,
org
Metro
blooms.
We
sell
them
to.
You
can
find
these
really
anywhere
right
now,
but
plant
selection
criteria
really
look
at.
You
know,
there's
a
lot
of
factors
here.
You
want
to
know
how
much
moisture
they
can
take.
Can
they
be?
A
Can
they
be
inundated
with
water
in
a
pool
of
water
for
24
hours
at
a
time
some
plants
can't
handle
it.
Some
of
the
prairie
plants
can't
handle
it,
but
some
of
the
stuff
that's
on
like
a
wetland
edge.
They
can
tolerate
that
water
bounce
sunshade.
Is
it
sunny
shady?
How
well
does
your
soil
drain
some
plants
can't
handle
clay,
some
plants,
love
sand
and
then
really
design
characteristics?
Do
you
want
stuff
to
bloom
all
season?
You
can
think
about
those
things.
Do
you
want
stuff?
A
A
Do
you
want
certain
butterflies
to
come
to
your
garden,
because
there's
certain
you
know
certain
blazing
stars
that
are
only
attract
certain
butterflies
which
are
really
nice
and
also
purchase
availability
if
you're
down
in
southern
Minnesota,
it's
really
hard
to
find
a
nursery
that
has
all
the
stuff
that
you
want,
but
if
you're
up
here
near
the
cities,
that's
there's
going
to
be
a
wealth
of
opportunity
to
find
what
you
need
and
so
I'll
kind
of
cruise
through
this
really
quick.
But
you
know
you
can
see
blue
flag.
A
Iris
is
one
of
the
most
versatile
plants
we
have
for
our
rain
gardens,
it's
a
great
plant,
it's
a
great
structure
and
it
can
handle
drought
or
wet
for
the
most
part,
purple,
coneflower
and
and
the
black-eyed
Susans.
Those
tend
to
be
the
most
common
plants.
You'll
see
a
lot
of
times
because
they're
very
versatile
plants
and
they're
both
adapted
to
kind
of
a
wet
meadow
or
a
prairie.
So
they
can,
they
can
handle
that
variability
in
in
the
water,
trees
and
shrubs
there's
you
can
even
put
trees
in
your
gardens.
A
Those
actually
help
infiltrate
even
more,
but
you
have
autumn
blaze.
Maple,
you
have
a
black
chokeberry,
there's
full
the
native
ones
or
eight
feet
around.
They
have
the
shorter
ones
that
are
like
three
feet:
tall,
the
automatic
ones
you
can
do.
River
birches.
You
know
that
there
are
a
lot
of
trees.
There's
serviceberries
one
of
my
favorite
that
you
can
put
them
and
they're
really
great
trees
and
grasses.
A
You
know
highly
encourage
the
grasses
and
if
you
do
little
bluestem
Karl
Foerster
grass,
this
one
is
used
quite
a
bit
now,
just
because
it's
really
versatile,
you
can
put
it
right
in
the
middle
of
rain
garden.
It
does
great
little
bluestem
likes
it
a
little
more
up
towards
the
edges,
though,
and
that's
little
bluestem
as
you
grow
through
the
season,
and
it
gets
a
get
some
nice
brighter
color,
and
you
can
also
have
there's
a
lot
of
stuff
for
shade
to
edges
which
are
like
the
grass
equivalent
for
part
shade.
A
They
do
like
it
a
little
more
moist,
but
usually
when
a
shady
it's
a
little
more
moist
lady
fern
Columbine
culvers
root,
which
is
quite
a
bit
taller
wild
geranium.
A
lot
of
these
are
native
plants
that
tend
to
spread
a
little
more.
At
least
these
top
three
do.
But
you
know
there
are
a
lot
of
other
shade
plants
you
can
still
put
in
gardens.
A
You
know
hostas
are
very
tolerant
of
that
and,
if
you'd
like
to
be
a
hosta
gardener
that
they
work
out
really
well
they're,
very
versatile,
Blue,
lobelia
and
turtle
head
or
some
of
my
favorites
for
the
shade
and
definitely
all
the
sedges
I
love
all
the
different
grassy
textures
that
you
can
get
in
their
low
clump,
forming
things
that
don't
spread
to
to
aggressively
full
Sun.
Look
to
the
prairie
plants,
again,
look
to
the
coreopsis,
the
Prairie
drop
seed
like
the
hyssop
and
the
butterfly
milkweed
and
again
blazing
star.
A
This
is
I,
mean
the
butterflies
can't
resist
the
blazing
star.
I
mean
it
won't
it'll,
be
calming
it
you'll,
see
three
or
four
on
the
same
stem
they're,
just
crazy
for
it
and
early
sunflower
again,
there's
a
Carl
Forester.
You
can
see
it's
pretty
versatile
because
we
have
in
a
few
pictures-
and
you
know
other
horticultural
varieties
again,
hostas
blueberries.
If
you
mend
your
soil
to
be
a
little
more
acidic,
you
can
even
grow
blueberries.
A
You
can
grow
some
vegetables
in
your
garden,
just
avoid
things
that
have
to
burrs,
because
a
lot
of
times,
like
you
know,
like
carrots,
things
like
that
they'll
store
a
lot
of
those
toxins
in
that
tuber,
but
leafy
greens,
other
berries
that
have
a
process
to
go
through
the
rest
of
the
plant
before
they
actually
fruit.
Those
are
okay
for
a
lot
of
times
growing
in
your
garden.
I
still
tend
to
stay
away
from
them.
If
you're
taking
a
lot
of
pollutants
off
the
street,
but
in
your
yard
there's
really
not
much.
A
So
here's
a
couple
examples:
I
just
go
through
a
couple
examples
of
other
gardens,
real
quick,
but
we
have
a
gray
headed
cone
flower
butterfly
milkweed,
there's
the
purple
coneflower,
and
this
is
just
a
wet
meadow.
This
is
what
you
normally
see
out
in
nature,
but
a
lot
of
these
are
adapted
to
this
wet
environment
that
you
can
put
into
a
nice.
A
semi-wet
ring
guard
and.
A
So
really,
you
know
mixing
these
up,
mixing
up
your
grasses,
your
flowers
and
your
shrubs.
You
know
you
want
to
create
all
season
interest
a
lot
of
times,
shrubs
have
that
nice
form
all
winter
long,
something
to
look
at
for
biz
a
flower.
Essentially
it's
really
any
native
flower
yep
and
so
make
sure
the
natives
and
cultivars
so
cultivars
are
just
varieties
of
those
natives
or
you
know
anything
where
you
pretty
much
mash
two
flowers
together
and
try
to
get
another
result
or
you
select
for
a
certain
growing
characteristic
of
that
flower.
A
So,
in
the
back
of
that
book
that
I
show
you,
the
blue
thumb
guide.
You'll
have
templates
that
are
kind
of
like
this
and
they'll
have
here's
where
you
can
put
this
flower,
this
flower,
here's
where
they're
better
in
the
basin
versus
around
the
edge
of
the
garden,
because
on
the
edge
of
the
gardener,
definitely
is
higher
and
drier
and
they
don't
get
as
much
water
as
you
would
in
the
bottom.
So
you
want
to
think
about
that
a
little
bit
and
that's
why
that
blue
thumb
guide
is
really
handy.
A
It's
like
eighteen
dollars
or
something
like
that
and,
like
I
said
it's
best,
eighteen
dollars
I
ever
spent,
but
try
to
do
things
in
drifts
where
things
are
really
apparent.
That,
like
this
is
you
know
you
have
five
of
this
plant
here.
I
know
that
one
in
the
middle
is
not
what
this
plant
is.
That's
a
weed.
Let's
pull
that
and
then
that's
it.
It
makes
weeding
a
heck
of
a
lot
easier
rather
than
the
shotgun
approach
where
you
just
have
just
scattering
everything
everywhere.
A
It
really
helps
if
you,
if
well,
first
of
all,
if
you
don't
know
your
plants
that
well
I,
think
drift
planting
is
a
really
great
intuitive
way
to
manage
your
garden,
and
so
here's
a
couple
other
ones.
You
know
hard
edges
of
your
friend.
They
create
a
nice
edge
to
your
garden,
and
you
know
a
lot
of
times.
Grass
is
going
to
want
to
creep
in
so
I
do
recommend
using
if
you're
going
to
use
edging
like
on
this
side.
A
If
the
water
is
coming
in
off
the
lawn
steel,
edging
I
highly
recommend
because
it
sits
flush
with
the
edge,
but
if
that's
too
expensive,
you
still
can
do
a
vinyl
edging
with
the
with
a
knob
at
the
top,
but
a
lot
of
times,
if
you
notice
the
water
is
coming
to
one
point
to
flow
into
your
garden,
cut
a
little
notch
on
that
knob.
So
the
water
can
flow
past
that,
because
a
lot
of
times
that
knobs
going
to
be
a
barrier
for
water
to
get
into
your
garden.
A
But
here's
a
this
is
one
of
the
greatest
examples
of
a
rain
garden.
They
took
all
the
water
from
all
the
from
all
the
downspouts
in
the
house,
pump
them
to
one
side
and
underground
pipe
and
they
flow
out
through
the
back
this
Boulder
wall
and
into
this
garden
here
and
I'll
show
you
more
pictures
of
that
here.
You
know:
here's
another
curb
cut
rain
garden,
actually,
I!
Guess
we're
going
to
come
back
to
that
guess
the
slides
a
little
further
down.
A
A
You
know,
here's
the
they
extend
the
garden
out
this
way,
and
so
you
can
see
we're
looking
at
it
from
the
other
angle.
Now
you
can
see
the
extended
this
out
here.
Doug
there
Doug
there,
six
to
nine
inch
Bowl
here
and
the
water
is
going
to
flow
in
and
fill
up
right
through
there
and
then
it's
going
to
overall
it'll
soak
in
and
then
an
overflow
out
over
the
edge
of
the
berm.
A
And
then
so
they
really
went
overboard
and
put
this
berm
erosion
control
man
over
the
edge
of
it.
You
usually
don't
have
to
do
that,
but
this
is
the
way
they
want
to
do
it
and
they
just
planted
through
that
Matt
and
but
there
they
have
a
bunch
of
blue
flag
iris
and
some
other
plants
there
and
they
you
know
they
still
have
their
old
juniper
there.
A
And
but
this
is
a
you
know,
it's
a
really
easy
way
to
integrate.
What
you
have
you
can
also
do
rain
barrels
to
capture
and
then
feed
some
of
the
water
too,
if
you
don't
have
enough
room
for
a
rain
garden,
but
you
know
this
is
something
we
usually
get
into
more
in
our
hour
longer
workshops
where
we
can
really
explore
these
other
storm
water,
runoff
possibilities.
A
A
A
So
the
rain
guard
is
actually
hidden
in
there,
but
you
can't
really
see
it
too
well,
but
it
overflows
out
that
way
to
the
sidewalk
in
the
back
of
the
street
if
ever
has
to
fill
up,
but
again
we're
back
to
that
other
one
where
she
took
where
she
took
all
the
neighbors
homes
were
flowing
to
this
area.
So
they
put
a
backyard
rain
garden
in
here.
A
A
So
you
can
see
the
backyard
one's
filling
up
here
and
going
out
to
the
front
of
the
yard,
and
so
that's
what
it
was
before
and
that's
what
it
was
after.
She
is
quite
a
bit
of
they
just
knocked
out
that
whole
slope
and
put
a
boulder
wall
on
the
back
of
it
and
and
the
pipes
come
out
of
the
wall
there
and
there
and
they
fill
this
up.
A
A
If
you
want
a
design
and
we'll
send
that
back
out
to
you
and
any
installation
assistance
as
far
as
recommendations,
things
like
that,
we're
always
there,
for
you,
know:
here's
another
one
where
we
just
do
a
drift
planting
scheme
and
give
you
the
plants
there.
And
you
know
he
even
had
a
little
section
here,
just
with
your
depth
and
what
you
need.
B
A
Cost
varies
quite
a
bit.
It
really
depends
on
what
you
want.
You
know
I've
seen
some
people
get
them
as
cheap.
As
you
know,
if
you
want
to
dig
the
garden
yourself
and
then
it's
else
install
all
the
plants,
you
can
get
it
down
to
three
to
five
hundred
dollars
with
materials,
if
you
just
by
native
plugs,
but
if
you
want
larger
stock
to
go
in
the
ground,
if
you
want,
you
know
larger
boulders
things
like
that.
A
If
you
need
pipes,
you
know
these
and
you
have
a
contractor
come
out
and
do
it
there
easily
going
fifteen
to
twenty-five
hundred.
So
it's
for
just
an
average
size
ring
guard,
but
you
know
so,
like
I
said
that
the
price
fluctuates
quite
a
bit,
but
if
you
do
it
yourself
kind
of
guy
and
you're
able
to
dig
the
hole,
it's
you
can
cut
down
that
cloth
cost
quite
a
bit.