Excellent Plants for Your Rain Garden
While creating a rain garden requires some thought and effort, choosing the plants is one of the most enjoyable steps. A successful rain garden depends on you completing this step. You get to select if you want a lush mini-ecosystem of native plants that is good for the environment and remains beautiful even after every rainstorm, or a marshy pool full of dead plants. Standing water at the bottom of the garden should be provided around these landscaping plants since they may survive in moist environments.
Wild Bergamot
Planning to include wild bergamot in your rain garden is a no-brainer because it is a gorgeous bloom. It encourages pollinators, offers beauty, and aids with water penetration. The biggest attraction of any bergamot plant, apart from the hummingbirds it attracts, is the free tea you can prepare from the blooms.
Red Columbine
The columbine has a distinctive appearance and a root structure that is excellent for absorbing water and building a dense matrix to control erosion along the slope of your garden if water overflows along the edge or the inlet.
Hairy Beardtongue
The name of this oddly called plant comes from the follicles that develop on the blossom. Although it can grow in a broad range of environments, it does best in dry places, so the border of your rain garden is the ideal location for its lovely blossoms to draw bumblebees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
Ohio Spiderwort
The drought-tolerant native Ohio spiderwort has grass-like leaves that reach two to three feet in height and blooms that open for just one day, making it the ideal plant to add height and structure to your garden. Be cautious since in some southern climates this might be aggressive.
Blue Flag Iris
The Blue Flag is yet another possible focal point for your landscape. Iris may steal the show, thus all the other plants should be positioned around it. The iris is a terrific addition due to its height and exotic appearance; its only negative is that its blossoms only last a short time. But even after the blossoms have faded, the plant’s root structure remains and maintains the rain garden’s usefulness.
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