This home owner found that there sump pump was running often, creating a swampy, muddy mess on the side of the house and flowing into the street. They were hiring landscapers for their yard and had them install the rain garden in the process. It is a shallow bowl shape, filled with shrubs. This is a good example of a rain garden created to be the feature of the yard.
New Steinbach Rain Garden
Benefits
- Captures water from the sump pump that was soaking the yard and going onto the road
- Acts as a landscape focal point
- Will act as a pollinator habitat
Characteristics
- Sump pump water is directed into the garden across the lawn
- It’s a large garden with a large capacity for capturing water
- The garden will also collect water that runs down the lawn
