How to Build a Native Plant Rain Garden - A Step-by-Step Tutorial

[@mandibees]

I LOVED this video! Very interesting, informative and has me very excited to do a rain garden!!!

[@gonatureforward]

Thank you! So happy to hear that the video is useful for you!

[@jacobbelfield9835]

Remind those guys to break up the root systems to get them to integrate into their new soil setting!! Sweet design btw!

[@gonatureforward]

Great point!

[@Shakespearept]

Smart garden for sure 👍👍🌱🌱

[@christinarennich5092]

Great video! I learned so much!

[@gonatureforward]

We appreciate you letting us know, thank you!

[@wildonesbaltimore]

Fantastic tutorial, thank you!!

[@gonatureforward]

Great to hear, thank you!

[@catherineplaisant]

Thank you. Well done.

[@JillofAllTrades2]

Great video. I learned some important concepts that I’ll be incorporating into my in-progress rain garden. How reassuring to know runoff into Rock Creek is being reduced by this rain garden. (Aren’t you cutting into the curb? Why is it called a curve cut?)

[@gonatureforward]

Yes, cutting into the curb, and the resulting term is "curb cut." Sorry for any confusion on the terminology. Happy to hear you like the video!

[@taramansion]

Important topic and every yard should have a rain garden for the wildlife and for the bays and estuaries. You lost me with the landscape fabric, though. That stuff just ends up as trash and prevents air from getting into the soil.

[@gonatureforward]

Thank you for watching! A rain garden in every yard sounds great to us and would make a world of difference.

[@dalesturgill8817]

I'm with you on that. I don't think they shouldn't avoid plants in the stones they would help slow the water even more and provide partial watering zones for even more diversity. I do understand that part of their thing was making it look nice.

[@JillofAllTrades2]

Isn’t it organic compostable matter and so ends up incorporated into the soil? You’re referring to that white material that looks like it could be coconut husk-type matter, yes?

[@taramansion]

@@JillofAllTrades2 I've seen people pull it up intact years later. It 100% stifles soil biology.