Rain Gardens

Rain gardens are a simple solution to a complex problem.

Rain gardens can have a huge impact upon the health of your watershed and they are easy to install. Simply stated, a rain garden is a shallow depression planted with native plants where you can direct rain water. The deep roots of the native plants help the water infiltrate into the soil instead flooding out your yard. When compared to turf grass, these pollutant filtering systems can help 30-40% more rainwater infiltrate into the soil.

Rain Gardens native plant beds, prairies and savannas provide for a beautiful, hardy and drought tolerant landscape. Whether your concerns are to reduce site maintenance and storm water runoff or to simply attract more birds and butterflies, the use of native plants makes for a wise investment.

Let our team of experts install a rain garden for you.

Our team has the expertise to design and install a rain garden that will stay beautiful throughout the year. We can integrate a native rain garden into your landscape to perfectly blend with your existing site while serving all of the functional needs of water filtration and infiltration.

Naturalized Detention Basins

A conventional detention basin consists of a riprap lined shallow-water basin surrounded by turf grass side-slopes. Although conventional basins provide storm water storage they do very little to treat the polluted storm water runoff for the receiving stream. This results in an increase in nonpoint source pollution downstream. Storm water runoff from developed areas contains a variety of pollutants including sediments, organic matter, heavy metals, bacteria, and nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous.

A naturalized detention basin can be an attractive landscaped basin containing a variety of native plants including trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Native plants encourage infiltration resulting in groundwater recharge and reduced surface water discharge. Naturalized detention basins utilize native plants to provide shoreline and side-slope stabilization. Not only are native wetland and prairie plants more reliable soil stabilizers than riprap and turf grass, additional environmental benefits such as improved water quality, creation of wildlife habitat, and year round beauty are provided.