The finished project!

As some of you may remember, back in October 12,000 Rain Gardens and the Seattle Garden Club worked together to install a planter rain garden in the Laurelhurst neighborhood.  A galvanized water trough was turned into a rain garden which would capture run off from roughly 200 sq. feet of contributing area. While the planter rain garden turned out to be a beautiful addition to the homeowner’s yard, the original methods we used to put together the rain garden were not successful. The homeowner experienced issues with the rain garden’s functionality and drainage.

We recently revisited the site and made some changes to the planter rain garden in order to get it to manage stormwater properly. Through this process of installing and then re-designing the rain garden, we learned a lot about how to successfully put together a planter rain garden. We have put together a document which explores this process and shares the steps that were used to create this planter rain garden. We hope that our Rain Garden Planter Project Guide will be useful to others who are interested in designing and installing their own planter rain garden.