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Plants for the Rain Garden. Mike Andruczyk VCE-Horticulture Agent Chesapeake. What is a Rain Garden?. Runoff control Pollution filter Alternative to a BMP Beautiful landscape feature. Alders American Elm Arborvitae Bald Cypress Dawn Redwood* Fringetree Hackberry Pawpaw Pecan
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Plants for the Rain Garden Mike Andruczyk VCE-Horticulture Agent Chesapeake
What is a Rain Garden? • Runoff control • Pollution filter • Alternative to a BMP • Beautiful landscape feature
Alders American Elm Arborvitae Bald Cypress Dawn Redwood* Fringetree Hackberry Pawpaw Pecan Pin Oak Red Buckeye Red Maple River Birch Swamp White Oak Sweet Bay Magnolia Sweetgum Sycamore Tuliptree Water Tupelo White Cedar Willows* Yellowwood Trees
Anise Shrub Blueberry Buttonbush Carolina Allspice Chokeberry Dogwoods Elderberry Fothergilla Inkberry Ninebark Summer Sweet Swamp Azalea Swamp Rose Sweetspire Viburnums Waxmyrtle Winterberry Yellowroot Shrubs
Beebalm Bluestars Cardinal Flower Culver’s Root Crinum Lilies* Daylilies* Ferns Ginger Lilies* Iris* Ironweed Joe Pye Weed Ligularia* Lizard’s Tail Marsh Marigold Meadowsweet* Pickerel Weed Rain Lilies Rodgersia* Rushes Rose Mallow Sea Oats Sedges Sneezeweed Spiderwort Swamp Milkweed Swamp Sunflower Bog Sage* Taros* Turtlehead Virginia Knotweed Perennials
Baby Blue Eyes Calendula* Drummond Phlox English Daisies* Forget-me-nots* Lobelia* Porterweed Primroses* Scarlet Runner Beans* Sweet Peas* Annuals
Mike Andruczyk VCE-Horticulture Agent 310 Shea Drive Chesapeake, VA 23322 757-382-6348 757-382-6665 fax mikeand@vt.edu Thank You!