Your personal goals will help guide your rainscaping choices. Which of these would you like to accomplish?
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What is RainScaping?
Why RainScape?
Benefits & Goals
How to RainScape
What Do You Know About Your Site? Is a Rain Garden Right for Your Site? Design & Build a Rain Garden Select Other RainScaping Options Select Plants
Landscaping Options:
Lawn Alternatives Soil Amendments & Mulching Yard Management Woodland Restoration Creek Corridor Vegetative Buffers Rain Gardens Vegetated Bioswales Rock Weirs & Filter Socks Rainwater Harvesting Permeable Pavement Green Roofs
Resources
The Missouri Botanical Garden RainScaping Guide is partially funded by the Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation and US EPA Region 7 through the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (subgrant number G11-NPS-15), under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act.