Relocate to Wisconsin : Spring into a Rain Garden In Brookfield Wisconsin

  While the snowflakes may still be drifting into snow banks outside...let your mind wander to thoughts of spring which really IS just around the corner...or that's what the calendar says !  

    We encourage our sphere in our newsletter to contract with landscapers now for retaining walls, trees planting, garden plots, hedges and bushes they may wish to add to their landscape.

   In Brookfield, a Waukesha county suburb, the city encourages residents to plant Rain Gardens. Sooo...what is a Rain Garden ?       It is a sunken garden 4 - 8 inches deep
   • Has a flat bottom
   • It measures about 1/3 the size of the area draining to it –
      usually 75 - 300 square feet in size
   • Can be formal or informal in design
   • Drains within two days, so it does not  provide
      breeding grounds for mosquitoes and other insects
   • Utilizes native plants to better infiltrate the    water    

                                         Why use native Plants?                             
                                      Native plants have  root sysrms that grow  twice as deep as the plants are tall, native  plants are very efficient at absorbing water which is their purpose in this eco-friendly nature display.

“Rain Garden How-To Manual”