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Wildlife Rain Garden

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  • Garden weaves rain water through the garden from the roof and rain planter on the left to the pond on the right

    Garden weaves rain water through the garden from the roof to a natural pond

  • Sketch of the wildlife rain garden.

  • Journey rain takes into the garden from the roof

  • Galvanised rain planter takes rain water from the roof via a rain chain

  • Rain planter overflows into a dry river bed 

  • Rill takes rain water to the natural pond

  • Natural pond with varied depths, shelves and dead wood for diversity

  • Pond overflows into a rain garden in the foreground

  • Wildlife garden centring around creative water management from rain planting, dry river beds to a pond and rain garden.

    Wildlife garden centring around creative rain water management from rain planter, dry river beds to a pond and rain garden. 

Wildlife Rain Garden

This wildlife garden weaves and celebrates rain through the scheme. The downpipes from the existing roof used to drain straight onto the sandy ground by the house. Now rain runs through the garden via a rain chain, galvaniseed rain planter, water butts and rills all leading to a wildlife pond. When it is really wet, the pond overflows and filtrates into the ground in a rain garden.

As a wildlife garden, biodiversity is enhanced through rich planting and structural elements such as log pile walls. The rain planter and rain garden have plants that suit their aspect and conditions of drought and wet such as tufted hair grass, primrose, bugle and ferns. The wildlife pond and margins have only native aquatic plants. As well as biodiverse sustainable urban drainage, SuDS, the garden is complemented with edible planting around a picnic table, with an apple tree, espalier cherry, blackcurrants and alpine strawberries. Herbs are placed in the sun just outside the kitchen back door. The small lawn is species-rich in wild flowers. Along the back, native woodland planting merges the garden into a wood which is a home for red squirrels.

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