Too much rain for my rain garden!
Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Susan Reimer
I spent a restless night, listening to the remnants of Hurricane Nicole dump bucket of rain on my thirsty gardens.
And I was NOT comforted.
I was worried about my little rain garden, and whether it could handle the downpour.
I was out at first light to inspect the damage and found that the rain was rushing into the street and taking soil with it.
The "outspout," for want of a better word, had been blasted away and the water was trying to escape the garden any way it could. Much of the soil had been washed away from the roots of the plants in its path.
We certainly don't get rain like this very often -- and certainly not often enough this summer -- but this is the kind of thing the rain garden is supposed to prevent -- the washing of soil into the Chesapeake Bay.
Comments
Wow. Until this moment, I envied you that Rain Garden!
It is still the right thing to do. It just has to be able to handle this much rain! Jack and I will get it right! -- Susan
Posted by: Eve | September 30, 2010 11:07 AM
Susan, gardeners are incurable optimists. (We have to be!)
It is the nature of the beast. - Susan
Posted by: Dahlink | September 30, 2010 6:04 PM