Check out this video about the Rain Garden and Adena Brook Clean-up!

Howdy Friends and Neighbors–

We’re active and happy in Texas! Here’s a post to let you know I began a blog titled Environmental Gleanings. I just posted a short video on the Adena Brook Rain Garden.

Sending well wishes,
Susan

Susan Michael Barrett

A endangered species medicinal rain garden is going in at the Beuter home, 600 Glenmont Avenue. The location is their front yard. The original plan was to plant tomorrow (June 20th) but the thunderstorms today cause a change in planning.

Please stop by next Saturday, June 27th, for the planting. Jim Roberts from Watershed Organic Lawn Care will be available to answer your questions. The Beuters welcome visitors.

Donations from The Michael Hazelroth Rainy Day Fund support this garden.

Join us!

Jim Roberts of Watershed Organic Lawn Care will install a shade rain garden at the Beuter home, 600 Glenmont Ave., between 10:00 a.m and 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 20th.

This rain garden is funded through the Michael Hazelroth Rainy Day Fund.
Judy Robinson
judyrob59@gmail.com

James Kutnow writes:

Below is an announcement that we recently posted in our parent newsletter. If you think that there are members of the Adena Brook Community that would be interested in chipping in for our “Planting Day”, we would be honored and very grateful.

Thanks!

WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Please come and help on “Planting Day” for The Rain Garden at The Graham School on Saturday, May 16th.

We will begin at 8am. Food and Drinks will be provided! If you can, please bring your work gloves, a shovel and garden rake!

Scioto Gardens is a thriving Central Ohio nursery emphasizing native species and specializing in new varieties not commonly available from local sources. 

We have provided plants for several rain gardens and restoration projects for Friends of Alum Creek and Tributaries (FACT), Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed (FLOW), and Franklin SWCD, among others. We want to be strong partners in these types of projects throughout Central Ohio. 

We are happy to provide plants for community projects at wholesale prices. We can also provide custom grown products for large projects. In addition, we operate a retail outlet where individuals can be directed to find a wide variety of native plants. 

On our web site we have a plant list with descriptions of plants that we grow. Sizes, prices and availability vary through the year. We can email an availability list when needed.

Please keep us in mind for your projects big or small. If you have any questions for us or would like a tour of our facility, please call or write at your convenience.

Michael and Linda Johnson
Scioto Gardens
3351 State Rt 37, W
Delaware, OH 43015
Phone/fax: 740-363-8264
www.sciotogardens.com 

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VIDEO – Slow rainwater down – Soak It In

Washington, D.C. - Jan. 15, 2009) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Botanic Garden produced an on-line video, “Reduce Runoff: Slow It Down, Spread It Out, Soak It In,” that highlights green techniques such as rain gardens, green roofs and rain barrels to help manage stormwater runoff.  

The video highlights green techniques on display in 2008 at the U.S. Botanic Garden’s “One Planet – Ours!” Exhibit” and at the U.S. EPA in Washington, D.C., including recently completed cisterns.

Locations of rain gardens in the Adena Brook neighborhood:

Adena Brook Rain Garden at High and Overbrook – 1000 square feet

Cunningham Residence, 670 Glenmont, Columbus – 300 square feet

Graham School, 3950 Indianola Avenue, Columbus – 1000 square feet

Kemba Credit Union, N. High Street, Columbus – 400 square feet

Here are some of the plants in the Adena Brook Rain Garden:

False aster

Turtlehead

Spotted Joe-Pye weed

Sneezeweed

Cardinal Flower

Great Blue Lobelia

Monkeyflower

Riddell’s goldenrod

Blue vervain    

Tussock sedge

Swamp milkweed

Culver’s root

Ox-eye sunflower

Halbred-leaved rose mallow

Question: If you live on Canyon Drives, North, South and Northeast Lenappe Drive, let me know by sending an email to susanbarrett@columbus.rr.com if you would be interested in having a rain garden installed along the street in front of your home. The more rain gardens we install in the neighborhood, the more we reduce the effects of erosion due to stormwater runoff