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Rain Garden Advisor

A flood is made from millions of drops adding up.

Flood mitigation is built one garden at a time.

Give the rain somewhere to go.

A rain garden is a shallow dip in your yard, planted where the water already runs — it catches what pours off your roof and driveway before it races to the storm drain.

What it does

  • Your yard drinks it in instead of drowning.
  • Roots and soil strain out oil, fertilizer, and grit before they reach the creek.
  • Flowers throw a pollinator party.

When everything's paved, rain has nowhere to sink. One rain garden soaks up thousands of gallons a year — a whole block of them is how a neighborhood stops flooding.

Another rain storm (July)
Backyard rain garden

How it works

  1. Enter your address — we pull your rainfall and growing conditions.
  2. Answer a few quick questions — soil, sun, space.
  3. Get your plan — how big, how deep, what to plant, done.

A beginner-friendly, dig-it-yourself way to pitch in on stormwater.

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About Me

I'm Jess — a home gardener who's put in two rain gardens of my own, one soggy season at a time. This advisor is what I built once I had the sizing math and plant logic dialed in: the same processes I use, turned into something anyone else with a yard and a downspout can run themselves.