Native Landscaping: Street Edge Rain Garden and Park Landscape Plan
| Dates: | October 31, 2008 |
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| Time: | 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
| Location: | 104th and Hillcrest Kansas City, MO |
| Fee: | $45, includes lunch |
The second class will include the planting of a rain garden at a community park, designed to catch runoff from the adjacent community center building. The site is located at 104th and Hillcrest. The class will also review opportunities to incorporate stormwater management features into the park and add native landscaping elements to help control runoff in that area.
The class will start indoors with lecture and questions and answer period, followed by outdoor hands-on planting activities. Participants should wear appropriate outdoor work clothes, and bring garden tools – a trowel or shovel – to help plant.
- Strategies to reduce stormwater run-off with native landscaping solutions
- Sustainable design principles
- Locating and designing rain gardens
- Soil percolation testing and sizing rain gardens
- Native plant selections for rain gardens and stormwater management features
Instructors:
Instructors from this class include David Dods, an environmental engineer with URS Corp. in Overland Park, Kansas. Dods is an advocate of “green” stormwater management and sustainable design projects, and has designed or built rain gardens ranging from residential gardens to municipal streetscape projects and Jennifer Blattman, a natural resourse specialist with the Mid-America Regional Council.
Registration:
- Register online and pay with a credit card
- Register online and pay with an agency purchase order
- Call 816/701-8234
- E-mail gti@marc.org
