Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Rain Gardens Workshops 3/17 & 4/21


Rain Gardens 101 Workshops

These workshops are FREE. Register now and learn how you can do it yourself! Register online at www.emswcd.org/workshops-events/register-for-a-workshop

Learn how to contain that rain! Rain gardens add beauty to your yard and can help restore overloaded urban streams at the same time. Taught by professional landscape designers, this workshop provides step by step details on how to build your own rain garden. You’ll learn how to determine soil suitability, calculate impervious surfaces, determine the correct size and location for your rain garden, choose appropriate plants, take a short field trip to a nearby rain garden and much, much more.

Saturday, 3/17
9am – 1pm
Tabor Space in Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church, 5441 SE Belmont, Portland, OR 97215
·         Hosted by Mt. Tabor Neighborhood Association


Saturday, 4/21
9am – 1pm
Southeast Uplift - 3534 SE Main St., Portland, OR 97214