Bayscape Tour and Rain Garden Preview
Bayscapes and Rain gardens are a beautiful AND functional solutions to stormwater runoff. Learn how to create one!
Bayscapes replace lawn with native plants that support wildlife, reduce landscape maintenance, and filter rain water from your yard, driveway, roof, or other hard surfaces.
A rain garden is a water-loving garden that helps soak up rainwater from your roof, driveway, or lawn. It is designed to capture water from a 1″ rainstorm and slowly infiltrate it back into the ground. By using native flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees, a rain garden can beautify your yard while reducing standing water. Rain gardens also provide habitat for:
- Birds
- Pollinators
- Other beneficial insects
Join Gunpowder Valley Conservancy (GVC), a Baltimore County-based land trust and watershed restoration nonprofit, for a Bayscape Tour and Rain Garden Preview. The workshop will include a brief presentation on both garden types, alongside a tour of previously installed GVC gardens. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the benefits of adding a bayscape and/or rain garden to your yard and how to keep it beautiful and functioning as it matures.
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What to expect: Dress for an outdoor workshop (hat, sunscreen, sturdy shoes) and bring your own water bottle.
Location: Camp Chapel United Methodist Church (5000 E Joppa Road, Perry Hall, MD 21128)
Questions? Contact Sydney (swest@gunpowdervc.org)
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This workshop is part of the Clear Creeks Project. Coordinated by Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, the Clear Creeks Project is a grant-funded, citizen-based initiative that helps answer a community desire to restore the water quality of the Gunpowder Watershed. Additional funding provided by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; Chesapeake Bay Trust; Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability; and Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund, administered by Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
