Rain Gardens for the Pacific Northwest: Design and Build Your Own

by Zsofia Pasztor, Keri Detore, Jill Nunemaker (Illustrator)

Rain pounds the Pacific Northwest, gushing through dirty downspouts, across chemically treated lawns, over oily streets and through public storm drains into bays, rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands where nature struggles to survive among the pollutants. It’s a problem caused by population density and it’s one that you can help solve.



Rain Gardens for the Pacific Northwest shows you how to trap and filter dirty water safely in your yard―and how to do that with a beautiful addition to your home. Zsofia Pasztor, a Certified Professional Horticulturalist, shares what she’s learned over the years experimenting with rain gardens in the challenging clay and hardpan soils of the region. The book answers questions that Zsofia regularly encounters in her workshops,



• Can I build a rain garden myself?

• Can a rain garden be too big or too small?

• Can I create a low-maintenance rain garden?

• Will my rain garden attract mosquitos?

• How do you know if your infiltration system is in a “safe” location?

• If my rain garden isn’t working (e.g., not draining), how can I fix it without starting over?



With photos and illustrations throughout, lists of best plants, and a comprehensive resources section, this easy-to-use guide shows Northwest gardeners, homeowners, and DIY-ers how to plan, design, install, and maintain their own healthy, natural, and beautiful rain garden.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

Published January 10, 2017

Reviews

[Claire Hardwick · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good resource for understanding the fundamentals of building and designing rain garden systems. Easily comprehensible

[Heather Gilbert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Living in the PNW is a dream come true - yet the constant mire of my backyard is NOT. This book is a good starting point, as well as a middle and end. It had great ideas, diagrams and directions - as well as a wealth of informative narrative that digs a bit deeper than landscaping books usually tend to.

Highly recommend for any that all the Upper Left hand Corner home.

[Geckojen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent, thorough resource!

[Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh boy! This will be helpful for a nice retirement project. It makes me absolutely sick to see rain running down the street where we live in a desert with a terribly polluted river not really able to take any extra yucky stuff. So, rain garden to the rescue. If everyone would do this, the earth would be happier.
Such an inspirational book for people who value water.