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Rain Gardens
Reeves-Reed Arboretum
165 Hobart Avenue, Summit, Union
County, New Jersey 07901
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Site Contact:
Madeline Flahive DiNardo, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Union County
History:
This rain garden installation was designed to be the training portion of the Rain
Garden Training for Professional Landscapers. This is one aspect of the Stormwater
Management in Your Backyard program.
Type of Runoff Managed:
This rain garden manages runoff from the Education Center of the Reeves- Reed
Arboretum.
Installation:
Approximately forty professional landscapers, Master Gardeners, Rutgers
Cooperative Extension Water Resource Program staff and facultyand
interested stakeholders helped to install this demonstration rain garden for the
Rain Garden Training for Professional Landscapers, under the Stormwater
Management in Your Backyard program.
Plant Layout:
Rain Garden Map Coming Soon!
Plant List:
Arrowwood Viburnum
Blue Flag Iris
Highbush Blueberry
Inkberry Holly
Red-osier Dogwood
Shasta Daisy
Soft Rush
Sweet Pepperbush/Summersweet
Virginia Sweetspire
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fact sheets.
Maintenance:
The rain garden is maintained by the Master Gardeners of Union County.
Photographs:
Click here for photographs of the Reeves- Reed Arboretum rain garden.
