A water’s edge garden might be a rain garden to safely percolate rainwater back into the aquifer, or a pond habitat for native frogs and toads, or a higher destiny for a stormwater drainage ditch, or a retention pond border alive with dragonflies that deters Canada geese from becoming a nuisance.
Neat boundaries between lawn and wetland plantings help this garden blend into a residential setting.
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Flowers
Grasses
| Carex stricta | Tussock sedge |
| Juncus effusus | Soft rush |
| Panicum virgatum | Switch grass |
| Sorghastrum nutans | Indian grass |
Shrubs
| Cephalanthus occidentalis | Buttonbush |
| Ilex verticillata | Winterberry holly |