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Highbush Blueberry Rain Garden
Fall 2005, Highbush Blueberry Rain GardenThe Highbush Blueberry Rain Garden provides not only delicious blueberries for wildlife and humans, but includes other moisture-loving plants with aesthetic and habitat benefits. The garden was tricky to install due to the asphalt swale that was there previously. A good-sized area of asphalt was removed with the help of a group of Midshipmen from the Naval Academy. However, since this was too much for volunteers to do entirely by hand, a bobcat was used to remove the bulk of the material. Students from Adams Academy, as well as other volunteers, planted this garden.
Three biologs (rolled, biodegradable, coconut fiber) were added to the Highbush Blueberry Rain Garden to help slow the flow of water down the slope. These provided separate sections for plantings as noted in the plant list below. The garden is the sole filtration device for the entire back parking lot for Adams Academy Middle School.
Site designed by Adams Academy students with assistance from Zora Lathan and Thistle Cone.
Pictures:
Click on the thumbnail image below for a larger picture and description
Size: 1,185 square feet
Plant List:
(1st Section)
- Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
- Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)
- Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
- Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
- Black Chokeberry (Photinia melanocarpa)
- Button Bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
- Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
- Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)
- Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
- Red Twig Dogwood (Cornus sericea)
- Inkberry (Ilex glabra)
- Northern Bayberry (Morella pensylvanica)
- Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)
- Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
- American Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
