Creating Your Rain Garden

​Ready to start planning a rain garden or looking for resources? 
​See the information below and get started! 

Friends of the Rouge ​Resources

Rain Garden Guidance
Step-by-step design manuals for Michigan Rain Gardens
https://therouge.org/diy-rain-garden-guidance 

Where can I purchase supplies?
See Friends of the Rouge website, a great resource for rain garden suppliers, download their PDF

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The Washtenaw County Water Resources

Offers robust information and online certification in rain garden creation:

• ​Online Master Rain Gardener Certification 
• Rain Garden Guide for Homeowners (PDF) - Washtenaw.org
• Master Rain Gardeners Handbook (PDF)

Where can I buy plants and seeds for my rain garden?

​NOHLC bi-annual Native Plant Sale
Second Saturday in June and 1st Saturday after Labor Day
Wildtype Nursery

• Michigan genotype native plants, grasses, shrubs, trees

Michiganense Natives

• Micro-nursery specializing in wildflowers and their seeds, native to the Great Lakes region.

Ypsilanti Native Plant Nursery

• Michigan genotype native plants

Feral Flora

• Michigan-native plants from wild-collected seed. 

East Michigan Native Plants (Formerly Designs by Nature East)

• Michigan genotype native wildflowers and grasses

Better Finds Nursery

• Michigan Native Plant Nursery offering Specimen & Architectural Grade Native Michigan Perennials & Ferns

Plants for Ecology

• Michigan Native Plant Nursery

Michigan Wildflower Farm

• Michigan genotype native seeds

Designs by Nature South

• Contact Brian Vanpatten designsbynature.south@gmail.com  810-618-2529
• Native plants of Michigan Genotypes​

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Rain Garden Contractors

Native Lakescapes - Clarkston, MI
Natural Shorelines, Sustainable Riparian Buffers, Indigenous Plants and Grasses, Bio-engineering Practices, Creating Diverse Habitats, Design and Installation
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Appel Environmental Design - Ann Arbor, MI
Design, digging, planting, burns, maintenance. 

PlantWise Native Landscapes - Ann Arbor, MI
Design, digging, planting, burns, maintenance, invasive plant control. 

Feral Flora - Ann Arbor, MI
Design, digging, planting, burns, maintenance

Creating Sustainable Landscapes, LLC - Novi, MI
Design, digging, planting, maintenance

Native Plant Nursery - Ann Arbor, MI
Native plant nursery, design, planting

Halcyon Earth & Sky - Lakeland, MI
Design, digging, planting, lakeshore plantings

Updated as of: 10/2021