Hi Karen! Nice to see you here. Sorry for the delay in responding. I can't see your photos. Hmm.

And a month later, I'm back with an update and questions. :) Finally located most of my needed plants a couple of weeks ago, and then it took almost 2 weeks to do all the digging. Here is my husband working on the digging, with some help from my cat, lol: Here it is leveled and ready for planting: The inlet freshly installed, but not yet buried: And here it is mostly planted, with some empty spaces left for the plants I have yet to acquire (and the edging for that top portion): Which brings me to my questions. :) 1. If you look closely, you can see at the bottom of the most recent photo the edge of the concrete walk. The berm pretty much starts right at the walk, which I did not plan but it seemed like it needed to happen that way because that edge of the garden is about 3 inches lower than the top edge. (Top of the photo.) I felt like it needed that extra reinforcement, instead of leaving the 6" flat at the edge. You can see the blue eyed grass I have planted there, BUT...I think I need more? It seems like if it rained really hard right now the edge of the berm would start to erode away. 2. Take a look at this photo, I tried to take it so you could closely see the inside of the berm: (I just noticed the photobombing golfball in there, lol...I don't even know, lol) So the depth of the berm is about 8-9". I'm worried that the whole thing is going to erode *down into the bottom* even with the mulch on it. So my question is this: Can I mulch this with leaves instead of something more chunky, like woodchips? I'm thinking the leaves, if I water them down after placing them, will hold things in place better. Should I plant more in the sides of the berm? Thoughts? Thank for any and all ideas. :)

Along the fence is an option . . .

Hi Joni, I know this is an old post, but how did your rain garden turn out? :)