I love your plant selections! This will be really beautiful and colorful. Sounds like a plan!

(MRG Days 4/5) Here's the final layout we decided on. There was some compromise on using familiar/easily-accessible plants, namely the catnip. The overall goal with the layout is to give the best view to the house (to the west/left, see site map in previous post). The plants are generally arranged short-to-tall so that everything is visible from the house (and dry-to-wet to account for the site moisture). Water conveyance is shown in posts 2 & 3, all overland from roof -> ground -> across lane -> rain garden/turf. We're intentionally not filling the entire space for 2 reasons: 1. We want to see how much this garden helps with the wetness in this area and how the wetness affects the plants. This isn't the only garden on the property - if this addresses the standing water, then expanding it will be lower priority. 2. We want to let the plants mature and fill in the area naturally-ish and adding plants from other gardens.

Intended planting list: Callicarpa americana (American Beautyberry) Hibiscus grandiflorus (Swamp Rose-mallow) Baptisia australis (Wild Blue Indigo) Panicum virgatum (Switchgrass) Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's Root) Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)

Going to go ahead with this plan I drafted earlier for my neighbor. They went out to one the nursey in Westland and got the plants so I plan on working on the rain garden later today.