Hi Paulsia. That is indeed the challenge for these types of plantings.....the need for the selected species to be able to withstand a lot of "bounce" in water levels, from inundation to hot and dry. There are really a lot of plants that have been recommended for this usage. Just a couple more for you to consider/try: Sweet flag-Acorus calamus, Iris virginica, Marsh marigold-Caltha palustris, Carex (sedge) species of many types, Polygonum amphibium-water smartweed............oh, was that more than a couple? +oM

We are on a well and we have a Grohe Relexa Five with the head tilted from the arm on the wall. It's working really well for us - no garden hose effect. No problem rinsing hair. Of course, we don't have as much water pressure as someone with city water.

I had lots I didn't get to plant yet too. It actually didn't rain here yesterday it was a nice day but got cold last nite. It is 58 rite now. This is almost July. Potatoes look the best. Cabbage and broccoli are making okay heads I guess, but I feel they are growing so slow but that is due to late frosts and not enough sunshine. I can only get a handful of carrots to come up I'm sure the seed got washed away. Beans grow ing slow. Tomatoes growing slow. Peppers I only have one kind doing anything, that is Hungarian black they have beautiful purple flowers. Other peppers are same size as when I transplanted them. Eggplants too. I planted lots of dwarf tomatoes in strategies and they look okay. Okra are tiny not gonna do nothing. Strawberry are good but now I'm discovering I have some Asian spotted fly and I think it is in my raspberries too. My blueberries look good have unripe berries. Everything is late. Usually by now id have a ton of squash and zukes and cukes. These plants are tiny. Fingers crossed for good warm weather with normal rain fall, destructive winds, hail, and storms to stop. Anyone know a good recipe for grass cuz that's mostly all that's growing. I guess I'll cook it on my compost pile.

Your only job when you build this rain garden is to make sure that the rain garden bottom is at least 4 inches *deeper* than the pipe. Use this calculation: The ~20' of pipe has to slope downward, so that the water makes it to the rain garden. So figure out how much that pipe needs to drop. Here is a quick calculator that calculates the *bare minimum* of drop your pipe needs to have. For safety, I would double it. https://www.builderscalculator.com/drain-pipe-slope-calculator/ For your 20 feet of length, I get 2.5 inches of pipe drop. Double that, and you get 5 inches. Plus the depth of the rain garden (4 inches) and you get your digging depth: 9 inches. If you want to live dangerously, you could dig a bit less - but No Shallower Than 6.5 inches! This is measured from where you think the bottom of the pipe will be once they build the patio. This might be pretty deep. At least 8 inches deep. So that gives you a total of 9+8=17 inches deeper than your ground level near the house. How to measure that where the rain garden is? Put up your stakes with a string between. String it where the pipe will start and finish - ground level near the house, and level it with a line level. Then measure down 17 inches from the string where you will be building your rain garden. It can be this deep, OR DEEPER. Deeper is fine. It just can't be any shallower than this. And since the ground slopes away from your house already, you won't have to dig the whole 17 inches. It will be less than that. All that sounds do-able - don't you think? :)