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Water gardens as water retention areas

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Joined: 5/31/2008
Location: South Florida - Zone 9B/10
Posts: 528
Posted: Jun/30/2008 8:36 AM PST

My husband and I are planning a new larger veggie garden area and a paver patio area. The patio will be next to the house so we need to be mindful of drainage. He wants to put a drain line under the patio and run it the side yard to drain into the swail. It occurred to me that we could run it into a water garden/retention type of area and use it for irrigation. Does anyone know if this would work? Anyone done anyting like this? We will also be using a rain barrel at another corner of the house.

Karen B
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