The second Rain Ready Webinar dives into designs and what native plants to use for planted LIDs.
Rain Ready Webinar Series: Design and Integrating Plant Communities
Green Venture’s Rain Ready webinar series explores the process of adding a Low Impact Development (LID) feature to your backyard, whether it is a rain garden, permeable paving, rainwater collection or others. This webinar focuses on:
- Calculating the size of your LID feature.
- Preparing your site plan.
- A deep dive into the options for native plantings based on appropriate ecological communities
Watched the webinar and want to learn more about the topics covered?
Halton Region Master Gardeners and Hamilton Pollinator Paradise both have local, specific blogs on how to design and maintain your garden according to municipal by-laws.
Planting in a Post-Wild World served as a foundation for the second webinar about designed plant communities. Also available from the library!
The Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (or STEPS) is a program run by Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, Credit Valley Conservation, and Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority. They maintain an incredibly thorough wiki page on all things Low Impact Development (LID) related and an excellent set of plant resources, including databases of plants they have used and studied in LID case studies.
Lastly, Credit Valley Conservation has an excellent pdf of native plants to use in LIDs.
Missed the webinar and want to watch the recording? Email us at [email protected].
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