Would you like to retain more precious rain on your property to benefit your plants and soil? As our climate warms and rain events change, learning how to contain rain and slow run off from your property is critical to creating resilient gardens.
Join Horticulturist Liz Rowe to learn how a rain garden can help each raindrop stay longer and go further in supporting your garden to thrive in a changing climate.
In this session, Liz will guide you through:
- The urban water cycle. In flows, outflows and everything in between.
- Tips for sustainable use of water on and in your patch.
- Rain gardens. What are they? How do they work? What are the benefits?
- Rain garden design. Technical information to help you choose the right design and build your own.
This Masterclass provides you with practical advice and skills to “slow the flow” of rain and plan your own rain garden: from design and placement, right down to choosing suitable plant species.
All sessions are recorded and those booked in will receive the recording link which is active for two weeks. Friends of SGA receive a 15% discount on Master Class full price tickets. You can become a Friend of SGA here. Green Garden Professional (GGPs) receive a 30% discount.
Details
You will learn
- What they need to do to start a rainwater garden
You will get
- Free access to recording for 2 weeks
Appropriate for
Gardeners who want to learn more about slowing the flow and installing rainwater features
Preparation
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Your Teacher
Liz Rowe is a qualified horticulturist, vocational (TAFE) trainer, and plant care specialist with a strong focus on promoting sustainable practices in domestic gardens. Liz works with Sustainable Gardening Australia in the community workshops program bringing education on sustainable gardening practices to the broader community.
Organized by
Sustainable Gardening Australia
662 reviewsSustainable Gardening Australia (SGA) is a not-for-profit non-government organiation dedicated to achieving a healthy biodiverse planet.
Its driving purpose is to:
- Encourage, educate and enable home and professional gardeners to adopt sustainable gardening practices to protect or enhance the natural environment;
- Provide information, education and undertake research about the natural environment;
- Reconnect people to the natural world through gardening; and
- Ensure an understanding of the impacts that gardening decisions about chemical and resource use have on the natural environment well beyond their neighbourhood.
Hi Paul, we are thrilled to hear you enjoyed Rain Gardens 101. We always try and provide practical and applied content in our Masterclasses, so that's great to hear.
So great that you found Rain Gardens 101 so inspirational, Arwen! Good luck in your endevours to spread the word about this simple yet powerful design practice to conserve water in our gardens and green spaces.
Cancellations & Refunds
If the organiser cancels the class:
You are entitled to a full refund.
If you can't attend the class:
Terms & Conditions
SGA’s Booking Conditions
- Bookings are considered final once payment is made and no refunds will be given for non-attendance.
- If there are insufficient numbers for an event it may be cancelled or postponed by SGA. If this is the case, you will be notified and given the option of either a full refund or a transfer to a different SGA event of equivalent value.
- Please arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled starting time for registration and seating
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