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Private: Missouri Botanical Garden offering RainScaping Prize Drawing
Posted on behalf of the Missouri Botanical Garden
RainScaping consists of an array of sustainable landscaping practices that a landowner may employ to relieve rainwater-related problems. In addition to rain gardens and bioswales, a diverse landscape that includes trees, shrubs, perennials, mulch and amended soils intercepts and disperses rain as it falls, and allows more water absorption into the soil and by plants.
For a limited time, Missouri Botanical Garden is offering a RainScaping Prize Drawing
Anyone can simply go to www.mobot.org/rainscaping by February 11, 2014 for a chance to win a $500 gift certificate for Shaw Nature Reserve’s Spring Wildflower Market in May! Or win one of these other fabulous prizes generously donated by local businesses:
- 10 flats of GT-38 Deep Cell Plug Native Plants and site visit from DJM Ecoscapes valued at $1,000
- Plant material for a shade or full sun rain garden by Horstmann Brothers valued at $400
- 10 man hours of labor for either a landscape/rain garden design or labor towards installing rainscaping or invasive species removal from Simply Sustainable Landscaping valued at $350
- Any rain barrel in stock up to 150 gallons valued up to $449 from Rainwater Harvesting Supply Company, LLC; or a rustic natural stone bench (pictured above), installed from Luna Landscaping, LLC valued at $450.00
Each of these prizes will also include a $50 gift card from Sherwood’s Forest Nursery and Garden Center.
Learn more about rainscaping and enter the drawing here.
For our friends in St. Louis County in the Deer Creek Watershed
In addition, landowners in 19 participating municipalities, including residents, schools, churches, and businesses are eligible to take part in a RainScape Rebates Program. This voluntary program financially assists landowners in the Deer Creek Watershed wishing to landscape their yards to improve stormwater management. Rebates of up to $2,000 are available, and the application deadline is February 12, 2014. Visit www.deercreekalliance.org to learn more.
RainScape Rebates is funded by Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation, Great Rivers Greenway, Missouri Department of Conservation, participating municipalities, and US EPA Region 7 through the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (subgrant number G11-NPS-15), under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act.
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