Links to Helpful Resources

Resources for Designing and Installing a Rain Garden
or a Bay Friendly Yard

Government Programs:

Montgomery County: Rainscapes
Washington DC: River Smart Homes

Partial List of Native Plant/Rain garden designers:

Please click here for a complete list of all landscapers who have completed the Montgomery County training course.  Please check all references of service providers.

Below is a list of landscapers who specialize designing for watershed stewardship.

Yolanda Del Buono (Yoli)
gwobonanj@yahoo.com
phone: (240) 506-6914
Rain Garden Design and Installation
Student at the GWU in Landscape Design Master’s program.

Carol Foster Hall
carol.f.hall@verizon.net
Rain Garden Design; advice on plant selections.

Kit Gage
kgage@verizon.net
Site Evaluation; Rain Garden Design; help with identifyng contractors/ volunteers; and with arranging for DEP-provided soil and plants.

Fran McClure
flmcclure@earthlink.net
Rain Garden Design; connections with other landscaping experts and contracting firms.

Holly Olson
hjo1629@hotmail.com
Site Evaluation; Rain Garden Design; Arranging for soil and plants. Student in the GWU landscape design Master’s program.

Jenny Reed
jenny010@earthlink.net
Rain garden design through her firm, naturalresourcesdesign.com.
Jenny and her partner, Lauren Wheeler, work with homeowners, the City of Takoma Park, and the District Department of the Environment designing and implementing LID practices such aspervious paving, raingardens, bio- swales and cisterns.

 

Municipal Programs for Inspiration!

Green Streets Programs Across the Nation

Portland, Oregon: 
www.portlandonline.com/BES/index.cfm?c=44407

New York, New York: 
www.streetsblog.org/2008/02/14/greenstreets-of-new-york-new-and-improved/
www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/trees_greenstreets.html

Seattle, Washington: 
http://www2.cityofseattle.net/util/tours/seastreet/slide1.htm

Federal Green Highways Partnership: 
www.greenhighways.org/