Groundwater Guardians
for the Marshfield Area

2nd Community Rain Garden
House of the Dove, 613 Western Ave, Marshfield WI 54449

Site Preparation Day - May 21, 2004..........Final Work and Planting Day - May 25, 2004


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Rain Garden House of the Dove Power Point Presentation

Click here to view the Rain Garden Design by Groundwater Guardians

Volunteers:
 Keri Dieringer, Jerry Tetzlaff, Terri Hamus, Cathy Lotzer, Jim and Mary Asplin,
and Wood County Master Gardeners Ron and Linda Bodien, and Dan and Dorothy Flees

Plants donated by:
 Jim and Mary Asplin, Terri Hamus, Groundwater Guardians for the Marshfield Area, and Carol Wrabl Wood County Master Gardener

All funding for materials provided by Groundwater Guardians for the Marshfield Area.
Costs include: Stone edging $66.75, Stepping Stones $30.00, Plants $50.42, Garden Mix Soil $23.00, Mulch $44.25 = TOTAL COST $214.42 (not including donated plants)

1st Community Rain Garden
Griese Park

Mission Statement

"To build a demonstration Rain Garden to reduce pollution, increase groundwater recharge and to promote and inspire Rain Garden creation in other locations such as residential areas, parks, businesses, and schools."

Site Preparation Day: Wednesday, June 11, 2003


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Rain Garden Power Point Presentation

Planting Day: Saturday, June 14, 2003


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Rain Garden Planting Power Point Presentation

Volunteers:
 Marilyn Hansotia, Kris Keogh, Cathy Lotzer, Chris Lotzer, Pete Lotzer, Ed Englehart, Dave Wasserburger, Jerry Tetzlaff, Barb Tetzlaff, Daniel Bliven, Ron Dickrell, Joni Dickrell, Derrek Caflisch, Orin Toltzman, Terri Hamus, Mark Hamus, Val Eiden, Lee Babcock, Sue Meyer, Kent Mueller, Cindy Mueller, Sheri Thomlinson, Paul Herder, Joan Herder, Emily Herder, Cathy Zimmermann, Donna Prepeluh, and John Peters.

Rain Garden Plants:
1-Nodding Onion, 2-Praire Smoke, 3-Grant Blue Lobelia, 4-Anemone False Rue and Wood, 5-Yellow Coneflower, 6-Fringed Loosestrife, 7-Columbine, 8-Purple Coneflower, 9-Wild Geranium, 10-Lanceleaf Coreopsis, 11-Prairie Dropseed, 12-Obedient Plant, 13-Sweet Joe Pyeweed, 14-Prairie Alumroot, 15-Culver's Root, 16-Queen of the Prairie, 17-Cardinal Flower, 18- New England Aster, 19-Early MEadow Rue, 20-Boneset, 21-Virginia Bluebells, 22-Wild Petunia, 23-Golden Alexander

Links to additional information on Rain Gardens:
Rain Gardens Rain Garden Brochure Rain Gardens Rain Gardens Rain Gardens Rain Gardens Rain Gardens

News Herald Article from June 13, 2003

Here's a map to our Rain Garden location: