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Creating a Rain Garden

  • Native Plant Selection (Satinflower Nursery)
  • Plants for Residential Rain Gardens
  • Rain Gardens: A How-to Manual
  • Building a Rain Garden (CRD)
  • Rainwater Rewards Program (Victoria)
  • Rain Garden Handbook
  • Rain Garden Design, Benefits, and Plants

Collecting Rainwater

  • Rain Barrel and Cistern Supplier Lists (CRD)
  • Rainwater Harvest Calculator
  • What is Rainwater Harvesting? (CRD)
  • Rainwater Management Standards (Victoria)
  • Rainwater Harvesting Guidebook (Nanaimo)
  • Collecting Rainwater At Home

DIY Activities

  • DIY Rain Barrels
  • DIY Rain Barrel and Diverter
  • Create Your Own Rain Chain
  • DIY Rain Barrels with PVC Piping
  • 23 DIY Rainwater Harvesting Systems
  • DIY Rain Gauge Experiment

Other Rain Garden Projects

  • Cougar Creek Streamkeepers
  • North Shore Rain Gardens
  • 12,000 Rain Gardens in Puget Sound

Local Consulting Professionals

  • Satinflower Nurseries
  • Wilder Restoration
  • Murdock de Greeff Inc.

Landscaping/Garden Supply Stores

  • Borden Mercantile Co. Ltd
  • Wildwood Outdoor Living Centre
  • Saanich Tuf-Turf Ltd
  • Peninsula Landscape Supplies

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Bowker Creek, also known as ‘Thaywun’ – ‘Coho salmon stream,’ and its watershed are on the ancestral lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən people, known today as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. We respect, honour and are inspired by their vital relationship with these lands and waters and how they have stewarded them through countless generations, continuing to the present and into the future.

Mailing Address:   1557 Yale Street  •  Victoria, BC V8R 5N5  •  Canadian Registered Charity #75703 4681 RR0001

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