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[[File: Altonraingarden2_kb.jpg|thumb|Rain garden on residential lot in Alton, ON.]]
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Whatever the choice of style, it is essential that the surrounding context is taken into account. While a planting design can have a natural appearance, the landscape should never appear haphazard or messy. The aesthetic goal is to achieve a visual sense of fit and scale with the site. The design should be intentional, appropriate and pleasing to the eye and consider the following:
Whatever the choice of style, it is essential that the surrounding context is taken into account. While a planting design can have a natural appearance, the landscape should never appear haphazard or messy. The aesthetic goal is to achieve a visual sense of fit and scale with the site. The design should be intentional, appropriate and pleasing to the eye and consider the following:
===Plant Installation===
===Plant Installation===
Planting with plugs, pots, caliper tree or shrub stock or sod is preferable over broadcast seeding approaches. Seeding requires stormwater practices to be kept off-line for a period of time following planting to allow germination and plant establishment to occur, and to be irrigated in the absence of adequate rainfall to ensure success.
Plants should be kept in their containers until they are to be installed, which should take place as soon as possible upon completion of the [[grading]] and installation of drainage structures. In addition to the planting plan, plant installation details for herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees should be followed per municipal and landscape industry standards, specifications, and guidelines. Avoid staking unless necessary (ie. vandalism or high wind exposure). If staked, then the ties should be a biodegradable web or burlap and removed after the first growing season. If any plant substitutions are required, then the contractor or contract administrator should defer to the designer or municipal agency to make the substitution.
Plants should be kept in their containers until they are to be installed, which should take place as soon as possible upon completion of the [[grading]] and installation of drainage structures. In addition to the planting plan, plant installation details for herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees should be followed per municipal and landscape industry standards, specifications, and guidelines. Avoid staking unless necessary (ie. vandalism or high wind exposure). If staked, then the ties should be a biodegradable web or burlap and removed after the first growing season. If any plant substitutions are required, then the contractor or contract administrator should defer to the designer or municipal agency to make the substitution.
If broadcast seeding is the chosen planting approach, the practice should be disconnected from the drainage area for the duration of the plant establishment period (e.g., first growing season) and seeded areas should be protected with biodegradable erosion control matting to protect seeds from erosion by wind and water.
==See Also==
==See Also==
*[[Plant lists]]
*[[Plant lists]]
*[[Bioretention]]
*[[Bioretention]]
*[[Bioswales]]
*[[Enhanced grass swales]]
*[[Green roofs]]
*[[Rain gardens]]
*[[Stormwater planters]]
*[[Stormwater Tree Trenches |Stormwater tree trenches]]
*[[Swales]]
*[[Swales]]
*[[Bioswales]]
*[[Vegetated filter strips]]
*[[Trees]]
*[[Wetlands]]
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