Story Title: Building Raingardens.
Episode: Ten.
Date: January 30th 2010.
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane.

Raingardens can easily be built at home using Melbourne Water’s 5 easy step-by-step instruction sheets; How to build a raingarden available at www.melbournewater.com.au/raingardens. These instruction sheets tell you what materials are needed, which plants to use, and provide approximate costs to build your raingarden.

Register your raingarden with Melbourne Water via their website and be a part of the exciting Healthy Waterways 10,000 Raingardens Program. By registering, you will be helping to build 10,000 raingardens, and doing your part for the environment by contributing to cleaner and healthier waterways.

Featured Products:

• A good hardware store will stock all materials needed for your raingarden, including plants, sand and plumbing materials.

• Bulleen Art and Garden stock a large variety of garden supplies, plants, garden art and hardware items. Landscape supplies, including sand, materials and gravel mulch for your raingarden, can all be found at Bulleen Art and Garden.

• A certified plumber must be used for stormwater connections and modifications. If you are in the Melbourne Metropolitan region, we recommend Sustainable Plumbing Solutions for all your plumbing needs. Sustainable Plumbing can also provide plumbing materials for your raingarden.

• If you don’t have the time to build a raingarden, let V.I.P Home Services do it for you.

• You can be creative with your raingarden design and make it a real feature in your garden. However, if you need assistance with your raingarden design or wish for someone to design it for you, Botanical Traditions can help.

• A planter box for your raingarden can be made from a variety of materials. For a more modern look, build your raingarden in a corrugated steel planter box. Envirocare Solutions can offer corrugated steel planter boxes in a variety of colours and sizes to suit your home.

• Facey’s Nursery is a wholesale nursery carrying the Tree and Shrub Growers of Victoria labels. You can get all your plants for your raingarden through your local retailer.

Click here to view factsheets on some top raingarden plants.

-Anigozanthos Bush Pearl
-Anigozanthos Bush Diamons
-Dianella Kentlyn
-Desert Flame

 

CLICK HERE for your chance to WIN A RAINGARDEN – Best New Raingarden Competition.

Contacts:

V.I.P
Phone: 13 26 13
Website: www.mylocalvip.com.au

Sustainable Plumbing Solutions Pty Ltd
Phone: 1300 855 277
Email: info@sustainableplumbing.com.au
Web: www.sustainableplumbing.com.au

Botanical Traditions Pty Ltd
Phone: (03) 9012 5386
Email: info@botanicaltraditions.com.au
Web: www.botanicaltraditions.com.au

Envirocare Solutions Pty Ltd
Phone: 1300 720 733
Web: http://www.envirocaresolutions.com.au

Bulleen Art and Garden
Phone: (03) 9850 5155
Email: info@baag.com.au
Web: www.baag.com.au

Melbourne Water
Address: PO Box 4342, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001
Phone: (03) 9235 7100
Fax: (03) 9235 7200
Email: raingardens@melbournewater.com.au
Website: www.melbournewater.com.au
Website: www.melbournewater.com.au/raingardens

Tree and Shrub Growers of Victoria
Website: www.ngiv.com.au/tree_shrub
Email: ngiv@ngiv.com.au
Tel: +61 3 9576 0599

Facey’s Nursery
Website: www.faceysnursery.com.au

Express Bins Pty Ltd
Email: raingardens@melbournewater.com.au

Win a raingarden To enter, click here