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Retention Basins: Some of you may live near a man-made basin for collecting rainfall. It may not be the loveliest pond to look at with its angular sides and stark lawn or stones. We can plant appropriate and beautiful native plants down the sides and around the basin in order to make it look more inviting, natural and more like a wetland area than a bleak water feature.

Toby loves to romp along the paths we constructed around this basin. Beside the Canadian geese (which Toby loves to chase), this area is the home to some beautiful white swans. Click here to see more of this retention basin in St. Charles.

Spring-blooming wildflowers that I use for sunny locations are: Prairie Alumroot, Heuchera richardsonii Foxglove Beardtongue, Penspenon digitalis Sand Coreopisus, Coreopsis lanceolata Ohio Spiderwort, Tradescantia ohiensis Blue Wild Indigo, Baptisia australis Prairie Smoke, Geum triflorum Blue Flag Iris, Iris virginica shrevia

Stout Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium angustifolium Canada Anemone, Anemone canadensis Shooting Star, Dodecatheon meadia Prairie Phlox, Phlox pilosa Prairie Violet, Viola pedatifida Golden Alexander, Zizia aurea

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