Ivy Hall students plant perennials that will thrive on rainwater
Ivy Hall School in Buffalo Grove is the proud home of a new rain garden, thanks to the teachers and students in the Ivy Hall Community Club.
Students built the garden into natural depressions on the school landscape, so that 90 percent of the water the garden gets will be stormwater runoff.
Community Club students have spent the year learning about the benefits of a rain garden through watershed activity, including a presentation by an EPA representative who explained the effects of water runoff.
After school on May 18, students planted perennials in the newly excavated rain garden. Plants and some other services were donated and the Ivy Hall PTO also provided funding.
Ivy Hall School Community Club students gather around the rain garden as they prepare to plant seeds of varying perennials.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Ivy Hall School Community Club students Aryan Gupta, 8, left, and Joshua Yoon, 9, spread some flower seeds in the rain garden.
Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
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