Manor Green Park outside the Selsey Centre is prone to becoming waterlogged in low lying areas following heavy rain. The Manor Green Park Rain Garden is being created by Lizard Landscape to help offset the problems that sometimes develop when areas of the playing field flood. The MPP co-ordinated the project and worked with\u00a0Selsey Town Council in 2015 to obtain funding\u00a0 from the WSCC\u00a0Operation Watershed Active Communities Fund<\/a>. The garden design is by Lizard Landscape who also produced the Sensory Garden in Manor Green Park. Planting and maintenance will be managed by the Manhood Wildlife & Heritage Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is a Rain Garden? In its simplest form, a rain garden is a shallow depression, containing absorbent, yet free draining soil,\u00a0planted with vegetation that can withstand occasional temporary flooding. Water drains into these man-made basins from impervious\u00a0areas, like roofs, driveways, or compacted grass.\u00a0Rain gardens are designed to mimic the natural water retention of undeveloped land, and are more efficient at absorbing excess water from hard surfaces such as garden lawns or playing fields.<\/p>\n

Excess rain water drains\u00a0firstly into\u00a0what is essentially a flower bed, and\u00a0continues to drain slowly into the surrounding soil instead of flowing into the drainage system. They can be designed for specific soils and climates.\u00a0 A Rain Garden also disposes of excess water through transpiration. This is the process where a plant takes up water through its roots, and finally returns water to the atmosphere by evaporation from its leaves.\u00a0 Native, water tolerant plants are\u00a0recommended for rain gardens because they are more tolerant of the local climate, soil, and water conditions. Biodiversity gains enormously because they also attract wildlife.<\/p>\n

A Rain Garden Guide has been produced by leading experts in the field of water management, and is supported by both the Environment Agency and Southern Water. The guide introduces you to Rain Gardens and talks about why and where you might like to create your own. A whole garden can become a rain garden, and each component of the whole can become a small-scale rain garden in itself.<\/p>\n

Follow this link to download the Rain Garden Guide<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow this link to\u00a0find out\u00a0more about Rain Gardens <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manor Green Park outside the Selsey Centre is prone to becoming waterlogged in low lying areas following heavy rain. The Manor Green Park Rain Garden is being created by Lizard Landscape to help offset the problems that sometimes develop when areas of the playing field flood. The MPP co-ordinated the project and worked with\u00a0Selsey Town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":115,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3180\/revisions\/3184"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}