So many people have wetlands in their yards and don’t even know! “This spot in my yard is always soggy and wet! How do I fix it?”
They will of course tell you to install a French drain. DO NOT DO IT! Plant Wetland plants and allow it to helpfully absorb puddles of heavy rain and give you the gift of beauty!
It makes me so sad how many wetlands were destroyed.
And the wetlands remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it as peat! We need more of them to mitigate climate change!
land developers: *Destroys the homes of salamanders, frogs, and rare plants to build a housing development on top of what once was a Wetland*
land developers: Why is this land so wet?!?!
If you have the wet soggy spot in your yard you should be filled with pride and contentedness, because you have the ability to grow a special class of cool plants (the Wetland Plants) that others of us can only dream of and sigh after.