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Tour The New Rain Garden At Lasdon |
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Posted by Westchester.com
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
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 Mt. Kisco, NY - Take a stroll around one of the newest features of Westchester’s largest publicly owned arboretum and learn an environmentally friendly way of dealing with occasionally wet areas of your own yard during a walking tour of the Rain Garden, Sunday, October 5, at Lasdon Park, Arboretum and Veterans Memorial in Somers.
Beginning at 2 p.m., Lasdon horticulturist Tolly Beck will take visitors on a tour of the garden, which features many beautiful ornamental perennial plants and shrubs that are planted along a shallow, dry streambed. When it rains, water from the nearby Lasdon Memorial Garden runs off into the streambed where it collects and slowly seeps into the ground, providing needed water to the new plantings. The rain garden helps in “recycling” rainfall, renewing groundwater and reducing flooding and erosion.
Admission and parking are free.
Lasdon Park, Arboretum and Veterans Memorial is a 234-acre park and arboretum featuring many species of trees, shrubs and perennials, and is home to the Lasdon Memorial Garden, the Garden Shop and the Famous and Historic Tree Trail. It can be reached via I-684, exit 6. Head west off the exit; the park is approximately four miles ahead on the left. Or, take the Taconic State Parkway to Route 202/Route 35 exit; the park is 3.5 miles ahead on the right.
For general information about Lasdon, call (914) 864-7268.
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