Welcome to the home of Fort Wayne's rain garden program

As part of the City's effort to improve the quality of our three rivers and the streams that feed them, Fort Wayne hopes that home owners, businesses and institutions will build rain gardens. A rain garden is a landscaped area that holds rain water runoff for a few hours to a few days. Rain gardens are planted with native plants that help the soil soak up more water. These plants may improve the quality of the water that does runoff.

Looking for Rain Garden Plants?  Fort Wayne City Utilities has teamed with a new local business that is selling locally grown, native perennial plants.  Riverview Nursery will hold a native plant/rain garden plant sale on May 25, 2013 with free refreshments and give-aways.  Get details.... 

	You may qualify for a cash payment as part of Fort Wayne's Rain Garden Incentive Program. Read more.....
	Rain Garden "How-To" workshops have been scheduled for 2013.  See the schedule...
	If you already have a registered Rain Garden and want to show off your work,  you can send us pictures! Mail to: City Utilities, 200 E. Berry Street, Suite 270 OR email to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
	As of March 2, 2011 we have a total of 99 Rain Gardens registered out of our goal of 1,000.  You could make it 100!  Check out the rain garden photo of the week.