Stormwater Practices In The Garden

The Garden Club of Newtown host a program about the crucial role of stormwater practices in the garden during a presentation by Jane Didona, principal and founder of Didona Associates Landscape Architects, on Tuesday, March 24, at 1pm, at Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street. The program is open to the public, free of charge.

Stormwater management practices are important to the health of watersheds because they provide opportunities for infiltration and removal of pollutants. Studies have shown that these practices, if designed and sited correctly, can become an asset to the community beyond their original purpose.

Aesthetics and beauty are often considered secondary factors, however. Ms Didona will discuss how these important environmental practices can also become assets.

Her talk will include the use of rain gardens, rain barrels and permeable pavers along with native plants. Her philosophy is that managed correctly, stormwater will nurture the site as well as the humans that experience the site.

A Registered Landscape Architect, Ms Didona holds bachelors degrees in both Environmental Studies and Landscape Architecture and has recently completed a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture in which her thesis topic was “Beauty and the Wet Pond Stormwater Management Practice.”

She has been an instructor of Landscape Design at the New York Botanical Gardens and Western Connecticut State University and has written articles for a number of trade magazines and periodicals and is a frequent speaker and panelist for seminars and other groups.

For more information contact Garden Club of Newtown president Beth Caldwell at 994-4849.