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Basically these gardens are usually made using old rain gutters.
The premise of rain gutter gardening is that any length of rain gutter makes a useful garden container.
Perfect for small spaces you can also use them to create privacy or for decoration.
Prairie ironweed likes full sun and is hardy in zones 3 7.
This is a variant of the freestanding gutter garden but you get more space for your plants as it can fit up to six 9 to 10 foot gutters.
Talking about outdoor gardening real estate.
The rain gutter garden can be made with different small rooted plants.
In mid to late summer it is topped by purple flowers.
This gutter garden design offers the most space to grow strawberries lettuce herbs spinach and other greens with shallow roots.
These are easily upcycled and repurposed into planters in a variety of clever and inventive ways.
Not every plant is suitable for rain gutter gardening but plants that have shallow root systems and don t require much space do wonderfully in a rain gutter garden.
Other ironweed species also make good rain garden plants.
The name is a misnomer however.
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They re a magnet for pollinators including hummingbirds and their stiff stems make them useful as cut flowers.