Beginner Gardening: Wet area, sometimes..., 1 by marie_kap

marie_kap wrote:
I have a similar problem. The back of my yard is lower than the house and during the heavy rain season it will flood and stay rather wet. Ferns love it and so does Hosta. But then if it is a dry season, I have to keep it watered. I have noticed that some plants like the rhododendron was showing signs of too much water this past August and Sept, when all it did was rain and it is up higher than the rest.
This a draft of my back yard looking to the back. All that back area will and can be covered in water. We have a sump pump installed in the left side of yard, to pump the water out to the woods beside us.The far left was under shade until this fall after we had a few trees taken down. Now it will be mostly sun to partial sun. My gardening will change there now.