Beginner Gardening: help with drainage issue, 1 by rteets

rteets wrote:
I want to do some landscaping around my mailbox. However, the yard drains where I want to put my bed. The picture shows it. The lawn slopes down to a rock and cement drain that goes under the driveway (which you can't see in this picture) Can I just put a drain underneath the mulch that will be there for the short distance between the edge of the bed and the cement? My husband thinks it will be a disaster and the mulch will just run into the drain and clog it up (the drain is about 2 feet in diameter. Its big).