Tours showcase environmental benefits of rain gardens
Shannon Freix stands by her backyard rain garden in Kalispell on Wednesday, July 6. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
A sign at the corner of Shannon Freix's backyard rain garden for the Flathead Rain Garden Initiative, a collaborative program between the City of Kalispell and Flathead Conservation District on Wednesday, July 6. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
A bee stops to pollinate fleabane flowers in Shannon Freix's backyard rain garden in Kalispell on Wednesday, July 6. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Fleabane flowers bloom in Shannon Freix's backyard rain garden in Kalispell on Wednesday, July 6. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Shannon Friex installed a rain garden in her Kalispell home three years ago and has never looked back.
“I don’t have to mow, I don’t have to fertilize, I don’t have to do all these things that I would have to do with a regular garden or a patch of grass,” she said...
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