Achieve your environmental goals for your home landscape! Friends of the Rouge will help you plan improvements to your home landscape that could include: rain gardens, pollinator gardens (or other conservation landscapes), rain barrels, strategic tree placement, as well as other essential strategies. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

Membership with Friends of the Rouge has its benefits! Members generally receive discounts on Friends of the Rouge's sales and events. Become a member today, and you'll receive a coupon code that you can then use to receive 15% off all products sold in the store.

NOTE: Purchase your membership BEFORE purchasing other products to ensure you receive the membership discount. You will receive the discount code in your receipt.

Inspirational, educational, and just plain beautiful sign for your rain garden. By posting this sign, you'll be connecting your rain garden to the 1,000 Rain Gardens for the Rouge campaign, and you'll also be helping to support your neighbors to follow your lead by planting their own rain gardens.

You are encouraged to talk to FOTR staff before making your sign purchase. Although it is our goal to visit each and every one of you to see your garden and to help you "plant" your sign, the reality for a small non-profit that serves 467 square miles with 48 communities is that it might take us some time. Our goal is to see EVERY rain garden that is visible to the public get a sign. The costs listed below are not fixed, and cost should never be the barrier for you. We look forward to working with you to find the best way to get you a sign.

NOTE: your rain garden must be authorized by Friends of the Rouge to be allowed to purchase a sign. If you purchase a sign for which you have not been authorized, Friends of the Rouge will reimburse your purchase, less any processing fees. To submit your rain garden request for authorization, please send photos of your rain garden (ideally before / after construction) to RainSmart@TheRouge.org.

Thank you, and happy rain gardening!

Native Plants Kits: 50 Midwestern Native Plants of Ten Species, organized by theme. Themes include: rain garden, pollinator, bird/butterfly, prairie, shade, wetland, and prairie grass. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

A stellar groundcover or specimen grass, Prairie Dropseed is native across a wide range of the United States. In addition to its fine form and yellowy fall color, Prairie dropseed has a pleasant fragrance that some liken to coriander or buttered popcorn. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

One of the most commonly planted native wildflowers, purple coneflower provides long-lasting spectacular blooms to your garden. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

Save water, save money with a 55 gallon upcycled rain barrel. With five available colors, start saving today with the perfect barrel for your home!

Save water, save money with an upcycled rain barrel. With five available colors, start saving today with the perfect barrel for your home! DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

Not getting the kind of water pressure you would like out of your Rain Barrel? Give gravity a little boost with a Rain Barrel Pedestal! DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

Butterfly Milkweed provides a vibrant splash of orange to the mid-summer garden. The most ornamental of milkweeds, this plant performs especially well in hot, dry, sunny locations. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

How do you plan to get the water from your downspout into the rain barrel? Rain water diverters provide one option. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

Built from an Upcycled shipping container, this composter is one of the lowest cost composters available and doesn't require use of new plastic in its manufacture. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

Eliminate back strain with this hip level composter, made from Upcycled shipping barrels. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

This hose is perfect for chaining multiple rain barrels together! DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

Brown Fox Sedge is a power house plant for rain gardens. It survives almost any conditions (light, soil, or sun), and looks great either as a groundcover or as a specimen plant. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

Showy Black-Eyed Susan, AKA Orange Coneflower, is one of the most recognized native plants. The straight species thrives in poor soils, and blooms from mid-summer to the fall. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

Swamp milkweed boasts one of Michigan's most attractive flowers of the milkweed family. The plant performs well on rain garden bottoms. It can be leggy, so be sure to select a facer plant to grow next to it. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

With showy white flowers appearing early in the year (April to June), Foxglove Beard Tongue provides essential early nectar for a variety of bees an pollinators. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.

One of the shorter specimens of the dominant grasses of the midwest's original prairie ecosystems, Little Bluestem looks great in gardens. It provides strong fall color, and creates structure in your garden 9 months out of the year. DID YOU KNOW? You can get a coupon code for 15% off by purchasing a membership with Friends of the Rouge! See below for details.