J Kolenovsky wrote:

With an impervious hardscape surface next to the wet spot, you could
have a "rain garden" situation.
You will probaly need an under laymnet drain and a wall drain to be
sucessful.
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/news...02/01/a10.asp. This
could be a cool project.

That's an interesting idea. Looks like a layer of rock,sand, then
soil. I'm assuming those for filtration as well as drainage. I could
try to do a section like that and see what end-of-season looks like

DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound
2nd year gardener