Water Sensitive Cambridge hosted a community planting event for Cambridge’s first roadside rain gardens last week. The pilot for the city’s rain gardens programme has turned three green verges at Fallowfield into vibrant mini-gardens by cutting two slots into the kerb, allowing rain water to flow in. The runoff infiltrates and recharges the ground water and allows urban habitats to flourish and, say Water Sensitive Cambridge co-founders Clara Todd and Yair Perry, the model is highly suitable to Cambridge’s current climate model of lots of rain over winter, and drought in the summer. “This is o…