Boggy ground - Plant ideas/help please

Hi, Im new here so please be gentle, Im no gardener .
We have a static caravan up at Bridlington, we have drain/down pipes at the corners of the caravan, water basically just comes off the roof down the pipes and onto the grass, meaning the ground can get very wet and boggy especially at this time of the year.
We are able to dig an area beneth one of the down pipes the size of a paving slab (no bgger due to site rules), is there any plants that would be ideal for this area? or would getting a large planter and filling it with sand and gravel and some small plants work? or any other suggestions?
Lindsay

 

Hostas like it good and wet but obviously nothing to see in the winter. Some of mine were completely submerged for about 2 months due to a blocked culvert. I thought they wouldn't survive and rot...wrong they are fine and beginning to start into growth.

 

I have a wet area in my garden and I planted Zantedeshia authiopica. It went nuts and trebled in size! Seems to have made it through the winter ok as well.

 

Hallo Lindsay,
to Gardeners Corner. I think the idea of a pebble garden with a few Cacti in the top (above where the water doesn't reach) might be fun. Which way - East, West etc. will this area, at the bottom of the down pipe, face?
Jenny namaste

 

Young / small plants won't drink enough water to make enough difference I'm afraid.

Best best is to dig a hole the size of a paving slab, as deep as you can (and at least 2 feet provided that won't destabilise the area your caravan is sitting on) and fill it with rubble, and then put some gravel on the top to look nice. Even if the water fills it up, and it floods the area nearby, the "soak-away" will let the water percolate into the sub soil, and that will then drain the "flood" from the surrounding area more quickly than if you didn't have a "drain" like that.

When we have torrential thunderstorms our front drive is covered in water several inches deep, but there is a pipe under it which goes to just such a "soakaway" and within 10 or 15 minutes all the standing water is gone, even in the worse wet weather we have ever had here.