Saw a rain garden in Grinnell that changed my mind about drainage

Visited my sister in Iowa last month. Her neighbor had this shallow ditch full of native plants instead of the usual gutter pipes. Water from three roofs pooled there after a storm, then soaked in within an hour. My yard floods every spring. Always thought French drains were the only answer. Now I'm ripping up my lawn to copy that design. Anyone here build a rain garden on clay soil without it turning into a swamp?

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