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katesflowers said:I agree with Christopher.
We live in a rural area. We have a 7 foot deep drainage ditch that runs along our road, and appears to be on our property, but is really county property. We installed a culvert so we could drive over it to get to our house, when we first developed the property and built our home.
Across the road from us, our neighbors have a smaller swale, like yours. When it rains, their swale fills with water and drains down their side of the road until it pours into our bigger ditch, eventually draining into the Great Lakes.
Again, their swale (and probably yours too) was created when the county developed the roadway.
You should call your county road commission and ask if you can landscape that swale.
If they say OK, then I recommend hosta planted on the banks leaving the swale open for water flow. Hosta is hardy, a perennial, has pretty blooms, and pretty carefree.
Good luck !

I just looked up hosta. It looks really nice. Crazy colors, too, like something from an alien world. Are there really ones with dark blue leaves? Crazy!