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Rain gardens are a great choice for wise water management in your garden. Here are three ideas for inspiration.
A rain garden is a green infrastructure project that can improve the quality of stormwater, minimize pollution, and enhance biodiversity and pollinator habitat. Purdue, Iowa State and Illinois-Indiana ...
Rain gardens, green infrastructure initiatives designed to mimic natural systems such as native prairies, help keep urban runoff out of sewers and surface waters, suppressing stormwater’s negative ...
A Rain Garden or "bioretention basin" is a vegetated depression in an urban landscape that collects, treats, and recharges storm water into the ground. Because it is a garden as much as it is a ...
Choose a soggy spot in the yard and plant a rain garden. With a little planning, you can make better use of the water nature provides.
Those interested in learning about the benefits of rain gardens are invited to attend an educational session on Tuesday, March 31.
Rain gardens or bioswales are designed to naturally dose water into the soil system. A typical rain garden is a sunken garden, slightly lower than the surrounding land to allow rainwater to collect.
Abode How a rain garden can benefit your North Texas landscape Using native plants, rain gardens reduce erosion and flooding while adding low-maintenance beauty.
This kind of yard addition can be especially beneficial if you are replacing turf grass. Video shows homeowner's impressive 'rain garden' landscaping design: 'This is awesome' first appeared on ...
The 16th Avenue Tree Lawn Rain Garden is a demonstration of a low-cost, owner-maintained strategy for use of a tree lawn to temporarily store, infiltrate and filter stormwater collected from the roof ...
“No garden is maintenance-free. With native plants, a little less maintenance is typically required, but it’s going to be a different design aesthetic than geraniums and begonias in a neat little bed.
With some teamwork, Rain Dog also helped transform that same residence’s neighborhood (along Eighth Avenue NW). The Puyallup residents applied for and received a grant to redo their street with ...