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 ...

The kind of soil in your rain garden is very important. The soil needs to be porous enough to soak up water within 48 hours to prevent plants from drowning and mosquitoes from breeding. This is also ...

Some plants were extras following the establishment of a Pollinator Garden, while others were purchased by the Boone County Community Garden Organization. The plants in the rain garden consist of of a ...

To the untrained eye, a rain garden might look similar to any other ornamental garden or intentionally planted space. “It may ...

Homeowners often select native plants to grow in their rain gardens. Indiana native plant species are commonly grown in rain gardens because of their adaptation to the local climate, soils, and many ...

Rain gardens are a depressed vegetated area that use rainfall and stormwater runoff as irrigation. Rain gardens capture and hold water, usually through the use of native plants. By using highly-porous ...

The Red Oak Rain Garden is home to nearly 60 native plant species. Explore plant placement in the garden with this interactive map. We're Social. Follow us. Learn more about rain gardens and native ...

Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challeng­es. Our gardens are exposed to more drastic and variable weather with changing weath­er patterns. Floods, droughts, wind, temperature extremes ...

In communities where there is not sufficient land for large-scale stormwater management like wet ponds, rain gardens are a great alternative. A rain garden is a landscaped plant bed that captures and ...