A rain garden is a planted low area that allows rainwater runoff to soak in from hard surfaces like roofs, driveways, walkways and parking lots. A rain garden: Removes pollutants from water before it ...

We want to introduce you to a new tool to improve drainage. Read on to learn how to build a rain garden. A rain garden is basically a plant pond, that is, a garden bed that you plant with special ...

Explore your options at an Illinois Extension Rainscaping course to learn about the details of siting, building, and maintaining your own. Explore an exemplary public space rain garden on the ...

Before building your rain garden, make sure you’re far enough away from your home (and your neighbors', for that matter).

Rain gardens are a nature-based solution which can mitigate both extreme wetness and dryness by slowing the flow of water, ...

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 smartphone app named “Rain Garden” is designed to help people plan and build rain gardens across America. It is now customized with a specialized list of plants suited for Indiana. Through video ...

If you are using native plants, once established, your rain garden will require little to no water or no fertilization. You can also visit Family Handyman for a guide on how to build a rain garden, ...

The goal of the Stormwater Management in Your Backyard program is to empower volunteers to educate their communities about the benefits of rain gardens. The purpose of this Rain Garden Outreach Manual ...

Located in the Lloyd District on Portland's east side, the garden consists of a series of planted water basins and basalt spillways designed to collect, clean, and retain all stormwater runoff from ...

Students at a Colwood school are taking time out from mapping their futures, to help build a map which could be “critical” in ...

The city says it’s confident the rain gardens are addressing a crucial problem that the Ohio EPA needs to fix.