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 ...

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

Rain gardens are planted with native or well adapted plant species that can tolerate both wet and dry conditions and have deep roots that promote water infiltration. Water should drain completely ...

To overcome this, the rain garden slopes from level ground to a 6” deep trough. The area receives full sun. The plant species were selected for full sun tolerance. All plants are native to Illinois ...

The Scott Watershed Management Organization is hosting three rain garden workshops in April and May to teach homeowners how to design and install a rain garden using native plants: + Saturday, ...

So, it (water) kind of sheds off that like it would if it was concrete," Nash said. "When you're putting in native plants that have much deeper roots, a lot of these plants that you put in these rain ...

The 16th Avenue Tree Lawn Rain Garden is a demonstration of a low-cost ... The garden design was created to address both functional and aesthetic requirements [attach garden design document].

Well, you have something to worry about cuz that water runoff doesn't just disappear, more often it's carrying pollutants into our waterways and then causing flooding. But no need to worry because you ...

One wild life: Johnson draws on amazing experiences to write short stories Rain garden projects get supervisors’ approval The leader of a local movement that promotes cultivation of native ...