Identify a low section of your yard — or choose a location where you want to create one. Make sure that utilities are not ...

As the vibrant hues of October leaves begin to carpet your garden, it’s the perfect time to embrace water management trends that not only enhance your landscape’s beauty but also contribute to ...

A rain garden and accompanying dry stream bed, designed and installed by Carrie Dubberley of Dubberley Landscape, turned out to be the solution. “It looks a lot better than the mud pit that was ...

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 ...

Homeowners looking to enhance their landscape this year while managing stormwater have options available. Green infrastructure options include permeable pavement, rain barrels, large trees, green ...

While the traditional elements of Japanese gardens—stone, water, gravel, pruned pines, and asymmetry—are rooted in ...

Not only is this beneficial to the plants in your yard, it can eliminate flooded areas in your landscape design. “The goal of a rain garden is really about infiltrating runoff from from whatever ...

The team delineated the degree to which rain gardens mimic prairie-like conditions and ideally, although rain gardens are small, patchy and randomly placed on the urban landscape, it is possible that ...

But there’s another panacea that’s likely more cost-effective than all the others: a rain garden. Proof that it works? The City of Seattle, after installing test gardens, found this hydrophilic ...

Think of rain gardens as corrals for rainwater. They give the water a place to sit until it can seep into the earth. In the ...