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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Rain Gardens vs. Traditional Gardens At first glance, admirers of your yard might not realize it features a rain garden. It often resembles a traditional landscape with a large flower bed filled ...

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 ...

A typical rain garden captures 600 gallons of water from one inch of ... Surveying by the office is underway and later local landscape architects at InSite Design Studio will complete the ...