Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...
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 ...
Stormwater that runs off buildings and paved streets frequently carries high levels of pollutants into rivers and lakes, some of which serve as sources of drinking water. Rain gardens, green ...
North Jersey Resource Conservation and Development and Rutgers University Cooperative Extension – Water Resource Program will be hosting a Rain Garden Design and Rebate Program for residents in ...
YOU MAY FIND yourself in a beautiful house. With a beautiful wife. You may ask yourself, “Where does my rainwater go?” Even if you aren’t a Talking Heads fan, you should be asking that question. It’s ...
If you have an area in your yard that regularly collects water after a downpour, you can turn it into a landscaping asset by ...
Susan Pang was logging the mandatory volunteer hours needed to become a Missouri master gardener at the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center in 2010 when a gift changed her landscape for life. “I got my ...
Rain gardens reduce your risk of flooding with a little help from Mother Nature. Learn how a properly positioned planting can keep rain away from your house. Joanne Dale/Getty Images Gardens can be ...
SPRINGFIELD - Landscape Architect Tom Benjamin and Ecological Designer Keith Zaltzberg will cover the basics of rain garden design and construction through a hands-on workshop 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The 16th Avenue Tree Lawn Rain Garden is a demonstration of a low-cost, owner-maintained strategy for use of a tree lawn to temporarily store, infiltrate and filter stormwater collected from the roof ...
The demonstration rain garden in Bartholomew County is located on the IUPU Columbus Campus in a parking lot island and had previously been a flat and open, windswept area occupied by turf grass ...