Transform your outdoor space with a stunning rain garden. Discover top ideas to create a sustainable and vibrant garden that helps manage stormwater runoff.
When you plant a rain garden, you do your part for the environment, filtering runoff and protecting groundwater. Pick the right plants and you're also rewarded with a beautiful garden!
A rain garden in Maryland. | Photo by Amanda Rockler As rain pours down rooftops, through gutters, across lawns and into culverts, it collects pollutants and carries these toxins and bits of trash into local rivers and streams. Along the way, rain collects in depressions in the landscape, which often
The cities of Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon have been early leaders in using storm water management tools that incorporate compost. David McDonald, Shanti Colwell and Henry Stevens BioCycle March 2012, Vol. 53, No. 3, p. 39