It was designed to collect rainwater from just one roof section of the home. (Other rainwater was directed to other parts of the design.) This rain garden was a curving, organic shape designed to ...

Rain gardens should always be at least 10 feet away from home foundations to prevent the risk of water damage and to conform with building codes. Don’t forget to include any neighboring ...

This native of North America forms does well in moist, medium to wet clay soil, so rain gardens offer the ideal conditions.

You want to be about 10 feet — and downstream — from your home to avoid water damage to your foundation. If you have a septic tank, try to place the rain garden at least 50 feet away.

Managing stormwater is a difficult and expensive challenge, particularly in the built environment of urban areas such as Greater Columbus, where so much of the environment is covered with ...

Make it rain. Rain funnel off roofs ... There are new organizers revving up the Home and Garden Show for Birmingham this year. Marketplace is taking over and boosting efforts to make it more ...

A rain garden is a type of bioretention, constructed as a shallow depression to hold and infiltrate water from rooftops via downspouts, driveways or other impervious surfaces to reduce polluted ...

When planted in low-lying areas that collect standing water after a downpour, they serve as rain gardens ... with standing water at his Broadmoor home. Because the entire backyard had been ...

Rebekah Binns says she is delighted with the rain garden at her home in Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood. It’s filled with soft rush grasses, perennial geranium ‘Rozanne’, native ...

which is near his home — potentially with help from state grants, he told the supervisors. Both rain gardens were originally stocked with appropriate vegetation by the contractors that ...