Rain gardens are planted with native or well adapted plant species that can tolerate both wet and dry conditions and have deep roots that promote water infiltration. Water should drain completely ...

Its not all work and no play, though. Rain gardens are relatively low maintenance once you get them installed and established ...

For Cheryle Gannaway of Prior Lake, there really was no way of maintaining the grass on hill on the side of her home. The grass was becoming the “pet” she didn’t want – ...

With primary excavation and soil amendments performed by Taylor University grounds maintenance staff and environmental science faculty, the ground was formed into a rain garden. Students and ...

The Scott Watershed Management Organization is hosting three rain garden workshops in April and May to teach homeowners how to design and install a rain garden using native plants: + Saturday, ...

At their workshop meeting Monday night, the Alpena Public Schools Board of Education got into a heated discussion over the ...

Would you like to beautify your yard with showstopping flower blooms and grasses while protecting our lakes, streams, attracting songbirds, hummingbirds and beneficial pollinators like bees and ...

It didn’t take long for volunteers who created a rain garden in Hidden Valley Park to see the fruits of their labor. “Fifteen minutes after we finished, it rained pretty hard,” said Wiley Buck of ...

The leader of a local movement that promotes cultivation of native greenery has volunteered to replant rain gardens in two Logan Township parks — an offer that found favor with the township ...

Well, you have something to worry about cuz that water runoff doesn't just disappear, more often it's carrying pollutants into our waterways and then causing flooding. But no need to worry because you ...

A Rain Garden or "bioretention basin" is a vegetated depression in an urban landscape that collects, treats, and recharges storm water into the ground. Because it is a garden as much as it is a ...