What is a rain garden, and how does it work? Rain gardens, sometimes called bio-retention areas, are shallow depressions in the landscape that capture stormwater and allow it to gradually percolate ...

If you said yes, we encourage you to think about installing a pollinator rain garden on yourproperty. A pollinator rain garden is a small, depressional garden that collects rainwater from your roof, ...

News Photo by Reagan Voetberg The Alpena Public Schools Board of Education discusses various matters at its workshop meeting Monday night. ALPENA — At their workshop meeting Monday night, the ...

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 ...

Rain would funnel down the attached chains into buckets and containers. This rainwater could then be used to water gardens and plants and even filtered for cooking. As well as being a visual feature, ...

Daily Acts is leading a free tour Jan. 25 through three home landscapes that feature rain gardens, which capture rainwater to prevent runoff and replenish the groundwater in your landscape.

The Resilient Urban Systems & Habitat (RUSH) Initiative, a collaboration between different local organizations, is leading a project to map 1 000 rain gardens on southern Vancouver Island. Rain ...

In partnership with the Resilient Urban Systems and Habitat (RUSH) Initiative, Grade 11 and 12 Royal Bay Secondary School students have been making a note of local ‘rain gardens’, which help absorb ...

Phoenix could see as much as a half-inch of rain this week, but months of drought have parched the landscape. Homeowners can protect yards and gardens by learning how to water properly ...

One landscaper, proud of a rain garden they had installed, shared a video of it on the r/landscaping subreddit and opened up the discussion to questions. "Ask me about rain gardens!" they wrote. "This ...

All avid gardeners know that a successful garden always begins with well-established soil. Proper tillage will keep the ground free of weed yet aerated. But the hassle of tillage majorly comes from ...