But the general rain garden needs a base area of small rocks or sand. The EPA has a database that can help determine what plants might work best in a rain garden depending on your area. How To Build ...

A dry creek rain swale in a suburban garden landscape. (Alicia Springer/Contributed) Plants that tolerate winter moisture and summer drought line the banks of a swale.

Rain gardens, of course, are only part of the solution; a 10-foot-wide depression in the ground won’t solve, say, the drivers of climate change or environmental racism, and it can’t on its own ...

Water can be directed from the house to the garden directly across the lawn (taking advantage of a gradual slope), through a trench filled with rocks or through an underground pipe. Spencer says a ...

Mary-Carson Stiff, Executive Director of Wetlands Watch explains how rain gardens work to filter runoff and shares plants she likes to grow. Featured on VHG episode 2402; April 2024. Virginia Home ...

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The Larimer rain garden was actually designed and built back in 2019 and 2020. Thursday was a chance for them to hold a ribbon-cutting and see it all in action.