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Rain that fell Thursday was welcome at the corner of Frankstown and Lincoln avenues in Pittsburgh's Larimer neighborhood.It gave the creators of a new rain garden a chance to see it in action.See ...
In order to showcase the benefits of rain gardens, a walking tour of five gardens is being held on Thursday, July 14.
The rain garden was planted in the north corner of the space to stop runoff from puddling on the sidewalk. Philip DeVencentis is a local reporter for NorthJersey.com.
A rain garden is an easy way to store the water your hardscape sheds as runoff by letting it sink into the soil and recharge groundwater.
From this concrete wasteland of broken-down surface parking lots will emerge a sustainable rain garden, sweeping green lawns, more than 200 trees and, perhaps most delightful, “ghost mammoth ...
Too much rain has a measurable effect in the garden, not all of it negative. The vegetable garden is the most dynamic corner of the gardening world - where else can you have three gardens in one ...
The rain gardens will have the capacity to filter 43,000 gallons of runoff during any given storm. The BID installed four other rain gardens at the corner of 19th and L streets in 2014.
A rain garden proposed to be built on the grounds of Highlands Middle School at Broadview Boulevard and California Avenue in Harrison would include seating, educational signage, a gravel path and ...
Water works: Rain gardens are a beautiful way to fight street flooding Susan Langenhennig Sep 4, 2014 Updated Jul 19, 2019 4 min to read ...
Even the Germantown Friends School has a demonstration rain garden on site. “At first it [the garden] was sparse and I was worried,” said Ruth Seeley a Germantown resident recalling her first ...