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 ...

Each gardening season seems to offer new growing challenges. Our gardens are exposed to more drastic and variable weather ...

Some plants were extras following the establishment of a Pollinator Garden, while others were purchased by the Boone County Community Garden Organization. The plants in the rain garden consist of of a ...

To the untrained eye, a rain garden might look similar to any other ornamental garden or intentionally planted space. “It may ...

Homeowners often select native plants to grow in their rain gardens. Indiana native plant species are commonly grown in rain gardens because of their adaptation to the local climate, soils, and many ...

You have options, of course: you can bring some plants inside, but uprooting them and potting them for a day doesn't make ...

“Plants like foxgloves ... palms and tree ferns.” Rain gardens are often occupied by native shrubs, perennials and flowers planted in a small depression. “Studies show rain gardens can ...

Rain gardens are saucer-shaped gardens filled with native, wet-tolerant plants that are designed to collect, filter, and soak up stormwater runoff from roofs, driveways, and lawns that would ...