Nearly half of American homes are at severe or extreme risk of facing at least one type of climate-related natural disaster, ...

So whats the solution? Plant a rain garden! No, a rain garden wont necessarily solve all your planting problems, but its one ...

Also, avoid building your rain garden over a septic system or where the seasonally high water table is less than 2 feet from the surface. Any time you dig in your yard, you also need to confirm the ...

Of course, there is also the beauty of adding more garden space to your yard. You may have heard of residential rain gardens ...

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 – ...

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 ...

The 16th Avenue Tree Lawn Rain Garden is a demonstration of a low-cost, owner-maintained strategy for use of a tree lawn to temporarily store, infiltrate and filter stormwater collected from the roof ...

When we get these breaks, I drop everything to be outside in the garden. Here’s everything you should do on sunny winter days. Rain, snow, and wind can ruin all the nice lines of your yard.

A rain garden is a type of bioretention, constructed as a shallow depression to hold and infiltrate water from rooftops via downspouts, driveways or other impervious surfaces to reduce polluted ...

The smartphone app named “Rain Garden” is designed to help people plan and build rain gardens across America. It is now customized with a specialized list of plants suited for Indiana. Through video ...