A rain garden is a landscaped swale designed to hold and capture storm water until it can percolate into the soil. Rain gardens have become extremely popular, if not required, ...

Rain gardens can be relatively easy fixes when perimeter drainage issues threaten the foundations of buildings, as well. It is very simple and cost-efficient to attach a short diverter to the bottom ...

A rain garden is basically a plant pond, that is, a garden bed that you plant with special deep-rooted species. These plants help the water rapidly seep into the soil, away from your house and out ...

Runoff may flow into a rain garden from a swale or pipe, or may simply run in from a sloping yard. Why You Need an Herb Garden Read More. How to make a rain garden. Before ...

Rain gardens and bioswales are similar, but not exactly the same type of garden feature. Either can be both useful and attractive in a yard or garden. Learn more about the rain garden and bioswale ...

Last week in this column we suggested creating a swale in your home garden to capture rain and practice effective water conservation. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 92°F.

The swale moves the water to the rain garden to thoroughly soak into the soil...A properly constructed swale will channel the rainwater, slow the movement, and provide environmental benefits.

A rain garden is a type of landscaped area with appropriate flowers, grasses and other vegetation that catches rainwater from a roofline or gutter system and filters it back into the ground, where ...

A dry creek rain swale in a suburban garden landscape. (Alicia Springer/Contributed) Expand. By Alicia Springer | UC Master Gardener of Butte County. PUBLISHED: December 9, 2022 at 3:30 AM PST.

The rain garden at the end of the newly carved swale and in front of the prairie grass meadow that protects a wetland forest down the hill behind the grass, at the Lehman Sanctuary.

A project on two southeast Parma streets may show residents throughout town how they might control storm water and stop flooding ecologically. It might even mean cost savings for residents now ...