Carefully designed rain gardens can help funnel water to a designated area and keep it out of basements and storm drains.

'Rain gardens need proper soil structure that facilitates water infiltration instead of accumulating water. You need to mix in sand and organic matter to improve drainage in heavy clay soils.

Demo Rain Gardens Bartholomew County The demonstration rain garden in Bartholomew County is located on the IUPU Columbus Campus in a parking lot island and had previously been a flat and open, ...

A rain garden can provide not just effective storm-water management, but also multiple seasons of color and interest, if the plants are chosen carefully. In Wayne, Pa., a rain garden designed by ...

Plant a rain garden Back in March, we published a post discussing the purposes served by a rain garden, and how to make your own.

Rain gardens can be installed in a relatively compact space of about 100 square feet, she said. The “it” factor is infiltration, the rate at which soil is able to absorb and, as a byproduct ...

Rain gardens can be designed and installed as attractive landscape beds, often planted with a mix of blooming plants that are well-adapted to enhance the water infiltration task of a rain garden.

Rain gardens are being built all over the city of Buffalo to capture storm water, but we have limited data on their performance.  ...

To improve the rain garden’s infiltration rate, the top 10-12 inches of heavy clay soil was removed and replaced with putting green aeration plugs that were comprised mostly of sand. Before using the ...

The Charles River Watershed Association received a grant worth more than $400,000 to design and build two rain gardens and an infiltration system.

Two new rain gardens are being created on campus, joining the extensive rain garden on Western campus and three others designed to help reduce and purify rain runoff.

The rain gardens guide stormwater toward spaces loaded with plants, trees, amended soil, mulch and compost to soak up the nutrients and pollutants.