Houzz Call: Have You Installed a Rain Garden?
Tell us if your landscape includes one of these beautiful and useful landscape features
Rain gardens, like rain barrels, make use of the free rainwater draining off your roof or other impervious surface. More than that, these sunken planting beds help keep water out of our storm drains, reducing stress on aging infrastructure while cleaning and returning a precious natural resource back to the earth. With the rainy season upon many parts of the country, we’d love to see these gardens at work.
Calling all Houzzers: Have you put in a rain garden? If so, upload a picture in the Comments. If you haven’t, tell us why you are or are not considering one.
Calling all Houzzers: Have you put in a rain garden? If so, upload a picture in the Comments. If you haven’t, tell us why you are or are not considering one.
They can be small. Beneath a downspout, in parking strips or other tight landscape spots where water drains, stormwater planters filled with rain garden plants help manage runoff while maintaining a compact footprint.
In addition to a permeable courtyard floor of pea gravel and bluestone pavers, this garden in Boston features a raised stormwater planter that collects runoff from the roof. The water runs into the planter from the downspout and drains through its open bottom to the ground, percolating through the soil and plant roots on its way.
In addition to a permeable courtyard floor of pea gravel and bluestone pavers, this garden in Boston features a raised stormwater planter that collects runoff from the roof. The water runs into the planter from the downspout and drains through its open bottom to the ground, percolating through the soil and plant roots on its way.
They can be part of a larger system. Multiple features contribute to the stormwater management in this South Carolina garden. The rain garden includes iris, hosta and blue star creeper. A bioswale, designed to move and drain water, drains into the garden.
Show us: Have you installed a rain garden at home? Upload a photo in the Comments below.
Show us: Have you installed a rain garden at home? Upload a photo in the Comments below.
Your turn: Show us your rain garden, if you’ve already installed one at your home. Upload your photos in the Comments.