Like pea gravel, these garden rocks are often used for drainage ... it enables draining and allows rain to reach plant roots ...

Any effective rain garden landscaping should discourage standing ... and lined with grasses, gravel or river rocks for the dry creek effect. Use the excavated soil to build up gently sloping ...

a handful of boulders, and as Cooper pointed out to me when I visited in October, stepping stones made from recycled granite street curbs. (Wildlife seem to like the place, too—my rain garden ...

But the general rain garden needs a base area of small rocks or sand. The EPA has a database that can help determine what plants might work best in a rain garden depending on your area. On a simple ...

Bioswales differ from rain gardens in form and scale. Designed to capture and convey stormwater, bioswales are sloped ...

So a rain garden is a depression in the ground and just ... And you can see a cross section of the different soil characteristics and rocks that are filtering down as the water flows through.

A rain garden is an environmentally friendly stormwater management strategy that filters out contaminants and reduces flooding. If you are wondering, “What are rain gardens, and why would I want ...

“As an effective way to address storm water on a private parcel basis, a rain garden is probably one of the easiest things ... advantage of a gradual slope), through a trench filled with rocks or ...

Jenn creates a rain garden; Ross explains moisture meters ... All the rounded edges allow water to easily flow in between the rocks, and it won't ever, over time, compact. Alright, so now it's ...

SHANNON: THE LARIMER RAIN GARDEN WAS ACTUALLY DESIGNED AND BUILT ... "The water is filtered into the basin through rocks and plants, and if there's an event that's larger than this basin can ...

Columbine and other plants add some color to the rain garden at the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway. Beth Lipoff Special to The Star Managing stormwater is about more than just ditches ...