Whether you live in a place that experiences a lot of rainfall or very little, having a place to channel excess water is a must. But if your landscape has impermeable structures, rain water often ...

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

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Susan Pang was logging the mandatory volunteer hours needed to become a Missouri master gardener at the Litzsinger Road Ecology Center in 2010 when a gift changed her landscape for life. “I got my ...

Heavy rainfall can cause water to pool near your home, erode driveways, or leak into basements, creating significant ...

Some weeks, it arrives as a slow, soaking rain that fills the ditches and turns the yard into a sponge. Other weeks, it comes hard and fast, sheeting off roofs, carving little gullies in sandy soil, ...

Eco-friendly rain gardens are smart for the environment - but aren't always pretty. They can turn into an overgrown mishmash of out-of-control foliage and flowers if you don't know what you're doing.

Now that wet weather has finally arrived, it seems a good time to write something about those little drops falling from the sky. You might ask, “What are rain gardens?” One writer has very aptly ...

Collecting rainwater is a sustainable way to provide your garden with moisture during drought. We consulted a landscape ...

Rain gardens help to limit the amount of nutrients and sediment that are carried into lakes, rivers and wetlands. Hutchinson has these type of gardens in a couple locations. One is near the Early ...

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