Rain Gardens
By Leighann on May 3, 2009 in Gardening, Green Stuff
Rain Gardens
A rain garden is an attractive landscaping feature planted with perennial native plants. It is a bowl-shaped garden, designed to absorb stormwater run-off from impervious surfaces such as roofs and parking lots. www.raingardens.org
This is a fantastic little video that explains how to use a rain garden in your yard to add low maintenence beauty and help with water runoff and erosion. Not sure why it repeats twice. Sorry. 
We’re learning about these at school right now! We’re going to plant one here soon. Everybody contribute to the environment!
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lilyloverlai
| May 3, 2009 | Reply
This is a wonderful video, I really want to implement this in our community. We should all give back something and this is a mutually beneficial opportunity.
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alaskaozzy
| May 3, 2009 | Reply
5 stars! I wish we could have more rain here in Georgia! We are still in a drought situation. The rain we HAVE gotten has not been enough to help our deficit. But, we do have a large amount of drought tolerant plants here. Blessin’s, Melissa
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gardenmagik
| May 3, 2009 | Reply
I see these at Lowes and Walmart parking lots
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k9feces
| May 3, 2009 | Reply
Nice job! Good explanation of the impacts to the hydrologic cycle of urbanized area.
Note that the video isn’t really 12 min long. Six minutes runs twice.
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stormwatergeek
| May 3, 2009 | Reply