Rain garden landscape design

In California, and around the world, climate change is making extreme rain more likely. Here's how some cities are adapting.

Rain Garden at the Oregon Convention Center | The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Portland

Looking for inexpensive ways to green your property? Rain gardens are great, small projects that can be added as an enhancement to almost any property.

Capture rainwater and support local ecosystems with a rain garden. Find out how to design and plant a rain garden that benefits both your yard and the environment. 🌧️🌻 #RainGarden #WaterConservation #SustainableLandscaping

When it rains, it pours. So much so that heavy rainfall flows quickly off of roofs and onto some form of paved surface, occasionally with unintended consequences. With the installation of a rain garden in

April showers bring May flowers - especially when those May flowers are planted in a rain garden! Rain gardens are a win/win, providing plants for pollinators while reducing sediment and pollutants that harm aquatic invertebrates like freshwater mussels.

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A weathering-steel pavilion featuring fluid curves formed the centrepiece of this garden by Studio Weave and Tom Massey at the Chelsea Flower Show.

The cross section of a raised plant bed, or berm, that is the type proposed for Whitehall Plaza. Subsurface “Silva Cells” allow tree roots to grow under the sidewalk. Diagram by the RBA Group

How can you handle extra rain from gutters, heavy rain, or a sloping site? A residential rain garden is a type of green infrastructure that mimics natural processes to retain and use stormwater. It promotes water infiltration, transpiration, and harvesting throughout the landscape. It also helps restore the natural water balance in areas with scarce or plentiful rain. Here's how to plan and plant yours!