Rain Gardens Keep Storm Water on Site
One of the new Green landscaping techniques is to utilize low areas in your yard to build rain gardens which will keep excess storm water on-site. Rain gardens impact the environment in a number of positive ways. There are many tweets about rain gardens because peeps are building them all over the country. So take a look at my list of rain garden tweets if you'd like to learn more about this new way to garden.
Rain Garden Twitter List
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- retweet | reply Lake_Champlain
- How to build a rain garden | Ecoyards - http://shar.es/1nfa6 via @RainGardens
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- Managing Wet Weather with Green Infrastructure | NPDES | US EPA - http://shar.es/LYMk via @RainGardens
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- :Simple Rain Harvesting System Design in Tuscon - http://shar.es/LhXk
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- Rainwater Harvesting for a small office bldg HarvestH2O.com :green_home - http://shar.es/Lhnq
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- retweet | reply TualatinRiver
- RT @RainGardens: Group hopes to expand restoration work on the Columbia River estuary – OregonLive.com - http://shar.es/L70m
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- retweet | reply HBAEVP
- rt @RainGardens Rural Oregon family tests high-capacity rain collection system - OregonLive.com - http://shar.es/NUzt
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- Ecological Design, Greenroofs, Living Walls: Workshops at Chemeketa Community College http://shar.es/NQQv
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- Low Impact Development Leader http://shar.es/Ntmo
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- retweet | reply lletellier
- @Robin_Tucker Thanks, I did get the wall finished this weekend - now for the raingarden plantings...
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- retweet | reply traceyzoeller
- This sedge is doing nicely in the raingarden. http://twitpic.com/62wga
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- Vols install raingarden at restaurant - Lincoln, Nebraska - News - Local - http://shar.es/0uGd
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- retweet | reply robcatchlove
- Hard to think that our raingarden is getting too much rain! Nice to hear the sound of rain isn't it.
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- retweet | reply kristidugan
- Finished the rain garden (with significant help from @jasondugan)! http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixielittle/tags/raingarden/
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- retweet | reply devinwaughART
- The bottom line is that if you can't make yourself go plant a raingarden or dig a ditch on your own. Let these green revolutionists guide U
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- retweet | reply ginilester
- @joem500 doing good. Will be looking at a piece of land that has been flooded in the rain and hope to adapt it as a raingarden.
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- retweet | reply greywillow
- @seedplanter That's funny, I just walked in from moving some stuff around in my raingarden.
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What is a rain garden?
A rain garden is a shallow depression that keeps storm water in place for a day or two, allowing it to soak in so that it can be used by the plants. You can create a rain garden in a low area where rain water collects naturally. In urban areas, rain gardens can be combined with French drains to channel the water to other flower beds or away from the house.
Rain gardens help reduce water pollution and help to alleviate flooding by allowing the water to soak in and be filtered before it reaches ditches and streams.
By using a combination of native plants and easy to grow, drought resistant naturalized plants, a rain garden can be quite beautiful all through the year.
The photo above was taken in our rain garden. The plants include (from back to front) native Blazing Star (Liatris), native Louisiana Iris, non-native Amaryllis, native Red Morning Glory, non-native Begonia and native Coral Nymph Salvia coccinea to mention a few.
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- Heather Heather Jul 3, 2009 @ 4:54 pm
- Rain gardens rock!!
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