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From the lens Rain Gardens - A Beautiful Way To Improve Water Quality.

Tell me what you think - good or bad, I can take it. Just be polite, please.

Thank you very much!

  • BarbaraCasey Feb 27, 2011 @ 12:29 pm | delete
    Good to know about the cypress mulch, thanks.
  • BizGuides Nov 7, 2010 @ 2:39 pm | delete
    Suggestion:
    Support pervious paving, either asphalt or concrete. Do It!
    Reason: It allows water to pass through and helps
    recharge stores of groundwater in aquifers
    instead of running wildly off causing erosion and sediment
    pollution in our streams and lakes, etc.
    Society is facing a water shortage for good clean safe drinking water.
    Let's educate ourselves and mandate changes in paving. It's that important.
  • CherylK Nov 22, 2010 @ 6:31 pm | delete
    Another very good idea. Thanks for the visit!
  • Fitzcharming Sep 10, 2010 @ 8:25 pm | delete
    A beautiful example of a native plant garden. I'm interested in native plants and wrote a lens on native plant gardening in Florida. Thanks for being so conscious of our environment and your lens is squid angel blessed.
  • CherylK Sep 22, 2010 @ 5:20 pm | delete
    Thank you very, very much for the angel blessing, Wanda. I did read your lens on the native plant gardening in Florida and learned a thing or two!! So thank you. Thanks for stopping by and commenting, too.
  • vallain Jun 30, 2010 @ 6:48 pm | delete
    Such an important message! I love to garden and now I can also feel that I'm doing something for the planet's water supply too.
  • CherylK Jul 8, 2010 @ 9:10 am | delete
    Well, thank you very much for the visit! Isn't it nice that gardening isn't just "pretty"? It's also earth friendly...ya gotta love that!
  • KathyMcGraw Jun 30, 2010 @ 2:31 pm | delete
    Hi Cheryl....saw your picture on the Introducing Giants and had to come say hi. What I didn't expect was to find this great article...I have been trying to work on conserving water, and figuring ways to reuse it. Love this lens....
  • CherylK Jul 8, 2010 @ 9:12 am | delete
    Hi Kathy! Thanks so much for stopping by and for your kind comments. We love our native flowers and grasses and so does our lake!!
  • skiesgreen Jun 21, 2010 @ 7:13 pm | delete
    Great lens on such an important subject. My entire block is a rain garden full of native trees and shrubs and mulched over to stop weeds. It is completely maintenance free yet I grow over 30 different types of fruit and most of my vegies. *-*Bllessed*-* and featured on Sprinkled with Stardust and also on Save Planet Earth
  • CherylK Jun 26, 2010 @ 8:47 am | delete
    Thanks for the visit, Norma! Wow - you must live on a beautiful block. Thanks so much for the blessing and for featuring this lens on yours. Much appreciated.
  • megank824 Feb 10, 2010 @ 3:22 pm | delete
    Hi Cheryl,

    Not sure if my first post went through...

    I work for a nonprofit and I'm wondering if I may use your photo of the newly planted rain garden for a stormwater management manual I'm helping write. It is a great picture! Thanks,

    Megan
  • CherylK Feb 10, 2010 @ 4:31 pm | delete
    Hi Megan...glad you like the photo. I got permission to use it from a Flickr photographer (if you click on the picture you'll be taken to his photostream.). Here's a link to his raingarden set of photographs http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottie32/sets/72157604526315167/. I think you should contact him and I know he'll be pleased to let you use any of the pictures in that set. You can tell him you saw the photo on my Squidoo lens. Good luck with your manual and let me know when it's ready...would love to take a look at it!
  • megank824 Feb 11, 2010 @ 8:07 pm | delete
    Thanks Cheryl! That is a big help.

    I will be sure to send you a note when the manual is ready. It should be available online.

    Take care!
  • AppalachianCountry Feb 9, 2010 @ 9:58 am | delete
    Great information that I will use. Thx for all the work on this lens! 5*
  • Levitah Jan 31, 2010 @ 6:55 am | delete
    What a great lens, I really enjoyed reading rain gardens. Thank you for sharing it. 5*
  • CherylK Feb 2, 2010 @ 10:37 am | delete
    Thank you for stopping by, Levitah, and welcome to Squidoo. So glad you agree that we need to protect our natural waterways!
  • CherylK Jan 15, 2010 @ 10:17 am | delete
    I appreciate all the supportive comments...thanks much. Water is such a critical natural resource and rain gardens and lakescapes are perfect filters. Plus they're just so beautiful.
  • Kimsworld Jan 11, 2010 @ 5:58 pm | delete
    I also built a rain water collection system to water my vegetable garden. We have been in a severe drought so long that every little drop will help, when summer comes around.
  • Rainwater_Harvester Nov 24, 2009 @ 6:17 pm | delete
    Great lens, I collect rainwater in rainwater tanks and then direct the overflow to certain areas of my garden where it soaks into the soil to do the most good. Since I've started doing this my garden has benefited greatly.
  • CaroleBee Aug 31, 2009 @ 10:05 pm | delete
    Cheryl, thank you for writing such an informative lens about this very important issue. Stormwater management is on of the tenets of Conservation Gardening, where I have added this lens to my lensroll.
  • sittonbull Jul 27, 2009 @ 10:38 pm | delete
    Congratulations on making Kim G's "Another Day of 100 Squid Angel Blessings" with this great lens. Water conservation and quality are a passion of mine and especially important to the quality of our lives as we end this decade and move forward into the next.
  • KimGiancaterino Jul 27, 2009 @ 2:37 pm | delete
    You've been blessed by a Squid Angel, and this lens was included in Another Day of One Hundred Squid Angel Blessings.
  • Ladydove62 Jul 12, 2009 @ 6:25 pm | delete
    I love your photos:) This lens is very informative. I am apartment living not by choice but necessity. My dad does the gardening in his little mountain town. Thanks for the kind encouragement when you stopped by. I appreciate it immensly:)
  • RinchenChodron Jun 18, 2009 @ 10:51 pm | delete
    Very well written and interesting - I actually read every word! Thanks for an informative and creative and meaningful lens - 5 stars and a fav. Best wishes in reaching Giant Squid very soon!
  • Demaw Jun 10, 2009 @ 11:29 am | delete
    In my area people are cementing up their front yards for convenience and to park their extra cars. Now the local politicians want to pass a law that says they have to leave a certain percentage with gravel or anything that would allow water to soak in. This would help with the problem of overflowing sewers and flooding. I love the beautiful pictures of the flowers in your garden. 5 plus lens.
  • flipflopnana Jun 6, 2009 @ 2:57 pm | delete
    I have moved recently and have been working on landscaping plans. I think I need to change them a little. Thanks so much for your information, Great lens!
  • Pastiche May 15, 2009 @ 10:21 am | delete
    We think alike when it comes to gardening and protecting the watershed. Thanks for visiting my Rain Gardens lens and for your kind comments- 'rolled back to this rain garden lens as another solid resource.
  • kimmanleyort May 14, 2009 @ 7:26 am | delete
    Thanks for featuring my lens. This is a wonderful lens and very practical - one way each person can make a difference.
  • BevsPaper May 8, 2009 @ 1:09 pm | delete
    Extremely well written lens! Information here I hadn't thought about before. 5*s for U!
  • Janiece Apr 30, 2009 @ 9:43 am | delete
    Wonderful lens! Thanks for the info! 5's!
  • RolandTumble Apr 29, 2009 @ 7:21 pm | delete
    Very nice. 5*, favorite & lensrolled to my eco-lens
  • Lazy_Environmentalist Apr 28, 2009 @ 10:50 pm | delete
    Great lens! You've put together a lot of helpful information here. I'd love for you to visit my lens and say hello when you have the chance.
  • AppalachianCountry Apr 15, 2009 @ 8:39 am | delete
    This is so needed. The mountain farmers down here do this all over. Great lens.
  • Ylliks Apr 10, 2009 @ 8:34 am | delete
    I'm a big fan of sustainable ideas and this is such a simple and effective one.

    Great lens and deservingly blessed.
  • spirituality Apr 8, 2009 @ 9:13 am | delete
    Great lens - you've been blessed by a squidoo angel :)
  • rockycha Mar 19, 2009 @ 10:15 am | delete
    Caught your shout it out :) Wonderful lens worthy of a squid angel blessing - excellent development of this topic and very well presented...
  • Graceonline Feb 22, 2009 @ 10:40 am | delete
    Your lenses are always beautiful, well-written and informative, Cheryl. This one is exemplary. What a perfect weekend project for the whole family!
  • mistyblue75605 Dec 5, 2008 @ 6:28 am | delete
    5*'s very nice lens!! Love the topic and content!!
  • poddys Nov 29, 2008 @ 10:25 pm | delete
    I had never heard of this but it makes perfect sense. 5***** for a very nice lens.
  • naturegirl7 Nov 4, 2008 @ 4:32 pm | delete
    Great Green gardening lens. I'm lensrolling it to my Sustainable Gardening a la Rabbit Hill lens. Have you thought about submitting it to our Naturally Native Squids group? I hope you will.
  • PastorKay Oct 27, 2008 @ 2:24 pm | delete
    The Prairie Smoke is beautiful. I am not familiar with it.
  • AndyPo Sep 26, 2008 @ 4:22 am | delete
    Great lens. I now wish I had a garden. (5*)
  • Sep 16, 2008 @ 5:42 am | delete
    Yes, stop water pollution. We must practice proper waste management and take good care of our environment. 5* for you
  • SustainableSarah Sep 14, 2008 @ 10:05 am | delete
    This is a wonderful lens on SUCH an important topic (as is Elizabeth Jean Allen's!). I'm so glad I saw this in your lenses. I just watched a move called FLOW (and, of course, will make a lens about it!) but it's incredibly impactful and I totally recommend that you check it out. I was just in CA and was talking to a water conservationist about algal blooms in the Monterey bay and the effect of pesticide run off- it's terrifying!
  • mllamb46 Sep 5, 2008 @ 4:36 pm | delete
    WOW, what a fantastic lens Cheryl! Its so informative as well as a pleasure to look at!
    (Thanks for your nice comments too)
    ~Melody
  • Sep 1, 2008 @ 6:57 pm | delete
    This lens is very informative. I learned a lot about water run off and thr right kinds of mulch.
    thank you for a beautiful contribution, Cheryl.

    Thank you also for your wonderful comments. You made my day!
  • Jewelsofawe Jul 26, 2008 @ 7:52 am | delete
    What a great lens. Thanks for stopping by my Being Earth Friendly lens and favoriting it and lensrolling. I am doing the same on yours. I love your lenses!
  • spirituality May 19, 2008 @ 6:40 am | delete
    Very good point, and very well made. Gardens should be made in such a way that they help water go into the ground, instead of into the sewers or surface water.
  • Mac33 May 16, 2008 @ 3:37 pm | delete
    Cool lens! Thanks for spreading the word about rain gardens.
  • funwithtrains May 6, 2008 @ 11:37 pm | delete
    Nice Lens! 5 stars and a favorite from me! Please visit my Marklin Trains lens.
  • ElizabethJeanAllen Apr 27, 2008 @ 8:19 pm | delete
    What a great lens with great information! I lensrolled it to my lens on water and water pollution.
    Liz
  • eccles1 Apr 27, 2008 @ 6:36 pm | delete
    what a great idea!
  • Evelyn_Saenz Apr 25, 2008 @ 6:44 pm | delete
    What a great lens! 5 stars and Favored!
    The Purple Gallinulesloved your lens so much that they are sending you some virtual Rain Drops
  • triathlontraining Apr 22, 2008 @ 12:11 pm | delete
    Hey fellow Minnesotan! Great job on the Lens. I love the topic!
  • Susan52 Apr 20, 2008 @ 1:20 pm | delete
    Another really good one! We do have a runoff problem and I wouldn't mind having a lovely flower garden. Could solve two problems in one, right? Thanks!
  • Imogen_Crest Apr 19, 2008 @ 2:11 pm | delete
    A lens with some great ideas! Thanks for creating it!
  • merriweather Apr 15, 2008 @ 11:00 am | delete
    Great information and fairly simple to implement. Thanks!
  • BigGirlBlue Apr 13, 2008 @ 11:05 pm | delete
    Excellent lens. I've been considering this for the front yard so I really appreciated your lens. My first goal this season is to get a decent looking, inexpensive rain barrel.

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