A new rain garden is helping a village soak up success in environmental action and community collaboration. Tisbury’s first ...

3. Design your garden . Once you’ve chosen the location and calculated the size of your rain garden, it’s time to design! You’ll need to choose a shape for your garden — something that’s ...

A dry creek rain swale in a suburban garden landscape. (Alicia Springer/Contributed) Plants that tolerate winter moisture and summer drought line the banks of a swale.

If you’re interested in learning more about rain gardens and how they work, learn more in our comprehensive guide. Get expert advice on improvements to your home, ...

Identify a low section of your yard — or choose a location where you want to create one. Make sure that utilities are not ...

For example, rain gardens, in general, have much less diversity than native systems but there is also a large degree of variation among Evanston rain gardens. Although many local rain gardens were ...

This year we did get a tiny bit of rain in October and hopefully we’ll get more this winter. No matter how much we get, we want to keep it here to feed our gardens, rivers and aquifers.

The garden was paid for with $3,000 in donations from REACH and ReWild Long Island and was built at no cost to the town, Chelius said. The Huntington Fire Department has volunteered to use a truck ...

One example would be rain gardens, which are depressed areas that collect rainwater from a roof or street and filter out pollutants, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.