Build Your Rain Garden - Part II

A pretty rain garden will raise the pleasure that people feel in their households. The family room with a big screen tv might be a wonderful room, but a rain garden design in the yard will be a very unique place. A yard made with a rain garden will provide a great position for meeting with friends and family. A rain garden in the backyard will be full of life and full of color. In the backyard of this garden will be a place that people want to be for different activities. This type of garden is a specialty of dedicated gardeners. Dedicated rain garden gardeners do not go to the nurseries and choose the latest sale item to throw into the backyard. These gardeners think long and hard about a design for their gardens. They are very familiar with the most popular designs, and they decide which of these designs will be best for the space they garden. They know the rain garden has special characteristics. Numerous of these dedicated gardeners choose the rain garden design for the special qualities involved.

Basic idea of a rain garden began sometime in the 1990s in the state of Maryland. They are now one of the fastest growing areas of concern for home landscapes. A rain garden is structured to make the best use of natural resources especially water. The purpose of a rain garden is to provide places for rain to soak into the ground, and not flow directly into storm drains, by creating a rain garden. A rain garden should be good news for those paying the water bill. This bill should be substantially reduced by those with a rain garden for their landscapes. This type of garden is carefully planned and constructed to capture as much water as possible for use to nourish the plants in the garden. The right constructed rain garden design should capture water that has run off the roof or gutter of a house. Usually located under a downspout, a rain garden can simply be an area that slopes away from your house that is planted with vegetation adapted to large (but intermittent) amounts of rainfall. A properly planned rain garden design should also help to pass some of the waste that runs off the soil into fresh water sources. The plants and the soil in this type of garden are carefully planted to keep waste and pollutants from causing the damage that they often do in other gardens. Native plants are ideally suited to these conditions. A rain garden should not be located too close to buildings because this could damage these structures. These gardens must be carefully placed to capture the water. A rain garden should be placed where the plants will get plenty of sunshine. The sunshine is necessary for the growth of the plants in a rain garden. For a more elaborate rain garden, place 1" x 6" boards on their sides to form a box, nail or bolt them together, backfill with a topsoil and sand mixture, then plant. A beautiful rain garden design will add so much beauty to a home, and those people who would like to establish a garden should look carefully at using this design.