Sentences with phrase «from rain gardens»

From rain gardens to green roofs, green infrastructure practices decrease pollutant loadings into waters, which can reduce illness from recreational contact or polluted drinking water.

Diverse plants are displayed in the many micro-environments of this landscape from its rain gardens and hydroponic planters to its exposed roof surface.

Not exact matches

Snakes talk, men live in whales for 3 days, bread rains down from the sky, a man parted the sea, chariots of fire come and go from heaven, and there's a flaming sward guarding this garden of fruit... Anyone who believes this stuff is a dummy of the highest order..

I just returned from Leesburg, Indiana where I spent three days eating a wide variety of delicious dishes prepared with duck, courtesy of Maple Leaf Farms (more on that in an upcoming post), and when I got home the garden had exploded with growth from a few days of rain and heat.

In their win in Game 1, D.J. Augustin was raining threes from the Madison Square Garden arc like Allan Houston.

The garden is getting a good long soaking today with the rain that's falling, and we're getting a lovely little break from the work of it too.

I'm happily taking a bit of a break from the garden today while the rain comes down (saving me from all that time spent watering by hand - hooray for rain!).

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

Armed with blankets, snacks and rain ponchos, about 25 marchers stuck it out for the start of the sleep - in, held across the street from Madison Square Garden and Brother Jimmy's BBQ.

From a gardening perspective, the natural nutrients in rain water make it far better than tap water, which has chlorine and fluoride in it.

Other methods include planting rain gardens to naturally soak up and filter the runoff, or simply disconnecting gutter downspouts from your home.

On the other hand, a shallow rain garden will need a lot of surface area to provide enough water storage to filtrate runoff from larger storms.

Your rain garden should be at least 10 feet away from building foundations, underground utilities and septic systems.

A rain garden is a landscaped area planted preferably with wildflowers and other native vegetation that soak up rainwater, from the roofs, driveways or other impervious surfaces.

Now imagine the worst - weather - day in history — and then I'm not talking about the Monster Storm — on which rain keeps pouring and pouring from 6AM in the morning till midnight, but regardless to that you have to be up and ready to shoot at 8AM — it's winter — in a botanical garden where the only space to change is some sort of basement laboratory — without heating — jumping into Resort and Spring / Summer pieces, and not let any of this spoil your pretty face... What in the world has to happen to turn all of this into something fabulously freaking fantastic?

Ecofriendly aspects and cutting edge technology are a trademark of this property, from the recycled roofing materials, led lighting throughout the house and garden, rain water collected in underground tanks and used for irrigation, insulated sliding doors and solar water heaters, the owners have been mindful of the environment.

Choose from a Garden View Studio with tropical rain tree and marina glimpses or an Ocean View Studio with stunning views over the Coral sea and marina.

Richard Hassell speaks of this eco-friendly project...» We are very pleased that Alila Hotels have embraced the Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) principles, and we are using many ESD measures including local materials, water conservation with soaks and rain gardens and recycling with grey water systems, using local plants from the special Bali Savannah ecosystem on the Bukit, which are being raised in a nursery on site to encourage local bird and animal life, heat pumps for water heating, salt water pools — among many others.

BEDROOMS MASTER SUITE: - Housed in its own pavilion separated from the living and dining area - King - sized bedroom with vaulted ceiling, dark teak floors, glass doors leading out onto a private deck with garden and ocean views - TV lounge with comfortable sofas, large flat - screen TV with DVD player - Small reading room which «floats» above the fish pond with glimpses of the pool - Huge dressing room - Semi-open ensuite bathroom with large rectangular terrazzo bathtub, his - and - hers vanities, and walk - in rain shower - Private garden - Air - conditioned GUEST BEDROOMS 1 & 2: - Both guestrooms are housed in a separate pavilion adjacent to the dining area — designed for children but flexibly accommodate adults - One room has a queen - sized bed with large flat - screen TV and DVD player, while the other one has twin beds and a small outdoor balcony - A corridor with built - in - robes connects the two bedrooms while also giving access to the shared bathroom - Shared bathroom features grey slate walls and flooring, indoor terrazzo bathtub and walk - in shower, additional outdoor shower with water feature - Large shared wooden deck - Air - conditioned GUEST SUITES 1 & 2: - Two - bedroom guesthouse located 50m from the main house for privacy - Queen - sized beds complimented by light and airy cream walls and teak floors - Garden bathrooms with indoor shower and glass sliding doors leading onto a wooden deck - Adjoining living area for the two rooms - Self - contained kitchen with breakfast bar and garden and ocean views - TV lounge with comfortable sofas, large flat - screen TV with DVD player - Small reading room which «floats» above the fish pond with glimpses of the pool - Huge dressing room - Semi-open ensuite bathroom with large rectangular terrazzo bathtub, his - and - hers vanities, and walk - in rain shower - Private garden - Air - conditioned GUEST BEDROOMS 1 & 2: - Both guestrooms are housed in a separate pavilion adjacent to the dining area — designed for children but flexibly accommodate adults - One room has a queen - sized bed with large flat - screen TV and DVD player, while the other one has twin beds and a small outdoor balcony - A corridor with built - in - robes connects the two bedrooms while also giving access to the shared bathroom - Shared bathroom features grey slate walls and flooring, indoor terrazzo bathtub and walk - in shower, additional outdoor shower with water feature - Large shared wooden deck - Air - conditioned GUEST SUITES 1 & 2: - Two - bedroom guesthouse located 50m from the main house for privacy - Queen - sized beds complimented by light and airy cream walls and teak floors - Garden bathrooms with indoor shower and glass sliding doors leading onto a wooden deck - Adjoining living area for the two rooms - Self - contained kitchen with breakfast bar and garden - Air - conditioned GUEST BEDROOMS 1 & 2: - Both guestrooms are housed in a separate pavilion adjacent to the dining area — designed for children but flexibly accommodate adults - One room has a queen - sized bed with large flat - screen TV and DVD player, while the other one has twin beds and a small outdoor balcony - A corridor with built - in - robes connects the two bedrooms while also giving access to the shared bathroom - Shared bathroom features grey slate walls and flooring, indoor terrazzo bathtub and walk - in shower, additional outdoor shower with water feature - Large shared wooden deck - Air - conditioned GUEST SUITES 1 & 2: - Two - bedroom guesthouse located 50m from the main house for privacy - Queen - sized beds complimented by light and airy cream walls and teak floors - Garden bathrooms with indoor shower and glass sliding doors leading onto a wooden deck - Adjoining living area for the two rooms - Self - contained kitchen with breakfast bar and Garden bathrooms with indoor shower and glass sliding doors leading onto a wooden deck - Adjoining living area for the two rooms - Self - contained kitchen with breakfast bar and stools

G'day from Sydney and a rainy Sunday with grey skies, the garden needed the rain that is for sure - we are heading into the Easter holiday with a mixed forecast, I'm taking some time off and was hoping to be making it to the beach every day, and we have a semi-planned camping trip, I LOVE Australian...

There are also a private exotic garden and braai / barbecue facilities well shielded from any wind and rain.

Doors from both rooms lead to open - air garden bathrooms: smaller in size than those of the principle suites, but still featuring sunken bathtubs which blend seamlessly with the stone floors plus outdoor tropical rain showers.

Featuring a large bedroom, adjoining sitting room and verandah steps away from the beach, the villa is also complemented with a spacious bathroom, a glass - walled shower, bath tub and open courtyard complete with a «rain shower» with an outdoor garden Jacuzzi.

Pieces such as Allyson Vieira's Construction (Rampart)(2012) respond to the local vegetation and ecology of the area with her pyramid of bronze cast paper cups that fill with rain or fallen leaves from the garden bed above.

These garden chairs were discovered hanging from a cleanly designed modular structure at the Chelsea Flower Show; which was a perfect place for them, and us, because it was raining.

An alert from the rain gauge could let you know if you need to make time to water the garden that day, or if you can skip it because of local rainfall, and while I didn't see this particular recipe, I imagine you could also set up a system to automatically turn off your sprinklers while it's raining.

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By this wonderful provision, which is only man's mastery over nature, the clouds are dispensing copious rains... [the plow] is the instrument which separates civilization from savagery; and converts a desert into a farm or garden....

The chapter first rehabilitated an existing rain garden that captures runoff from a 20,000 square foot parking lot at Gregory Elementary, a Title I magnet school in Wilmington.

Rain Gardens: Managing water sustainably in the garden and designed landscape, by Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden, 2007 from Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Many have spent considerable sums of money on water conserving measures such as waste - water recycling and installation of rain - water tanks; others go out of their way to bucket water from showers or washing machines onto their gardens.

• I maintain an exterior organic garden and a vertical garden (herbs and lettuce) that uses water that I harvest from rain.

In addition to direct rainfall, stormwater runoff from surrounding impervious surfaces, such as sidewalks and rooftops, can be directed in to the rain garden so it can be absorbed into the ground.

From rainwater collection to the subconscious In the images below you can see work by Jordi Canudas (below left), his Rain Catcher shows a beautiful and simple solution to rainwater collection for those without a garden.

«We had to install a «rain garden» in the back yard to capture the first 1 % of rain water run - off from the structure; this is a new requirement in Atlanta, and as far as I know, we're one of the first residential projects that's been subject to this requirement.»

While they were there, they also excavated both sides of the house, re-sprayed the foundation with waterproof material, and checked the foundation drain leading underground from the downspouts to the rain garden.

If your water table is high, less than 2 feet deep from the surface, a rain garden will not work since infiltration is an issue, she adds.

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven Like the first dewfall, on the first grass Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden Sprung in completeness where his feet pass

After a winter of bad weather and the only «cleaning» coming from the rain, garden paths can end up looking a bit grubby and moss - covered by March.

they are calling for rain, but i figure i can still do pots from inside the porch... got ta get my gardening in somehow!

With so much rain I'm worried some of the garden plants will die from drowning!