Sentences with phrase «about rain gardens»

For example, I was writing up a series of posts about rain gardens for a local gutter contractor.

Not exact matches

(I don't think co-enable is really a word, but since I'm already greedy about garden goodies, and she feeds that greed by nurturing the bitsy seeds I sow with rain and sunshine, I figure we're co-enablers.)

Here in the Garden State, we average about 4.13 inches of rain per spring so we're pretty familiar with umbrellas, raincoats, and goulashes.

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.

Compared to a conventional patch of lawn, a rain garden allows about 30 percent more water to soak into the ground, keeping plants green and conserving water along the way.

When my friends invite me over for a tour of their gorgeous new home, I coo over their rain shower and perfectly landscaped yard and when I return to my apartment with its fire escape «garden» and bad water pressure, I never think about their house again.

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?

Ms. Jackson proposed several possible projects, including a rain garden to solve the water runoff problem, and she told me about a grant opportunity and wrote a letter of support.

Fiji is an archipelago of more than 330 islands, of which about a third are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 small islets in the South Pacific, with beaches, coral gardens, and rain forests.

Hello all, well this all is getting very dire, My vegetable garden is rotting in the ground, to much rain and scoring heat,, I noticed most of my trees on my 5 acre farm are browning at the top and the leaves are thinning on all of them and around 10 of them are completely dead... We live here in the carpet capital of the world and seems to me that most don't see or don't care about the sky or the trees or the air they breathe... Just this week We had to completely drain our grand kids pool and start over, with all this rain it turned green and no amount of algae killer would clear it up, The PH was insanely high...... It's the small things in life that make what's left of life on this planet........

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