Sentences with phrase «planting rain gardens»

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

For example, Central suffered a set - back when they learned their school's renovation would not allow them to plant a rain garden as originally planned.

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Whether you're listening to the rain or planting seeds in your sunny spring garden, let this spring produce guide and list of healthy spring recipes motivate you to embrace the first days of your local farmer's market!

In the summer of 1992, Rick DeWitt's pepper garden in Sarasota, Florida, which was planted in sandy, well - drained soil, was destroyed by seventeen inches of rain that fell in just two days.

Buy a rain water barrel or collect rain water in large buckets and have the kid's water indoor plants and / or the garden with rain water.

The Park District's plan would feature rain gardens, savanna plants and conifer groves to attract native animals and butterflies.

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

We collect rain water and use that to water our garden and plants.

A small vegetable garden and two rain gardens need regular weeding and maintenance and trees and shrubs planted for wildlife need annual attention.

By using harvested rainwater for watering lawns, watering gardens and potted plants, and for washing cars, rain barrels conserve water.

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.

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.

Choose plants carefully — There are many plants that do well in rain gardens or occasionally flooded areas.

maculatum (Joe pye weed) performed well in the experiments and could be used as rain garden plants, according to the authors.

«The filter bed substrate is the foundation of the rain garden and gives it the ability to infiltrate runoff, slow drainage, support plant growth, and remove pollutants,» explained Helen Kraus, lead author of a study published in HortScience.

Sunshine and Rain (Illustrates how both sunny and wet weather are important for plant growth) This lovely song celebrates how sunshine and rainfall help to nurture the growth of plants in our gardens.

Leave it in your garden to collect rain water and you'll have a constant supply of water for the plants when you need it.

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.

Each «sweet» (a play on suite) features an open - air garden bathroom with an outdoor soaking tub for two and rain shower, surrounded by swaying palms and tropical plants.

Each also features an outdoor rain - shower within a garden bathroom where guests» privacy is protected by walls, palms and tall plants.

Work has already started on the gardens with clearing and planting so that when the rains come Mother Nature will help us to create a beautiful garden.

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

Use soil and vegetation in a constructed technique, such as rain gardens or green roofs, to mimic natural hydrologic processes like percolation through soil and plant uptake and transpiration.

The site will reduce stormwater run - off into the combined storm sewer by 67 percent through the use of bio-swales (also known as rain gardens) which allow storm water to infiltrate back into the ground where, through phytoremediation, the plants contribute to the filtration of the water.

It's hard to justify rain barrels for major landscapes, but they are quite practical for small vegetable and flower gardens, especially plants grown in containers, according to gardeners.

As water collects in the rain garden, it is filtered and slowly absorbed by soil and plants.

Peonies used to be a flop in the garden, their weighty flowerheads bowed under the rains of a summer storm but, over the past 40 years, peony growers have been busy developing plants with stronger stems.

I am going to go to the garden center and get some plants to spruce up my porch planters, I can do that even in the rain, Happy Spring Weekend to you!

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

Since your plants must be watered in order to survive, and lets face it, it doesn't rain whenever we want it to, gardening equipment for watering is a must have.