Q: I have been thinking about putting in a rain garden. Do you have any advice on building one? What kind of plants can be planted in the flooded soil? A: A ...

A rain garden and accompanying dry stream bed, designed and installed by Carrie Dubberley of Dubberley Landscape, turned out to be the solution. “It looks a lot better than the mud pit that was ...

That being said, a rain garden is generally a small landscape project, and most yards can easily be adapted to accommodate one. A rain garden typically has three planting zones.

The hilltop landscape surrounding one gorgeous home in Brentwood’s Mandeville Canyon will be the crowning piece of the Assn. of Professional Landscape Designers’ eight-garden tour taking place ...

Two landscape features that can help with both water conservation when it’s dry, as well as storm-water management when it’s rainy, are rain gardens and dry creek beds.

A common sense approach to cutting water use is to collect rain that runs off the roof into a rain barrel. Residents in dry areas around the country collect rain to water their gardens. Yet, in ...

Tobiah Horton, a specialist in landscape architecture at Rutgers University, will speak at the seminar in Ringoes on Nov. 15. (Courtesy of Marilyn Bullock) Delaware River Greenway Partnership ...

It seems rain is common in late December, January and February. March is often stormy. So, the rainfall we have been experiencing since December, and particularly the past couple of weeks, is not ...

Bob Bertog, president of Bertog Landscape Co. in Wheeling and a certified landscape professional with the National Association of Landscape Professionals, joins John Williams to answer all of your ...