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Sedges are moisture loving, grass-like plants that make attractive additions to a rain garden. Photo by noricum.83

Solve Drainage Problems With a Rain Garden

A rain garden is a beautiful solution to drainage problems on your property from stormwater runoff and other sources. A single inch of rain falling on a roof or other impervious surface produces 680 gallons...

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Make Your Yard a Water Pollution Solution

Water pollution is often a result of industrial or commercial activities but pollutants from residential areas - such as petroleum, pesticides, fertilizers and volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) from solvents – can be carried in storm water runoff to rivers, lakes and oceans. There are simple ways to prevent your home from contaminating fresh water sources and make it part of the water pollution solution. Here’s how…

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Native Prairie Plants for a Rain Garden

Rain gardens are a beautiful way to solve drainage problems and reduce stormwater runoff from your property. Most rain garden designers recommend using native plants in rain gardens because they are better...

3 comments    gardening native plants prairie
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Basic Gardening Maintenance

If you garden, the garden’s call to come outside and do something is almost irrestible. This call is what gardening is all about, the gardeners gets an opportunity to be in nature and enjoy the sun,...

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The Benevolent Gardener

June 14, 2008 The Benevolent Gardener Under the shadow of real estate developments and population growth, our town and perhaps yours, is concerned with the achieving of a Master Town Plan. This means a...

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Natural Resources Consulting Committed to Enviromental Stewardship

NRC team in front of their new Wisconsin headquarters located just off Interstate I-94 between Madison and Milwaukee in Cottage Grove.Originally published in The Herald-Independent newspaper'sJuly 31, 2008...

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Rain Garden

  There are many different types of water gardens, ranging from a tropical paradise of several acres to a boggy spot in your backyard that you have used as it is rather than putting in expensive drainage,...

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What does a garden look like after the Olympic games?

So, you ask, "What does a garden look like when its owner has totally ignored it for the Olympics?" Well my friends, I'll tell you ….weeds. So if you're a gardener who plants a few impatiens beside the...

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Home Gardening Tips Tricks and Everything Else

The best of home gardening. Be inspired by what others have in their gardens which can include a variety of different gardening styles and elements. See the latest perennials and annuals on the market.

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SOOTHING SOUNDS OF LIFE

This rare clip of Louis, is from the first of two BBC-TV shows. Each 45 minutes, taped the same day, July 2, 1968. The band consisted of: Tyree Glenn-trombone, Joe Muranyi-clarinet, Marty Napoleon-piano,...

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