The Garden Bug: Rain Gardens

By Brenda Weaver

Rain gardens are shallow depressions in your property that give rainfall a chance to collect and filter through your landscape instead of being funneled quickly away from the property into local waterways via storm drains. By catching direct runoff from homes and buildings, rain gardens store and filter water, resulting in less flooding, water contamination, and strain on septic systems.

Sources: guides.library.illinois.edu, www.mywatersheds.org, www.gba.org