A Rain Garden or "bioretention basin" is a vegetated depression in an urban landscape that collects, treats, and recharges storm water into the ground. Because it is a garden as much as it is a ...

"We have to fix this problem," says Tiffany Conn, a spokesperson for Blueprint Columbus, the name of the city's rain garden program. "The rain gardens make a small piece of what we're trying to ...

But by including rain gardens in your landscape design, this becomes less of a problem. Further, you’ll enjoy several ...

A rain garden is a type of bioretention, constructed as a shallow depression to hold and infiltrate water from rooftops via downspouts, driveways or other impervious surfaces to reduce polluted ...

Both rain gardens were originally stocked with appropriate vegetation by the contractors that constructed them, but need maintenance, according to township Planning Director Cassandra Schmick.