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Art Meets Ecology In Your Back Yard
Art Meets Ecology In Your Back Yard
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Raingardens
Plantings that improve our water quality by
managing rainwater are becoming popular. Many
homeowners are realizing that they have an
opportunity to protect our precious water
resource. Landscape features that infiltrate
rainwater into the soil are designed to keep
stormwater runoff on a site rather than allowing it
to wash into out lakes and rivers. This simple
practice can reduce pollution!
managing rainwater are becoming popular. Many
homeowners are realizing that they have an
opportunity to protect our precious water
resource. Landscape features that infiltrate
rainwater into the soil are designed to keep
stormwater runoff on a site rather than allowing it
to wash into out lakes and rivers. This simple
practice can reduce pollution!
Raingarden Projects
Residential Back Yard, Minneapolis, MN
Barton Open School, Minneapolis, MN
Design: Carolin Dittmann
Installation: Shaw Design Associates
Installation: Shaw Design Associates
Stormwater runoff is a key component of non-point pollution of our precious water resource.
A number of strategies, including the use of rain barrels and permeable paving systems can be used
to capture or infiltrate rainwater. Raingardens are of special interest to Carolin because they use
plants to do an important job while adding beauty to your yard.
A number of strategies, including the use of rain barrels and permeable paving systems can be used
to capture or infiltrate rainwater. Raingardens are of special interest to Carolin because they use
plants to do an important job while adding beauty to your yard.
Click on images to enlarge
Click on images to enlarge
Verbena Design and Landscaping, LLC --- Saint Paul, Minnesota --- 612.590.5199
Carolin became interested in raingardens while working on landscape projects in yards like yours.
Every site has drainage patterns and associated opportunities and challenges. Any landscape
project imposes changes on the terrain of a property. While the priority is to keep water away
from the foundations of structures on the site (such as the home and garage) the decision of how
and where to convey rainwater that falls upon and moves across a property is an important one.
A designer must observe the existing pattern of water flow and understand how that movement
will be altered by landscaping. A landscape should be constructed to guide rainwater gracefully
away from structures and toward landscape features that allow it to infiltrate. The ultimate goal
of managing rainwater (or stormwater) is to retain a portion of that water on the property where it
falls instead of allowing it to be conveyed via streets, walkways and other paved surfaces to local
water bodies.
Every site has drainage patterns and associated opportunities and challenges. Any landscape
project imposes changes on the terrain of a property. While the priority is to keep water away
from the foundations of structures on the site (such as the home and garage) the decision of how
and where to convey rainwater that falls upon and moves across a property is an important one.
A designer must observe the existing pattern of water flow and understand how that movement
will be altered by landscaping. A landscape should be constructed to guide rainwater gracefully
away from structures and toward landscape features that allow it to infiltrate. The ultimate goal
of managing rainwater (or stormwater) is to retain a portion of that water on the property where it
falls instead of allowing it to be conveyed via streets, walkways and other paved surfaces to local
water bodies.
Click on images to enlarge
Design: Carolin Dittmann
Installation: Shaw Design Associates
Installation: Shaw Design Associates
© Carolin Dittmann