- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Voyageur Press Inc (1 Feb 2012)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0760340447
- ISBN-13: 978-0760340448
- Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,192,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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""Rain Gardens" should be in every county extension office library, every bookstore, every home improvement store, and on your bookshelf if you have a property that can benefit from having a rain garden. Buy it and build it." - "Horticulture Magazine"
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Rain gardens are at the forefront of the green revolution. This environmentally friendly landscaping captures rainwater runoff rather than redirecting it into storm drains. The result is less erosion, less water pollution, and a beautiful, low-maintenance, sustainable garden. This is the first rain garden handbook for the backyard home gardener. Coauthors Robert Domm and Lynn Steiner draw on hands-on experience to help homeowners build beautiful rain gardens in their own yards. Illustrated with color photography, this instructive book offers specific advice about planning, building, planting, and maintaining your garden. Learn about city grants, how to calculate runoff, rain barrels, attracting wildlife, gray water recycling, and much more.
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Rain Gardens Made Easy
7 Mar 2012
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This is the best comprehensive guide to rain gardens I have seen! The book's introduction educates the reader about water, explains what a rain garden is and its purpose. Steps for planning and constructing a rain garden are well explained and fully illustrated. Common tools needed are described and often picture, which is a great aid to the do-it-your-selfer. Use of soil amendments and mulch are discussed and easy methods to calculate needed amounts are described. Lists of plants to encourage wildlife (hummingbirds and butterflies) discourage consumption by deer and provide seasonal interest are included. Especially helpful is the list of plants that tolerate road salt, since rain gardens built near roads have to deal with salt used on the roads for winter maintenance. Hints on selecting and purchasing plants--including use of natives as well as cultivars--are included and many plants are pictured and described in detail--height, bloom time and light requirements as well as their potential aggressively nature are discussed. There is a discussion of plants to avoid and a useful guide to perennials and grasses by height. One of the best in-depth features of this book is a long chapter on maintaining a rain garden. It covers subjects such as making and using compost, pruning of shrubs and hints on best times to add plants, weed, deadhead spent flowers, cut plants back.
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