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Rain Gardens: Sustainable Landscaping for a Beautiful Yard and a Healthy World
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Product Description 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. Co-authors 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. Review “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 From the Back Cover Rain gardens allow rainwater to follow the natural course of the water cycle—absorbed into the ground, taken up by plants, and evaporated back into the atmosphere. This landscaping choice encourages rainfall on your property to stay on your property, where it can recharge the groundwater, irrigate your trees and shrubs, and even save you money on your water bill. The latest trend in the green revolution, rain gardens cost little to build, can be installed on just about any property, and provide huge ecological benefits by minimizing erosion and reducing water pollution, all while adding to the beauty of your yard with an easy-to-maintain, sustainable garden. And they can help keep your basement dry. In this first user-friendly rain garden handbook designed exclusively for the backyard gardener, hydrology scientist Robert Domm and master gardener Lynn Steiner provide simple, low-cost ideas and advice to help you create your own rain garden using native flowers, shrubs, and trees. About the Author Lynn Steiner is a degreed horticulturalist and a frequent speaker at gardening and environmental events. She is the author of three Landscaping with Native Plants books and the former editor of Northern Gardener magazine. Robert Domm is a hydrology scientist with a working knowledge of rain garden design and function. A writer and photographer, Domm is published in Sierra and National Wildlife. www.rdommphoto.com
