Rain Garden

Rain Garden. As you make a rain garden, stick to plants that can tolerate wet sites. Rain gardens are designed landscape sites that reduce the flow rate, total quantity, and pollutant load of runoff from impervious urban areas like roofs, driveways, walkways,and parking lots, and compacted lawn areas.

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A rain garden is a planted low area that allows rainwater runoff from hard surfaces (like roofs, driveways, walkways and parking lots) to soak in. A rain garden is a garden of native shrubs, perennials, and flowers planted in a small depression, which is generally formed on a natural slope. Learn more about rain gardens—plus, find two rain garden plants lists and designs featuring plants for both sun and shade.

Rain gardens, also called bioretention facilities, are one of a variety of practices designed to treat polluted stormwater runoff.

Also known as bioretention, or bioinfiltration, cells, they are shallow, vegetated basins that collect and absorb runoff from rooftops, sidewalks, and streets.

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Running down the driveway or patio, rainwater can pick up lawn chemicals and pesticides. When you create a rain garden, which is a shallow, planted depression, it collects water that slowly soaks into the soil. Rain gardens help manage stormwater that runs off roofs, driveways and other surfaces.