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Falling In Love With Your Garden

[Guest post by Alison Kerr as part of the Show Off Your Wildlife Garden Series. Is your garden next? I hope so!] Photo is Tradescantia ohiensis – native spiderwort which is one of the earliest prairie flowers every year and my favorite. When you move to a new place there is much to discover about [...]

Stormwater Management: City or Homeowner Responsibility?

by Carole Sevilla Brown 10 Comments

What happens when 14 billion gallons of stormwater per year meet a hundred-year old system of pipes that is merged with the sewage system and is over 1600 miles long? As you can probably imagine, the result is really not pretty. But your Ecosystem Garden can help alleviate this problem, and we’ll get to that [...]

Filed under: Water Conservation Tagged with green roof, rain barrel, rain garden, stormwater management

Managing Rainwater in the Conservation Garden

by Carole Sevilla Brown 6 Comments

As the recent flooding in Missouri has so tragically shown, storm water management is an issue that must receive serious attention. As rampant development continues in this country, the earth is being smothered under the impervious surfaces of our buildings, roofs, driveways, streets, parking lots, and shopping centers. Our current method of dealing with the [...]