July was a crazy month for rain here. It was bad enough in Toronto where I live, but we had nothing on poor Ottawa: Canada’s ...
When it rains for days, water scarcity for plants shouldn’t really be an issue. After all, the soil is moist, and more water ...
What is a rain garden, and how does it work? Rain gardens, sometimes called bio-retention areas, are shallow depressions in the landscape that capture stormwater and allow it to gradually percolate ...
When a nor’easter recently hit the Eastern Seaboard, it transformed my driveway into a stretch of whitewater rapids and nearly obliterated my perennials, their shapes irretrievably distorted by high ...