Did you know that you combat floods with little more than one shovel, a few square meters of your garden and some plants, fill up groundwater, improve water quality and benefit the local ecosystem? It is not a magic – it is a rain garden!
Rain gardens are flat, planted depressions that collect drainage of roofs, parking spaces, entrances and even lawns – a place where water can soak hard. The development increases the drain and leads to faster, higher rivers and more common floods. Rain gardens help by holding water, flows the electricity and soaking the water and charging the groundwater.
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