A Rain Garden Design Creates A Vibrant Atmosphere

February 10th, 2010 by Leave a reply »
A Rain Garden Design Creates A Vibrant Atmosphere

A beautiful rain garden design will enhance the pleasure that people feel in their homes. The family room with a big screen television might be a wonderful room, but a rain garden design in the yard will be a very special place. A yard established with this type of design will provide a great place for meeting with friends and family.

A rain garden design in the backyard will be full of life and vibrant color. Your Yard will become the envy of all your friends who will probably want to know how you managed such a beautiful rain garden design. Most rain garden designs are the specialty of dedicated gardeners.

Dedicated gardeners do not go to the nurseries and choose the latest sale item to throw into the backyard. These people think long and hard about a design for their gardens. They are very familiar with the most popular designs, and they decide which of these designs will be best for the space they garden. The rain garden has special characteristics. Many of these dedicated gardeners choose the rain garden design for the special qualities involved.

A Rain Garden Design Makes Great Use Of Natural Resources

A rain garden design is structured to make the best use of natural resources especially water. A rain garden should be good news for those paying the water bill. This bill should be substantially reduced by those with a rain garden for their landscapes.

This type of garden is carefully planned and constructed to capture as much water as possible for use to nourish the plants in the garden. The properly constructed rain garden design should capture water that has run off the roof or gutter of a house.

A properly planned rain garden design should also help to eliminate some of the waste that runs off the soil into fresh water sources. The plants and the soil in this type of garden are carefully planted to keep waste and pollutants from causing the damage that they often do in other gardens. Therefore a rain garden should not be located too close to buildings because this could damage these structures.

These gardens must be carefully placed to capture the water. A rain garden should be placed where the plants will get plenty of sunshine. The sunshine is necessary for the growth of the plants in a rain garden. A beautiful rain garden design will add so much beauty to a home, and those people who would like to establish a garden should look carefully at using this design.

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20 comments

  1. Anonymous says:

    I want a baby from Rick ;}
    ..maybe some ginger like him

  2. @EmuNoev pphfhahahahaha =))) !

  3. lips says:

    Try a landscape architect instead of a software program

    (Free things are worth what you pay for them.)

  4. Hi:
    I am a landscaper and designer. I have had a business for over eight years. When you create the name of your business, think of your own personality and how it can reflect on your clients. You live near the coast and are in a sub – tropical or tropical setting. Coastal Gardening may be a thought as well of Garden Scences By The Sea, Tropical Paradise Through Gardening, Gardening With Tropical Plants, Creating Coastal Gardens, or Coastal Gardenscapes.

    These are just a few that come to mind. Take some words that reflect your area and spend some time playing with the different words. Put some good thought about what your clients would like. This is what I did with my off line business as well as my on line business. I will link you to the tropics section of my website. Browse through as you may find something that may help you. Good luck to you and if I can be of any other help, let me know! Have a great day!
    Kimberly

    http://www.landscape-solutions-for-you.com/Tropics.html

  5. Inga T says:

    Hi, see if you can get someone to build you a dome out of bamboo, it doesn't need to be completely solid to give you the shade that you need and would look really natural on your roof garden.

  6. Flying Pig says:

    Better homes & garden has a free interactive landscape planing website. You'll have register to log on to their website (You don't need to buy anything or subscribe to their magazine).
    "Plan-a-Garden lets you design anything from a patio-side container garden to your whole yard. Use your mouse to "drag-and-drop" more than 150 trees, shrubs, and flowers. Add dozens of structures like buildings, sheds, fences, decks — even a pond."
    P.S. You may also have to close their magazine ad. by clicking on the x
    http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/planagardenhome_03022002.xml
    Garden Plans from Better Homes & Garden:
    http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plans/
    Garden styles & Plans:
    http://www.bhg.com/gardening/design/styles/

    Landscaping Plans from HGTV:
    http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_landscaping_design/

    Lowe's Landscape & Garden planner
    http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=pg&p=Down_to_Earth/GardenPlanner/gardenplansplash.html&rn=none

    3D Garden planner
    http://www.gardencomposer.com/demo-planner-1.html (demo)
    http://www.gardencomposer.com/demo-planner-15.html

    BBC Gardening- Virtual Design
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/virtualgarden_index.shtml

    DIY Planner
    http://www.curbly.com/DIY-Maven/posts/1496-FREE-On-Line-Garden-Planner

    Landscaping design:
    http://justgardeners.com/hrsc/articles/art_landscape-design.html

    This site contains a gallery of forum users's own pics too:
    http://justgardeners.com/hrsc/ourgardens/ourgarden_pages/ourgardens_cornus.html
    http://justgardeners.com/hrsc/ourgardens/ourgarden_pages/ourgardens_donnalockman.html
    http://justgardeners.com/hrsc/ourgardens/ourgarden_pages/ourgardens_jill.html

    Garden Web's Landscape-design forum:
    http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/design/

    Top 10 Tips for Do-It-Yourself Landscaping:
    http://landscaping.about.com/od/designexamples1/tp/do_it_yourself.htm

    Good luck! Hope this helps.

  7. i dont get it, ? its a cool song lol

  8. Oh, well I guess I lost then. I feel like downloading this song for some reason. lol

  9. I am in college right now for a degree in Horticulture. I want to do Landscape Design, and hope to go on to Landscape Architecture. As of right now, my community college only offers a degree in Horticulture, classes only for Landscape design. I am trying to get all my Gen Eds done before going for my Bachelor's Degree.
    In Landscape design, you need to know the growth habits of the plants you are using in your design, how they will mature, the Latin names because that is how they are identified in the industry, soil requirements and many other things. Your horticulture classes will teach you that.

  10. How exactly do you know when you lose this so called game?! •_•

  11. when you think of the game, you lose the game, pretty simple

  12. Just Created a personal ring tone from 0:01 to 0:41 of this video on Tube 2 Tone[dt]com.

  13. Are you a garden designer looking to get clients?

    If so, you may try flyers or an ad on Craigslist.

  14. BlueDal says:

    How about a small waterfall? Just the kind that bubbles over into a small pond. I would say add some Koi, but dogs+fish=bloody mess.
    I think it would be really cool to add a few Tea plants. Set them off in a little corner, encircled by rocks. How cool to have access to your own tea!
    Maybe some japanese-style solar lights: http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Leap2live/bghghgh.jpg

    http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Leap2live/gfhgh.jpg

    Get some rocks which have Japanese symbols ingraved, or jade colored rocks.

    A bonsai tree: http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Leap2live/bon2a.jpg

    or some cool wind chimes: http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Leap2live/485-045.jpg

  15. THE GAME I FUCKING LOST !!!!

  16. maizblues says:

    Scale is the biggest problem. Most people plant things like they will never get bigger. Consequently they plant them too close to the house or too close to other plants or they plant too many plants for a given area. If a person can imagine what the plants will look like in 10 years, that's the best way to design, unless you have been trained.

  17. Why not major in Horticulture with a minor in landscape design or architecture. That way you get the best of both worlds. You will learn about growing, living, plants and turf as well as learning how to apply this knowledge into designing it yourself before the installation. Of course you will need to have courses in botany as well as soil management or sciences and a course in entomology wouldn't hurt either. If you can graduate with at least a Bachelors you will have gained a tremendous amount of knowledge in the landscape field. In the meantime, during your summertime break, you can find seasonal work with a local landscape company. This will be a way for you to get your hands dirty and learn the trade first hand. A couple of seasons working with a good contractor, along with a degree, will get you well on your way to owning your own landscape company. Good luck!

    **Billy Ray**

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