Riverside Rain Garden is a small demonstration garden that is part of a larger park plan. Done in partnership with the City of Moline, the rain garden is located next to the park building, a highly ...

A rain garden is a type of bioretention, constructed as a shallow depression to hold and infiltrate water from rooftops via downspouts, driveways or other impervious surfaces to reduce polluted ...

Officials cut the ribbon on new equipment at Stone Park, one of the Park District of La Grange’s smaller “pocket parks.” ...

to create a rain garden. Two weeks ago, volunteers with REACH began creating the garden in a section of the park where the flooding problem was most significant. They put in about 200 plants ...

This is one piece of a continuing series of stories on stormwater, how to manage it, and what is being done to control it in ...

A driveway may be utilitarian, but it doesn't have to be ugly. Here are 13 driveway landscape ideas to make yours more appealing.

In 1975, Annie Dillard won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a poetic chronicling of her creek-side ...

After one of the wettest years on record and the rainiest weeks on the horizon, households have been told to consider incorporating flood-tolerant plants into ‘rain gardens’ in their backyards.

until you develop strong opinions about the pocket knife you prefer. *Editor’s Note: Adrienne Donica and James Lynch contributed to this article. Justin Park Justin Park is a working journalist ...

We found and tested more than a dozen cool gifts, ranging from $10 to $200, that are perfect for those Angelenos who enjoy ...

A Rain Garden or "bioretention basin" is a vegetated depression in an urban landscape that collects, treats, and recharges storm water into the ground. Because it is a garden as much as it is a ...