A Beautiful Local Rain Garden Story. In the spring of 2012, we designed and installed rain gardens at an inn on Lake George. This spring, we added more plants to enhance the design. Native plants typically focus on developing their root systems during their first year. Certainly, the gardens would be more spectacular and fuller […]
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Bioretention Pond A bioretention pond is essentially a sophisticated feature of rain gardens. Not every rain garden needs a bioretention zone. Many rain gardens can exist in blissful simplicity. But on sites with serious drainage issues, large quantities of water, it may be necessary to do some excavation work. Layers of different sized strata help
What is a rain garden? From an article elsewhere on our blog: “Rain gardens are the future of stormwater management. Imagine a system that harnesses nature to re-engineer a site to capture and sequester toxic runoff before it even starts. And habitat restoration with native plants for butterfly + pollinator gardens are part of the
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Rain Gardens in Niskayuna, NY In beautiful Niskayuna, NY near the Mohawk River, there are a lot of families who have called our company in recent years to create new rain gardens on their wetland adjacent properties. We love this work. Rain gardens are the future of stormwater management. Imagine a system that harnesses nature
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More Rain Gardens. In spring a while ago, Jessecology designed and installed some rain gardens in Lake George. The gardens were created at an inn right on the lake. Later, we added more plants into the design. Recently we stopped by to see the progress of these Lake George rain gardens in their maturity. Native
Rain Gardens in NY Rain Gardens in NY: A Natural Solution for Stormwater Management. Presently, we planted a series of rain gardens in New York by a beautiful lake. Each rain garden, composed entirely of native plants, is designed to blend functionality with beauty. For example, the shade garden, pictured below, features a variety of
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Lake George Rain Gardens Progress A recent year we collaborated with some other local contractors on a large rain garden project in Lake George, NY. This week we returned to take some photos of the rain gardens progress. Shown above is the rain garden that we manipulated to behave as a wetland habitat; this piece
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