
Regenerative Garden Design - Sid Hill - BS052
Building Sustainability Podcast
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What Is a Rain Garden?
Every year there could be a hundred thousand litrs ot a coming off of your roof. And quite often that minat can come down really quickly in a big downpour. So what a rain garden is is its taking the the water from your roof, going down your gutters and turing it in a depression so till you pretty much dig a large hole round a foot deep. You divert any of the water coming off the roof into that catchment system. If you'v got a big house and you've got a small space, you can also create a bit of a french drain in and then you plantf marginal plants,. This this rain garden. Then in the summer becomes quite
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