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Rain Gardening in the South: Ecologically Designed Gardens for Drought, Deluge and Everything in Between Paperback – Illustrated, April 30, 2009

by Helen Kraus (Author), Anne Spafford (Author)

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The first book directed at the consumer/home gardener market on this important new gardening movement, Rain Gardening in the South is a colorful, readable how-to guide on creating beautiful gardens that capture and use water that runs off roofs, driveways, and other hard surfaces in our landscape. Written by horticulturists Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford, Rain Gardening in the South helps gardeners use our most precious resource wisely. Rain gardens maximize rainwater, enhance the landscape, and promote environmental stewardship. Runoff from out yards, roofs, and driveways contributes more than a third of the pollution that ends upin our nation's waterways. Rain gardens, which function as miniature water reservoirs and filtrations systems, offer effective and visually pleasing solutions that dramatically reduce toxic runoff, resulting in cleaner rivers, lakes, and oceans. Ironically, rain gardens are more drought tolerant than most conventional gardens. Because of plant selection and their ability to store water, rain gardens flourish during dry spells as well as rainy seasons, making them particularly conducive to the South and its unpredictable rainfall. This four-color book addresses the specific environmental circumstances of southern gardeners, including climate issues, plant selection, and soil types. The book offers readers step-by-step instruction on constructing such gardens, from the design stage to post-plating maintenance. it also includes extensive design tips, plant lists, and soil amendment instructions, as well as a chapter on troubleshooting.

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"With on-going urban growth and regional climate changes, Rain Gardening in the South provides timely lessons and much-needed factual information, reminding us along the way that we are better stewards of the environment with water-wise gardening." --Bobby J. Ward, author of The Plant Hunters Garden --The Plant Hunters Garden

"Homeowners and landscapers have needed a concise guide into the uncharted waters of rain gardeningin the South... This book is filled with easy-to-understand principles we can apply to any landscape." --Pam Beck, columnist, Raleigh News & Observer and author of Best Garden Plants for North Carolina --News & Observer

"...a great addition to the home library. it's informative, but also presents rain gardens in a way that gets you excited to build one. That's a victory for any author." --Revolutionary Gardens --Revolutionary Gardens

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Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford are professors at North Carolina State University's School of Horticulture.

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Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
Paperback : 143 pages
ISBN-10 : 0982077106
ISBN-13 : 978-0982077108
Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.31 x 9.25 inches
Publisher : Eno Publishers; 1St Edition (April 30, 2009)
Language: : English

Best Sellers Rank: #1,148,396 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #84 in Temperate Climate Gardening (Books)
- #180 in South Region Gardening (Books)
- #776 in Landscape

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John Mitchell

Controlling Storm water

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It is a good book, but we have 35-40 acres draining though our yard and it is hard to handle. This book gives us a few new ideas.

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Good discussion of rain gardens

Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2016

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Good discussion of rain gardens, but I seriously question the "shade" plant selections. Additional illustrations particularly diagraming water flow would have been appreciated.

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George Winstead

One of the best yet!

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2009

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The book is actually an interesting read; more than just an instructional manual. The book goes into excellent detail on bed prep, rain garden design, and plant selection. The book also does a good job of covering other ornamental gardening basics. Although the book is primarily focused on the South, I think the basics taught would be applicable anywhere in the country.

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Rain gardening in the south

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2013

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This is a great book for anyone who is passionate about water conservation. It is simple to understand and gives you step by step instructions for creating beautiful bio-retention areas in your landscape.

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rain gardening

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2010

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Lots of good pictures - I think I would like more details in this book in terms of planting designs. The list of plant possibilities is good but would like a little more design help.

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Robert Larkins

Exactly what I was looking for

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2013

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I was surprised that this book was written with research done in North Carolina. Perfect for me! Lots of good ideas, information. Of all the rain gardening books I have read, this is one of my favorites.

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Excellent book.

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2014

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Valuable information. Excellent book.

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N. Saint

Plant list contains many invasives

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2010

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The book seems interesting, but when I turned to the plant list for rain gardens, I was appalled that so many invasive plants were listed. I was looking for information on plants that had deep tap roots to carry the water down deep and other information like that. I was disappointed.

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