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An image depicts a rain garden, which is a bed of vegetation planted for the specific purpose of retaining rainwater and limiting runoff.
Rain Gardens as a Key Stewardship Behavior
Gutters and downspouts installed onto buildings direct rainwater from roofs to rain gardens. Plants with deep root systems encourage stormwater infiltration and absorbs excess nutrient runoff.
Multiple Benefits of Rain Gardens
Conceptual diagram illustrating tabulated Best Management Practices (BMPs).
Best Management Practices (BMPs)
Illustration of a flower pot, or seedlings.
Flower pot
Wood chip mulch pile.
Wood chip mulch
View of coiled garden hose
Garden hose
The Garden District of New Orleans is famous for household gardens in courtyards such as this one.
Garden in the Garden District
Oysters (Crassostea virginica)
Oysters (Crassostrea virginica)
This vista can be found in the Garden of Eden, in Maui
Garden of Eden
Lafayette Cemetary, a famous aboveground burial place in the Garden District of New Orleans.
Lafayette Cemetary, Garden District
Lafayette Cemetary, a famous aboveground burial place in the Garden District of New Orleans.
Lafayette Cemetary, Garden District
A Taylor float is used for Oyster Gardening for oyster restoration. The PVC tubing allows these oysters to grow near the surface of the water, above water that is potentially hypoxic (with little oxygen) or anoxic (no oxygen).
Taylor float for oyster gardening
Vista from the Garden of Eden
Wrought iron balconies can regularly be found througout New Orleans and is part of the architechtural experience.
Iron balconies
Lafayette Cemetary, a famous above ground burial place in the Garden District of New Orleans.
Lafayette Cemetary, Garden District
A golf course is adjacent to hardened shoreline in Ocean Pines, Maryland. An Oyster Gardener grows oysters in a Taylor float nearby (foreground).
Golf course at Ocean Pines
These palms overlook a magnificent viewpoint from the Garden of Eden, in Maui, Hawaii
Palms with a view
Lafayette Cemetary, a famous aboveground burial place in the Garden District of New Orleans.
Lafayette Cemetary, Garden District
Lafayette Cemetary, a famous aboveground burial place in the Garden District of New Orleans.
Lafayette Cemetary, Garden District
These crane statues overlook a magnificent vista in the Garden of Eden, in Maui, Hawaii
Crane statues with a vista
Illustration of hand pruners
Hand pruners
Illustration of spray bottle
Spray bottle
Illustration of a work glove
Work glove
The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in the North End of Boston, MA.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway
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