How Does Your Garden Grow – A Reference Guide to Enhancing Your Rain Garden (20 pp, PDF)
Department of Environmental Resources, Prince George’s County, Maryland
Rain Gardens: Managing Water Sustainably in the Garden and Designed Landscape (2007, 188 pp, Book)
Nigel Dunnett and Andy Clayden, Timber Press, Inc.
"Using the innovative and attractive approaches described here, it is possible to enhance outdoor spaces and minimize the damaging effects of drought, stormwater runoff, and other environmental challenges."
Raingardens – A How to Manual for Homeowners (2003, 32 pp, PDF)
Roger Bannerman, Wisconsin DNR and Ellen Considine, U.S. Geological Survey
"This manual provides homeowners and landscape professionals with the information needed to design and build rain gardens on residential lots. Guidelines presented in this manual can also be used to treat roof runoff at commercial and institutional sites."
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape (2006, 200 pp, Book)
Brad Lancaster, Rainsource Press
"This is Volume One of the three-volume set, Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands. Volume One helps bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow you with skills of self-reliance, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. It's full of stories of people who are successfully welcoming rain into their life and landscape and will invite you to do the same. Taken together, the complete three-volume set guides you on how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community."
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks (2006, 448 pp, Book)
Brad Lancaster, Chelsea Green Publishing
"Building on the information presented in Volume 1, this book shows you how to select, place, size, construct, and plant your chosen water-harvesting earthworks. It presents detailed how-to information and variations of a diverse array of earthworks, including chapters on mulch, vegetation, and greywater recycling so you can customize the techniques to the unique requirements of your site."
Rainwater Harvesting: Raingardens (2008, 6 pp, PDF)
AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M University
"A raingarden is in artificial depression in the landscape that collects and stores rainfall runoff until it can infiltrate the soil. Raingardens help conserve water and protect it from surface pollution. In this publication you'll learn how to design and install a raingarden and how to select the right location for it."
Revegetate Using Native Species: Naturalized Basin (Webpage)
StormwaterPA.org
Riparian Buffer Restoration (Webpage)
StormwaterPA.org
Vegetated Swale (Webpage)
StormwaterPA.org
