Know the Basics of Basins
Creating depressions in your landscape is a simple, effective way to harvest rainwater, leveraging gravity to slow, spread and sink the precious liquid as it falls and moves down the grade of your landscape.
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Choose Permeable Paving
Here are some ideas for patios, pathways and other paved surfaces that allow water to infiltrate through to the earth below.
Find the guide here.
Form Landscape Mounds
Raising drought-tolerant plants up above the more water-loving species in your water-harvesting landscape makes sense. Varying heights in your landscape by mimicking the natural landforms in your area will help route and hold water during rainfall, create visual interest and create a greater variety of mini micro-climates, just like Nature does.
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