Gutter Rock Garden

Our rain garden captures runoff from our house and landscape and channels the excess water into our rain garden.

Gutter rock garden.

Cost saving pvc gutter garden. Spice up your dinners with fresh herbs. A gutter garden made on a side of a garden shed or retreat made from pallets. The water is then absorbed into the soil through the network of deep plant roots.

Feb 7 2013 you may have seen my first gutter garden featured a couple of years ago on apartment therapy. Use a mix of plants adapted to your area and to the different water depths. This means you can live in a very urban area and grow as many plants as your wall space can accommodate. Rock garden feature utilizes water from downspout.

A gutter garden is perfect to add to the side of a fence. Gutter gardens are vertical so they take up virtually no floor space. Rain water passes over the gutter downspout and down the rain chain. Paint it the use of bright.

Any debris such as leaves or small sticks that would have been trapped in your gutter will simply blow off of your roof. See more ideas about gutter garden diy gutters garden. Gutter gardens sustainably sustainably diy garden yard art when growing your own lawn yard art recycled and up cycled materials can be the right location to start. Instead of a downspout with a rain chain.

Landscaping with rocks and boulders. Build a simple stand to make a hanging gutter planter and fresh herb garden. Giant galvanized stock tank as a rain barrel. Installation is fast and easy so you can quickly install these in a weekend.

Create the rain garden by building a berm in a low spot in the yard then build swales to channel runoff from the gutters and higher parts of the yard. Runoff from the roof is channeled through the gutter and downspout to an inflow point at the top of the barrel. How to design a rock garden. Water will land directly on the plants under your roof but will be in a finer spray rather than hard drops so the plants will not be damaged.

Since then i ve re designed the original using chain links. If you want a creative manner to show off your potted plant life or plant life locate an old wooden chair. Lettuces and mixed herb gutter garden. If you ve a pergola in your garden already you can easily add this diy hanging rain gutter planter to your landscaping.

Since then it s been featured in a couple of books magazines and other blogs.