Maintaining Hope – and Your Garden – for Rainy Season
December 2022. By Oscar Ortega: After months and months of attempting to will rain from the sky, it is sometimes difficult to believe it will eventually come. Part of our job in maintenance is to maintain hope – and prepare your garden to slow, spread and sink rainwater.
As we work our way through your garden and through the year, we aim to prevent pesky problems, protect property, and prepare LA for a more water positive future.
Prevent Problems
Without regular water-mindful maintenance, getting a garden ready for rain can be a hustle. Simply staying on top of the following tasks can prevent potentially costly issues down the road. We:
Protect Property
When a property is free of the urgent needs defined above, we can use our spring-to-fall time in a garden to build its equanimity to rainfall. We:
Prepare LA
While it is smart for individual property owners to save for rain-free days onsite, as a community, we desperately need to recharge our groundwater. Features like this rain garden help us do that while extending the life of stormwater infrastructure and protecting properties and neighbors from debris flow.
Many of the gardens renovated by our design+build team include substantial rain gardens. We love it! While maintenance includes all the same tasks noted above, the element of emergency is removed, as we know a garden like this can both manage substantial rainfall and enduring drought with grace.
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