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Rain Gardens

A smart landscape design makes the best of every precious drop of rain. Add beauty to your outdoor space while protecting one of our most valuable resources with a rain garden – a sustainable, naturalistic alternative to a conventional North Texas landscape.

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Rain Gardens for North Texas

Rain gardens are making quite an impression in our North Texas region and for good reason. These beautiful landscape features are both low maintenance and earth-friendly.

Front Yard Rain Garden
New rain garden after a rain

A well-designed rain garden is sustainable and attractive. Your rain garden can reduce or even eliminate the need for watering, mowing, fertilizers, and chemical controls, plus:

  • Conserve water and keep your landscape lush and colorful
  • Add beauty and year-round interest
  • Attract wildlife, plus all the other advantages of a native landscape
  • Improve drainage issues around your foundation
  • Reduce maintenance needs
  • Reduce stormwater runoff, erosion, and water contamination
  • Increase groundwater infiltration and purification of contaminants

Ultimately, save water, money, effort, and the environment – and get a beautiful garden in return!

Ready to plan your own Rain Garden?

Dubberley Landscape specializes in designing and building sustainable landscapes featuring rain gardens with native plants. Contact Carrie Dubberley to get started with your own rain garden project.

Interested in more ways to make your landscape sustainable?

We can take your native landscape and rain garden to the next level with rainwater harvesting systems, efficient irrigation practices.

Learn more about Rain Gardens

Read the Rain Garden FAQ to learn more and check out more photos in the gallery. If you have any questions, drop us a line.

Rain Garden Before and After
Visit the rain garden gallery for more photos

Rain Gardens and Native Landscapes

Rain Gardens are planted with drought-tolerant native plants that can also take the occasional wet conditions after a heavy rain. Dubberley Landscape specializes in Texas Native and Well-Adapted plants for your custom North Texas rain garden.

Rain Garden FAQ

If you have any questions not answered here, please contact Carrie.

Simply put, a rain garden is a depression, or swale, in the landscape that collects and stores rain water, allowing it to infiltrate the soil and not run off your property. Planted with the right plants that can thrive in both wet and dry conditions, a rain garden can add beauty and interest to your landscape year round.

Looking at the bigger picture, rain gardens reduce storm water runoff and allow for groundwater systems to recharge. This also reduces your need to irrigate your garden, saving water, money, and effort.

During drought, a rain garden captures every elusive drop to keep our landscapes lush and green. In periods of heavy rain, rain gardens ease the force of flooding and erosion by allowing storm water to infiltrate slowly into the ground.

In the long run, rain gardens also save money by conserving water, and reducing maintenance and energy use. The reduction in the need for chemical controls makes them a healthier environment for everyone: people, pets, and the native wildlife.

Last but not least, rain gardens add an element of natural beauty without the back-breaking effort of a high-maintenance landscape! This is something you can truly enjoy season after season.

Reducing stormwater runoff means less severe flooding, less erosion, less pollution and sediment entering our rivers and lakes and overall less reliance on water to keep our landscapes lush and colorful.

Urbanization has increased the impervious surfaces (roof-tops, concrete, patios, even lawns) in our environment. Water runs right off impenetrable surfaces and into storm drains, picking up chemicals and waste along the way, ultimately contaminating our streams and lakes.

Runoff prevents the recharge of groundwater, as we also lose water for landscape irrigation. Instead we rely on treated municipal water, adding to the demand on an increasingly stressed water supply.

Rain gardens create a natural process of capturing, absorbing and filtering water, so your landscape can take advantage of precious rainfall, and our impact on our stressed Eco-system is minimized.

Although rain gardens can be relatively costly to construct, they often replace maintenance intensive landscape areas, so net costs over time become considerably less than conventional landscapes. In addition, the use of rain gardens can decrease the cost for stormwater conveyance systems at a site. Costs are estimated at $10 to $12 per square foot to construct [source].

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