This morning’s rain, the big stuff, the blow-the-roof-off, turn-semi’s-over, strip-every-green-and-flowering-thing kind of rain is now in West Virginia and we just had a soft, leftover shower, the kind that doesn’t even show up on radar and the birds sing through. …
Read More »What I’m NOT doing this weekend: laundry, giving the kids baths, running the dishwasher. Why the water austerity, you may ask? You may have noticed that it has been raining a lot lately. When I glance out the window, I …
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The Green Learning Station is proud to be the highest tech parking lot in the Midwest. We are home to an experiment comparing six types of pavement, five of which let water flow through them. How does pervious paving work? …
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Part of the problem with understanding how things work is that it can be hard to forget them. Take for instance the rain we have been getting for the past 36 hours. Because I teach about this subject for a living, I …
Read More »I am one happy gardener this week! I live on a steep slope and have been battling erosion issues after heavy rainfalls for years. I’ve built terraces. I’ve had french drains installed. I’ve planted rugged plants that will “hold the …
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It is Earth Day and here at the Civic Garden Center we are excited to see our first pervious paving test areas functioning beautifully in the intense rains we have had. Unfortunately, when it rains significantly in Cincinnati, our combined …
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The sedum atop Cincinnati’s first sloped green roof, growing atop a stone cottage at the Civic Garden Center, is reemerging from winter dormacy. Those of us who walk by it every day marvel at the colors popping up out of …
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In case you missed our display at the Home and Garden Show, one of the favorite featured components was our rain barrel. We always get lots of questions about how to hook up and use a rain barrel at the …
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Thanks to the support of the Ohio EPA, middle and high school classes will be able to attend field trips at the Green Learning Station free of charge… they won’t even have to pay for the bus to get them …
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