The 100-square-foot rain garden that Eric and Lusana Cacioppo dug in their Chicago-area yard two years ago works like a charm. No more waterlogged lawn, no more standing water and, voila, far, far fewer mosquitoes. The garden is thriving (and thrived even through the great drought of 2005). The goldenrod is so happy it is getting too fat and bushy and will have to be thinned. That tends to happen with rain garden plants: They like the life.
What is a rain garden? It's not a water garden. Not a puddle (that's what the Cacioppos had before, kept wet not only by rain but by underground springs).
A rain garden is more like...
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