Water
Designing Gardens for Water
11 March 2026
Where does the rain that falls on your garden actually go?
Slow, spread, store
Downpipes can feed planting beds. Paths can infiltrate. Low points can become rain gardens that flood beautifully for a day and feed the subsoil for a month. The technique is old; only the will is new.
Drought is a design problem
The same garden that floods in October is bone dry in July — because the water was never kept. Retention is the answer to both extremes at once.
Design principle
Keep water in the landscape.