The Rain Garden Handbook now available as a Kindle Book

After 10 years of answering questions about rain gardens, I decided to write a book about them.  The questions came after my husband Michael and I created a rain garden in our yard.  Although other states had already created websites about the techniques of rain gardening, our state of North Carolina had yet to introduce information about them.  So we answered questions.  Lot's of them.  If you Google rain garden, you will see that today their are over 300,000 and climbing entries on the subject.

Most often asked questions were: What is a rain garden? Does it have fish in it?  And will it attract mosquitoes? 

It took two years to write the book and another year to get it properly edited and determine the best ways to market it.  I must confess, the last year could have been smoother if I knew as much about computers, software and the internet.  But then, I'm a gardener.

I wanted to provide the information about rain gardens in the most eco-friendly way possible.  In other words, I didn't want to cut down trees and produce hundreds of copies that would need to be shipped to folks, which required the use of other natural resources to deliver to door steps.

In the future, The Rain Garden Handbook will also be available as a Google electronic download to computers and as a last resort, a printed version will be available through 'My Space' for those not comfortable with Kindle or electronic versions or that don't have the ability to purchase in that manner.  I'll get to providing those options if future months and keep you posted when they are available.

For those looking for the Kindle version look for the following picture with the title:

The Rain Garden Handbook, Creating a Garden that Captures Rain Water

I hope this book helps inspire thousands of people to create rain gardens in their yards and by doing so helping to protect our waterways and water supplies.

Look to this blog for a history of our rain garden and how the whole project got started.

Please comment on the posts and ask questions about your own rain garden or the desire to create one.

It's started to rain here.  Think I'll go watch the rain garden for awhile.