RAINWATER – SECOND WATER SOURCE DO NOT FORGET

After the first rains of the season, the rains that grandparents often avoid even having to “bath” the trees in the garden again after these rains because the rainwater contains many acids and toxic substances, which can kill the trees.

Rainwater was very precious with the old people in the past, every house in the rain accumulates water in a pot or a brick dome. Usually, the tools are only used for eating and making tea because this is the cleanest water source for them.

Nowadays, the use of rainwater in the city is not a priority because the air in the city is polluted. So the quality of rainwater is not good. In addition, to store and use rainwater in the city is also inadequate.

But if you have a suburban piece of land, you should consider using this valuable water resource. Rainwater is great for plants, fish, and swimmers if you have a family pool. This natural source of water is better than tap water because it has a low PH. Under qualified filtration conditions, rainwater can still be used as domestic water, at least for washing, this type of domestic water accounts for 70% of total water consumption.

Wandering in the suburban neighborhoods, we will see that the village streets are all concreted, the houses of villas in the new urban areas are mostly paved with bricks, building all the land. Have we ever wondered where the rain will go? Falling rain will flow directly into the exhaust system. And, rainwater is wasting away from your house, not only that it also makes the waste system become overloaded, flooding everywhere.

There are many ways for a peri-urban home to take advantage of rainwater, here are a few ideas that we have gathered that we hope to apply to your home. In one way or another we can save this natural resource to both keep the soil moist to help the plants to cope with drought days while cooling your house naturally:

1. If you have an area of ​​several hundred meters, you should donate your garden and house a pond or an ecological swimming pond.

An ecological swimming pool is both a landscape garden and a swimming pool. A pond is a place to keep the indoor air cool when it’s hot. Rain on the water in the pond will be full of nutrients that can be used to irrigate your garden. A pond that can raise duckweed and fish, is both beautiful and a good source of fertilizer for the plants in the garden, you are creating a cycle on the small land.

Your home will not only be beautiful when it has just been built, but it will continue to be beautiful thanks to the green trees from your smart use of the energy given by heaven and earth.

The worrying thing of the pond is that it can create a mosquito breeding environment. and dragonflies make ponds not a favorable environment for them.

2. If your land is smaller, try to have a small water surface or a rain garden.

Hard surfaces such as concrete, roofs, courtyards, and roads are not soaked in water.  So when it rains a large amount of water will flow into the sewer instead of being absorbed into the ground. What is the rain garden, a space for water to flow down. With an area of ​​7-28 m2, a depth of about 10-20 centimeters usually takes two days to absorb all the rainwater. The shape of the garden, the garden embankment is designed depending on the topography of the land. So that rainwater does not overflow. There are many types of plants that are suitable for this wet garden. They do not need fertilizer. They thrive thanks to a strong root system capable of absorbing a significant amount of water. This garden is also the highlight of the landscape for your home.

Rain gardens usually drain for 12-48 hours, no standing water makes it difficult for mosquitoes to breed. The plants used in the rain garden are also insect traps or hate mosquitoes such as lemongrass and ferns.

3. Use green paver tiles to pave the yard or walkway instead of pouring concrete completely.

You can also simply conserve rainwater by considering using green paver tiles to pave your yard or walkway. The green paver tiles keep the yard clean, the grass grows green, and the rainwater still seeps into the ground easily.

4. Make green vegetation to reuse rainwater.

Green roofs covered with green color combined with water collection filter system help to have a relatively clean water source for reuse or water the remaining landscape of the whole building.

The plants can be used as vegetation

• Sedum sarmentosum is a leafy plant with green leaves, soft stems, yellow flowers, long lifespan.
  
• Sedum spurium is a tree with many beautiful colors depending on planting style, perennial plant.
  
• Sempervivum are very sturdy and they will hibernate when the weather temperature is lower than their preferred temperature.
  
• Grass, sedge, reed (Carex flacca)
  
• Delosperma cooperi is close to the chrysanthemum varieties with bright purple fuchsia lanterns, 3 – 5 cm. There are tree forms a strangely thick, straight green patch with succulent feathers. That diffuse light, looking as far as rocks on the leaves. Flowers are very strong, resistant to drought, salty soil, or even arid areas.
  
• Ophiopogon originated from Japan.

It is an evergreen tree, forming a form of perennial grass about 10–40 cm tall. Leaves are straight, rooted, long narrow, stalked, 20–40 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, and marginally serrated. Root cluster. The flowers are white to light lilac purple, growing in short stems on a stem about 5–10 cm long. The fruit is a blueberry 5–6 mm in diameter, containing 1-2 seeds.

• Thymus vulgaris or serpyllum.

Thyme is suitable the most with the hot weather, in sunny location with well-drained soil. They plant them in the spring. And then they grow as a perennial. The tree is both grown as a seasoning and for both landscape and water filtration.

• Origanum vulgare hirtum

Oregano – Origanum vulgare hirtum is a great Oregano variety for Pizza and Italian cuisine. The plant has green leaves and produces white flowers