Posted on Fri, May. 16, 2008

Take a garden tour

By Andy Mead

amead@herald-leader.com

Lexington's first rain garden tour takes place Sunday.

The tour, which is free, begins at the Arboretum on Alumni Drive at 1 p.m., then moves to five gardens at private homes. It is expected to end about 5 p.m.

Rain gardens are shallow depressions that hold rain water long enough for it to soak into the ground rather than rushing to a street or storm sewer. The tour is sponsored by the Bluegrass Rain Garden Alliance, which hopes to register 2,010 rain gardens by 2010.

For more information, go to http://bluegrassraingardenalliance.org.