As the rains come in and sweep across Texas, a proper drainage system can be difference between saving your landscape and yard and having standing water that makes your lawn soggy. During heavy rainfall, here are 5 outdoor areas that need a proper drainage system. Front Yard While water features are an impressive element to see in your front yard, standing water is not a sight you'd like to behold. Front yards, with its relatively flat terrain and surface, are not only the most noticeable outdoor area when your place gets flooded, it's also one of the hardest places to clean up after a … [Read more...]

Behind the picture-perfect landscape of your outdoor area, there's an underlying system which makes it all work—a functioning drainage system. If you have a relatively flat outdoor area, a proper drainage is needed to ensure it doesn't turn into a swamp when heavy rains come in. Even a difference in elevation poses a problem as low-lying areas become the catch basin for all the excess water the ground and plants cannot absorb. To take care of all this excess water, we'll discuss the different drainage systems you can install in your backyard. Take note each drainage system is designed … [Read more...]