What overflowing gutters do to garden beds and borders below them
A well-kept foundation border is one of those details that quietly does a lot of work for a property: hostas and hydrangeas filling in along the base of the house, a clean edge of mulch, maybe a run of astilbe or ferns in the shadier stretch near the corner. It’s also, without anyone planning it that way, sitting directly in the path of whatever a clogged gutter decides to do during the next real storm. A downspout extension routes water that successfully made it into the gutter system.
