Designing your Outdoor Space with a Lovely Water Garden
January 27, 2010
Most likely you’ve driven near homes with water gardens and enjoyed the attractive landscaping. After all, bubbling, cascading water and the display presented by a beautiful pond, fountain, or waterfall can make any yard prettier, as long as it’s designed tastefully and well. You may have even considered having a water garden put into your own yard until you learned the price. Fortunately, you can build your own water feature and save on all the labor costs you’d have to pay otherwise. By following a few basic steps, you’ll be well on your way to being the envy of anyone who passes your home.
You may be objecting, “But I’m not very handy that way.” Lots of us aren’t, but developing a water garden is more dependent on your creative planning and hard work than it is on having specific building skills. If you can garden, you can build a great water garden in your yard.
Start by discovering your town’s codes about where you can put your water garden. There are likely to be rules dictating where your water feature can be placed as well as its size and depth. Some towns will have safety rules, such as how deep you can build your pond without being required to fence in the area. You will also need to learn where pipes, wiring, septic system, or other subterranean utility features are buried, because you obviously can’t dig in those areas.
Select your location carefully. After you know what you’re dealing with, you’re free to choose a location where your water garden will be both easy to see and work properly. If you are only going to be growing water plants in and surrounding your pond, there will be no problem in placing your water garden in an area where there is no shade. However, if you would like to to add fish to the pool, you need to locate it where it will be shaded during the times of day when temperatures are at their peak.
Actually, the time you take planning and shopping will be apt to take you longer than building the water garden itself. You can start out with nothing more than a small pump, a pond liner, and a shovel. Over time, and as you are able to afford it, you can add onto your water feature and make it more intricate and appealing so that after awhile you’ll have the water garden you always dreamed about, and you’ll have created it yourself.
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