Landscaping your Backyard with a Gorgeous Water Garden

Jan 02 2010

Landscaping your Backyard with a Gorgeous Water Garden

Most likely you’ve driven near homes with water gardens and enjoyed the beautiful landscaping. After all, burbling, cascading water and the backdrop of a beautiful pond, fountain, or waterfall can make any yard more attractive, as long as it’s created tastefully and well. You might have even considered having a water garden built into your own yard until you heard the price. Fortunately, you can build your own water feature and not have to pay all the labor costs involved. By following a few simple directions, you’ll be well on your way to being the envy of everyone who drives by.

You may be thinking, “But I’m not especially talented that way.” Most of us aren’t, but developing a water garden depends more on your creative planning and manual labor than it is on having specific building skills. If you can garden, you can build an eye-catching water garden in your yard.

Get started by learning your community’s codes about where you can locate your water garden. There are probably rules governing where your water feature needs to be located as well as its size and depth. Some towns will have safety guidelines, such as how deep you can build your pond without needing to fence in the area. You are going to also need to find out where pipes, wiring, septic system, or other subterranean utility features are located, because you obviously can’t dig in those areas.

Decide on your location carefully. Once you comprehend what you’re working around, you’re free to choose a location where your water garden will be both visible and functional. If you are only planning on 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 want to add fish to the pool, you have 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 get started with nothing more than a small pump, a pond liner, and a shovel. As time passes, and as you are able to afford it, you can add more onto your water feature and make it more detailed and decorative so that someday you’ll have the water garden you always dreamed of, and you’ll have developed it yourself.

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