Creating your Own Gorgeous Water Garden

Apr 30 2010

Creating your Own Gorgeous Water Garden

You’ve probably driven near homes with water gardens and appreciated the attractive landscaping. After all, burbling, cascading water and the display presented by a beautiful pond, fountain, or waterfall can make any yard more noteworthy, as long as it’s created with taste and an eye for curb appeal. You may have even thought about having a water garden built into your own yard until you learned the price. Fortunately, you can build your own water feature and save paying all the labor costs you’d have to pay otherwise. By following a few general steps, you’ll be setting yourself up to be the envy of all passersby.

You may be objecting, “But I’m not really skilled that way.” Lots of us aren’t, but building a water garden depends more on your creative abilities and hard work than it is on having a resume filled with building skills. If you can garden, you can build an eye-catching water garden in your yard.

Start by discovering your town’s codes about where you can locate your water garden. There are likely to be regulations dictating where your water feature needs to be located as well as its size and depth. Some towns will have guidelines to ensure safety, such as how deep you can build your pond without needing to fence in the area. You will also need to know where pipes, wiring, septic system, or other underground utility features are situated, because you certainly can’t dig in those areas.

Choose your location carefully. After you know what you’re dealing with, you’re free to choose a place where your water garden will be both easy to see and functional. If you are only planning on planting water plants in and surrounding your pond, it won’t be any problem for you to locate your water garden in an area where there is no shade. However, if you would like to to add fish to the pool, you have to locate it where it will be shaded during the hottest times of the day.

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. As time passes, and as you can afford it, you can add to your water feature and make it more intricate and fancier so that eventually you’ll have the water garden you always dreamed about, and you’ll have built it yourself.

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