You’ve probably driven by properties with water gardens and enjoyed the attractive landscaping. After all, bubbling, cascading water and the backdrop of a beautiful pond, fountain, or waterfall can make any back yard more attractive, as long as it’s done with taste and an eye for curb appeal. You may have even dreamed of having a water garden built into your own yard until you learned the price. Fortunately, you can do the work on your own water feature and not have to pay all the labor costs of a professional job. By following a few basic directions, you’ll be setting yourself up to be the envy of anyone who passes your home.
You may be objecting, “But I’m not really skilled that way.” The majority of us aren’t, but creating a water garden depends more on your creative planning and hard work than it is on having specific building skills. If you can plant a garden, you can build an eye-catching water garden in your yard.
Begin by learning your town’s codes about where you can put your water garden. There are most likely regulations dictating where your water feature can be placed as well as its size and depth. Some towns will have guidelines to ensure safety, such as how deep you can dig your pond without needing to fence in the area. You will also need to find out where pipes, wiring, septic system, or other subterranean utility features are buried, because you definitely can’t dig in those areas.
Decide on your location carefully. Once you understand what you’re working around, you’re free to choose a location where your water garden will be both easy to see and useful. If you are only going to be planting water plants in and surrounding your pond, it will be fine to locate your water garden in an area where there is no shade. However, if you plan to add fish to the pool, you have to locate it where there will be some shade during the times of day when temperatures are at their peak.
Actually, the time you invest in 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 goes by, and as you can afford it, you can add more onto your water feature and make it more detailed and fancier so that after awhile you’ll have the water garden you always wanted, and you’ll have created it yourself.
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