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It’s likely you’ve driven near homes with water gardens and appreciated the beautiful landscaping. After all, burbling, cascading water and the sight of a beautiful pond, fountain, or waterfall can make any back yard more attractive, as long as it’s done tastefully and well. You may have even considered having a water garden put into your own yard until you heard the cost of the project. Fortunately, you can do the work on your own water feature and save on all the labor costs of a professional job. By following a few simple guidelines, you’ll be setting yourself up to be the envy of anyone who passes your home.
You may be thinking, “But I’m not really skilled that way.” Most of us aren’t, but creating a water garden depends more on your creative planning and manual labor than it is on having advanced building skills. If you can plant a garden, you can build a great water garden in your yard.
Begin by learning your community’s guidelines about where you can put your water garden. There are likely to be rules dictating where your water feature needs to be located 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 find out 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. Once you understand what you’re dealing with, you’re free to choose a place where your water garden will be both easy to see and work properly. If you are only planning on planting water plants in and around your pond, it will be fine to locate your water garden in an area where there is no shade. However, if you want to add fish to the pool, you need to locate it where it will be shaded during the hottest times of the day.
Actually, the time you invest in planning and shopping will most likely 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. Over time, and as you are able to afford it, you can add to 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 built it yourself.
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