It’s likely you’ve driven by homes with water gardens and enjoyed the beautiful landscaping. After all, burbling, cascading water and the display presented by a beautiful pond, fountain, or waterfall can make any garden more noteworthy, as long as it’s done with taste and an eye for curb appeal. You might have even thought about having a water garden put into your own yard until you learned what it would cost. Fortunately, you can build your own water feature and save paying 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 very handy that way.” Lots of us aren’t, but building a water garden is more dependent on your creative planning and hard work 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 discovering your town’s guidelines about where you can put your water garden. There are most likely regulations governing the placement of your water feature as well as its size and depth. Some towns will have safety guidelines, such as how deep you can build your pond without being required to fence in the area. You may also need to find out where pipes, wiring, septic system, or other subterranean utility features are located, because you definitely can’t excavate in those areas.

Choose your location carefully. Once you comprehend what you’re dealing with, you’re free to choose an area where your water garden will be both visible and useful. If you are only going to be growing 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 plan to add fish to the pool, you need to locate it where where it will receive some shade during the hottest times of the day.

Actually, the time you take planning and shopping will probably 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 are able to afford it, you can add to your water feature and make it more complex and decorative so that after awhile you’ll have the water garden you always dreamed of, and you’ll have developed it yourself.

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