Establishing Your Water Garden

ESTABLISHING YOUR WATER GARDEN

When you plan for your water garden, you’ve to decide the size of your garden, the amount you want to spend, since establishing it, requires big amount especially if you’re on a large water garden with full of plants, rocks, light, and some species of fish.

Also consider your capacity to handle base on the size of your area, the time required and maintaining your garden.

All of these factors rests on the success and failure of your project.

However, if you’re determined to go on with your plan, the bottom line is your will power to act according to your plan.

Water gardening is a peasant hobby especially if your water gardens is blooming with water lilies, hyacinths and lotus are beautifully and pleasingly in good sights.

Combined with ferns and evergreens and filled with exotic fishes, your water garden becomes charming aquatic garden full of life and beauty.

Preparing the garden

Generally, there are two types of water gardens: the formal and informal.

The type of water garden should harmonize with the home flower garden or with the surrounding premises.

Concrete pools, tubs and aquariums are artificial water gardens which adds beauty and elegance to a place.

You should treat your water garden like a well-balance aquarium to maintain clear water. The bottom should be filled with rich clayey soil to provide enough plant food.

Add sad, fine gravel and rocks on top to prevent the water from having a muddy appearance caused by the movement of fish and other aquatic animals.

You have to place around the water garden some flower beds, wooden or concrete benches ad sculptured garden ornaments to cast reflections on the water surface.

Some plants ideal for water garden

The followings are floating, submerged or semi-aquatic plants that may be grown in water garden …

1) Water lily hybrids

2) Lotus, Nelumbium elumbo

3) Umbrella plant

4) Water hyacinths

5) Pickerel weed

6) Quiapo

7) Striped corn plant

8) Corn plant

9) Baston de San Jose

10) Fragrant dracaena

11) San Francisco

12) Aglaonema

13) Varieties of papua

14) Varieties of dieffenbachia

15) Coleus, mayana

16) Philodendron

17) Yellow water plant

18) Wandering Jew

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