Water Garden Landscaping Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Water Garden Landscaping To Escape In Your Yard
By Rodger G Allenby
Water garden landscaping can improve your garden, with a water
feature to create a quiet spot in your garden. You may think you
need a spot where you can escape from the noise of everyday life
and enjoy the sound of water splashing down a small waterfall.
There are times when you need to escape from it all, while enjoying
the peace and quiet in your garden, with ornamental grass as a
private screen, you may even be able to hide from your family!
Many people use their garden as a therapeutic tool, especially
the elderly, disabled and those looking for something different
to do around the home. Sometimes you need to get away from noisy
televisions and ringing telephones bringing you bad news.
Escaping to your garden, is your reward, for working so hard,
to achieve so much in your life. Now you can join the quiet of
your yard and listen to the water splashing down the small waterfall
and the birds chirping their summer songs.
Relaxing Next To Your Garden With The Sound Of Water
Water gardens are a popular landscaping project these days. Perhaps
it’s because our lives are so hectic, we crave a little spot in
the garden where we can go for a quiet and relaxing spot of rest,
right in our own yard.
The sound of water, trickling down a small fall, has a comforting
musical quality. Stocking your water garden with Koi fish creates
a visually peaceful environment which makes it easy to wind down
and forget that bad hair day.
Get Ideas By Searching Online For Water Garden Designs
You’ve probably admired some water garden designs at the nursery,
but perhaps thought you needed a professional to do the job. While
you can certainly hire a pro, it’s a very doable project for the
DIYer. The area you’ll devote to the water garden landscaping
is relatively small, so the actual work involved is not so great
as the amount of research you’ll want to do before selecting your
plants.
To this purpose, your first step should be an online image search
of water garden designs, both as landscaping features and in natural
settings. You’ll want to tailor your image search such that the
plants are native to your region.
Finding Out About The Best Plants For Your Local COnditions
For example, if you live in the Northwest, on the coast, Google
‘northwest coast water gardens’, or ‘northwest coast wetlands’.
Click through to sites where the image approximates or matches
the mood and general appearance you find pleasing.
Typically, the article or caption that accompanies the image
gives the names of the various plants of the area. Do some exploring
and save the images you like in a directory on your computer,
along with text files with the names of the plants.
Fitting The Design Into Your Yard
Your water garden landscaping design should take into account
how your water garden fits in to the rest of your landscaping.
If you have a large piece of land, it’s far easier to create an
obviously separate area, with a ’mood’ of its own, in keeping
with a natural wetlands area.
In an average sized back yard, water garden landscaping designs
must be carefully scaled and placed to successfully create the
quiet ambience and natural setting you desire. Let’s say that
the area you have to work with is about 10 by 20 feet.
Visit Your Local Nursery To Find Suitable Plants For Your Area
You’ve got your heart set on a water garden that simulates a
natural wetland area, with ornamental grasses and native wildflowers.
Make prints of your favorite images and consult with your local
nurseryman to see if there are ornamental grasses available, on
a smaller scale, which are similar in texture and appearance to
the ones you’ve collected in your images.
Ask about perennials which are similar in habit, color and growth
to the ones in the natural setting. Investigate sources of natural
rock that will build on the mood you’re trying to recreate in
your water garden landscaping design.
Using Ornamental Grasses As A Natural Privacy Screen
Now you’ll want to think about how to set off your water garden
as a private area, distinct from the rest of the garden, while
still being integrated into the rest of your landscape. For example,
you might want to use ornamental grasses as a natural privacy
screen, planted in a semi-circular enclosure around the water
garden.
With these grasses serving as a natural ‘fence’, leave room for
a bench, chaise lounge or a comfortable rattan chair and foot
stool. Consider if statuary might be a desirable feature. How
about lighting features?
The Most Rewarding Project
In short, your water garden landscaping plan should incorporate
the most desirable plants and features that will make your water
garden a place you’ll want to retreat to often. The ultimate success
of your water garden lies in good research and planning.
The actual work involved then becomes easy. You’ll find that
water garden landscaping may be the perfect and most rewarding
of DIY projects.
Choosing A Professional Landscaping Company
If you have a large yard and it looks like your project may need
a professional, you should get quotes from local landscaping companies
to create the water garden for you. You may find a professional,
may do the job much quicker and may be more efficient, than trying
to find time in your busy life, trying to do the work yourself.
If the professional does a good job, then you may use the same
professional the next time you need to upgrade the landscape in
your backyard. As long as you have a professional, you may ask
what ideas the professional has, about improving the landscape
in your yard.
Landscaping Ideas For Your Backyard
He may suggest a couple of miniature fruit trees, a stone walkway
and a few shrubs, to make the yard much more interesting. Depending
on your budget, there may be a reasonable cost to include these
options as part of your landscaping design for your backyard.
If you are restricted for funds, you can look at the best price
for water garden landscaping. The best price, does not mean the
cheapest price, but the quality of the work, for the price offered.
After all, you do not want to pay the cheapest price and receive
poor quality landscaping in your yard.
You should speak to previous customers of the landscaping company,
before you choose the best quote for your water garden landscaping.
About the Author:
Rodger G Allenby has written a number of articles on gardening
and landscaping including Above
Ground Storage Tank, Grass
Seed For Your Lawn, Mum
Flowers Are Perfect, Garden
Supplies To Maintain Your Garden, Green
Lawn, Hummingbird
Feeders, Backyard
Ideas, Bird
Baths, Gardening
Tools, Backyard
Putting Green, Backyard
Landscaping Pictures, Outdoor
Fire Pit, Underground
Pet Fence, Potting
Table, Fish
Ponds .
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
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