Water features in the garden

By gardener | May 24, 2009

Creating a beautiful garden isn’t limited to just putting out pretty colorful flowers each year. In fact, there’s a wide variety of things you can do to decorate your garden, make it unique, and turn it into a serene sanctuary you’ll never want to leave.

Growing a full fledged garden with mature plants, trees, bushes, shrubs, elaborate garden beds and containers, lush grassy areas, garden furniture and other decorations takes a lot of time to do. And while you can have it all fairly quickly by hiring a professional landscaping firm to set it all up for you, taking the time to do it your way is half the fun.

And one of the best features you can add to your own garden spaces are those which involve water. Water features in the garden can range from small and simple, to large and elaborate too, it’s all up to what you personally want for your own garden spaces.

Here are some of the most common water garden features most people love to have included though…

Bird Baths – One of the most simple water features you can add to the garden is a simple premade bird bath. These are wonderful to use as both a yard and garden decoration, and as a way to attract more birds to your garden areas too.

A bird bath can be as simple as a small container filled with water, a water bowl placed on a pedestal, or a work of art which includes a little bubbling water fountain in the middle too.

Backyard Ponds – Another popular and fairly simple way to add a water feature to your garden is to put in a small backyard pond. Now this can be installed anywhere you’d like of course, and these can usually be purchased in kit form too so they’re easy to get set up.

Water Gardens – Water gardens can also be fairly easy to set up, particularly if you create them in a small ready-made pond or you create a container water garden. Larger and more elaborate water gardens can be created too of course.

Fountains & Waterfalls – These are quite popular as water features in the garden, because the movement of the water provides a soothing tranquility that helps relieve stress and block out background noises. Waterfalls and fountains can be small and free standing, wall mounted, or large and installed in the middle of a pond too.

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