A demonstration of what can be accomplished through water garden landscape design. From active streams and fountains, to tranquill ponds and pools, turn your home into a water garden oasis.

Planting in the Water Garden

You have been working on the design for your water garden and your own unique look. Now you need to think about where you are going to plant your water plants, what is the best placement of the plants not only for your plants to survive but for your fish care as well. You will have surface plants, pond shelf plants, bog plants, and oxygenator plants that you can choose from when planting in and around the water garden. One of the first considerations when deciding what types of plants you are going to plant in your water garden, is that you should look at various types of heights of the plants.

Using different heights of plants in you water garden will give you a textured look, a more three d effect in the overall in the water garden. The first plant to consider buying is oxygenator plant that is known to put oxygen back into the water. This makes your job of watching oxygen levels in the water much simpler with these little plants. Be on the look out when reading through plant descriptions for the plants that are best known for adding oxygen back into the water.

When planning your water garden you should know that if you are going to use any type of bog plants that they will also spread up and grow on regular soil as well as in the water garden. If you have a nearby garden that is delicate and hard to maintain, you will want to keep your bog plants growing on the opposite end of the water garden in order to keep them from your delicate garden plants. Implementing plants on the pond shelf both in and out of the water is easily done using container plants.

These containers could be made from a more porous type basket instead of a plastic container which is simply done to control how far the plant grows out into the pond and along the pond waters while still providing the plant with all the benefits of the water that it loves so much. Some of the best and most widely used plants in the water pond include the Lobelia, the Sweet Flag, the Iris, the Parrots Feathers, Lilies, Marsh Marigolds and Hostas. You will also find a wide variety of other plants that you can use in the water garden and one thing that you can look for that will help you make the choice is colors!