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.

Water Garden Ideas

Deciding where to place your water garden and how big to make your water garden may be a little more difficult that deciding the shape of your water garden and the actual design of your water garden. Here we are going to give you a little bit of ideas and insight in to the different types of water gardens that you can design in your own lawn. While these are just a few ideas of what you can do in creating your own water garden, use these ideas to spark your imagination in building your own water garden.

The Formal Water Garden Your design of a formal water garden is a place you can relax, where everything has its own ‘place’ and is neat and orderly in fashion. A formal water garden uses straight lines in the design of not only the water body itself, but also in the path leading to the water garden, and the arrangements of the plants and flowers around the water garden. A formal water garden has a plan or a geometric design to its over all look and feel of the water, the plants and the paths that surround the water garden.

The Informal Water Garden Your design of the informal water garden is also a garden that you can go to for relaxation and quiet, but through a method of curves, variety and different ‘rooms’ within the same water garden area creating an entire inviting area that brings all of your design and details together using different angles, curves and colors. The type of home that you live in will also help you determine what type of water garden you will have. Take for example the informal country setting with a small farmhouse; this would be the type of home that would not have a formal water garden because the garden would look out of place.

The straight lines and the rigidness of the details would not be a welcoming setting in the country setting. The country home, the ranch house, or the farmhouse would welcome a curvy water garden with a small waterfall to add some detail to the water garden in this setting. Creating the water garden with a birdbath or a bird feeder will bring additional little creatures to your garden for your enjoyment. If you are using a cement or a colored pond liner, choose a similar materials or colored material so that your details will match in the garden with your accessories.

Implement a little place in your garden that you can change the flowers or add plants to each year. Small changes in the water garden will bring new details that you and your guests will enjoy for the entire summer. If you are going with a stone made pond liner, detailing your garden with stones in the path, at an arrangement as a planter or arranged as stairs will add exquisite details that you will find priceless in years to come. Adding a flag to the front or the back path to your water garden, a small one on a stake, customizes your water garden, your garden and adds a cute touch that you can be proud of!