The Buzz about Water Gardens

How To Build A Pond Water Garden
Michalis 'BIG Mike' Kotzakolios

A lot of people have marveled at the sight of a pond water garden. They have admired it and often, they have dreamt of having one right in their own backyard.

What's stopping them?

Well, building a pond water garden can seem like a daunting task. It is quite intimidating, considering the materials you will need, the intensive labor you will have to devote, and the landscaping skills you'd need to employ.

These, however, are often exaggerated. With the abundance of water garden kits these, building a pond has been made easier. Not easy - but easier. As a matter of fact, the manual work would only involve preparing the land upon which the pond will be built.

The first step in building a pond lies in determining location. As a rule, if you're considering a pond, you'd need an empty lot with a diameter of at least 12'. If you can't afford this big a space, consider water falls instead, or maybe even container water gardens.

But if you do have such a space, the next thing to consider is the depth of the hole you will have to dig up. As a rule, you'd need to dig down to a minimum of 2' from the surface. This would be your deepest level. Subterranean elevations for ponds get higher towards the sides.

Once the hole is dug up, you'd have to line up the lowest levels with pond underlayment. This is to prevent the soil from contaminating the water. Your power pump and power filter could only do so much after all. And you'd want your pond to have clean water, as much as possible.

Insert the plumbing tubes parallel to the bottom of the pond so that it would siphon water from below. The plumbing should then be connected to another tube going upwards to where the water pump should be.

A great design would be to build staircase-like elevations from the deepest portion of the pond towards the surface. This would allow you to create a water falls effect. It may be small, but it should be a nice touch nonetheless.

To create the cascading effect, you could mold a hump at the edge of each staircase platform, so that when the water passes above it, it'll hop and fall with greater force.

One end of the edge should house your water pump, as connected to the water supply.

Decorate the edges with pebbles and sand

Fill it up with water.

And there you have it... a pond water garden that would give vibrancy to your backyard!

BIG Mike is a well known author, developer and Adsense expert as well as the owner of Niche Maniacs - a unique Adsense Marketing System designed to build long-term passive income streams from Adsense, Amazon, YPN, Chitika and other PPC services.