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article: Affordable Small Water Gardens
Affordable Small Water Gardens
Gardening on a budget is not as tough as you thought. If you want a water garden
you can have one – you just have to be a bit creative in where you find the
materials and in the planning of your water garden. Doing the project yourself
is going to save so much money that you are going to be excited about what else
you can do when building a water garden. Contractors are expensive, but doing
the work yourself you can afford a few other accessories that you have been
dreaming about.
Starting out you need to plan your water garden. You will hear this over and
over again. If you start digging without planning where you are placing your
water garden and the size of your water garden, your project can get out of hand
with expenses and materials.
After you have planned on where you are going to put your water garden, you can
think about the size. When on a strict budget, you want to get the most for your
money. The smallest water garden is actually going to be less expensive using a
preformed pond liner. The preformed pond liner prevents you from having to spend
more on other materials year after year, such as the plastic lining, concrete
repairs and a preformed pond liner is going to make your project look more
professional overall.
Choose a size of a preformed liner that is going to fit your budget. If you are
not planning to raise fish because you don’t want the added expense you can pick
one, any size or shape that fits your budget instead of fitting the size and
types of fish that you are going to raise. When you are on a budget, you won’t
want to raise fish so you don’t have the added expense of having to get a
filter, or other types like filtration systems.
While you are in the planning stages of your water garden, you can collect shell
from around the driveway, along the road and anywhere else you can find it. The
smaller the water garden, the less shell that you need to gather.
Under the water garden, you also are going to want to put some sand so you can
protect the pond liner from ripping or breaking the shell. The sand also allows
you to level out the pond liner without having to dig more soil out.
You can fill the water garden with water from the rain if you are starting your
project in the very early spring. This will save you a few dollars on the
budget. If you want to put more water in the small water garden you can also set
out five gallon buckets and collect additional rainwater at the same time so you
can fill your pond faster. Some areas of the world that are hit the hardest with
droughts will collect water all spring for use in the water garden as a source
of conserving water.
You do not have to pay big bucks to decorate or detail your water garden. You
can collect small pieces of plants from other water gardeners and you can ask
friends or family for divided pieces of their water garden plants. Decorating
your small water garden with fresh plants that will grow in and around the water
is easy when you meet other people who also have water gardens in their
landscape.
If you do not know any one who has a water garden, you can purchase water garden
plants in just about any retail gardening center, but you just have to watch for
sales for the best prices that will fit your budget! By the end of your first
water gardening summer, your landscape will be beautiful.
No matter what type of water garden you are building, there are many ways that
you can cut corners and save money. You can use stone that you find free instead
of purchasing bricks or concrete to create the paths of the garden. You can get
plants and fish from friends or relatives instead of purchasing them. The water
garden is complete with a natural setting that you complete using your
imagination; just remember to have fun doing it!

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