For city inhabitants, yard space is at a premium. With apartment houses constructed right on the streets and a small amount of communal land in back of the buildings, there’s no way to grow a garden or cultivate a lot of flowers. You can, however, think on a much smaller scale. If you have access to a balcony or a deck, or even a fire escape, you can produce a water garden in containers that will give you the semblance of an in-ground water feature. You’ll be able to hear the water running and relax while watching tiny fish swimming, grow water plants, and enjoy the peace only a water garden can offer. Water garden containers give you the basis for building a watery environment in very little space.
Locating water garden containers isn’t as hard as deciding exactly what you’d like. A recommended size for a container is 15-25 gallons, and any sort of container in that size range will be okay. You will also need containers to plant your water plants in, because plants need to be grown in separate pots and then transplanted into the water-filled container. It’s preferable to choose a container with a dark interior, because the dark color will provide your pond with the idea of depth. Dark interiors are also more practical in that they won’t be an attraction for algae and yet they’ll hide the presence of any algae that starts growing.
Your water garden needs to be located in a location where it will get at minimum six hours of sun every day. Most water plants don’t grow and flower well without at least that much sunlight, even though some bog plants will be okay with less sun. The plants you pick for your garden need to be varied for the best effect. Choose some floating, a few submerged, and emergent species when selecting the plants you would like to incorporate into your garden. Plants serve the function of shading the water which, once again, discourages the growth of algae. When you start a new water garden, however, you must expect your water to get cloudy after a couple of weeks. Just hang on, though, and the plants and fish will eventually start controlling the algae growth, and the water will clear up.
In addition to fish, you should stick a few snails in your water garden containers. Snails are critical in eating algae, fish waste products, and decaying organic matter. Small fish, such as guppies, are recommended for containers that are 20 gallons or smaller; larger than that you can add a couple of goldfish. Guppies and other types of fish like that are perfect choices, because they adapt to changes in temperature well, and they gobble up those pesky mosquitoes.
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