It adds another dimension to our gardens. Our gardens are sensory smorgasbords, attracting animals and humans alike, a feast for the eyes, an olfactory overindulgence, tantalizing to the touch, tempting our taste buds, and enchanting to our ears. A garden, simple or complex will stimulate the senses in varying degrees, but the water garden can reign over all as a place only certain plants and animals can exist in a place of their own. Over the next few weeks I will focus on demystifying how to build and maintain a pond or water garden.
Lets start from the beginning-cost.
The in ground pools can be made by installing a preformed rigid fiberglass liner, or a liner of PVC, or a flexible rubber liner. In my opinion this is the one place you should NOT skimp on money. The PVC liners, while inexpensive are only 20 mil thick, and have guarantees of five to ten years. Preformed rigid liners while simple in appearance must be installed correctly, with drainage out of the excavation hole, and a sandy bed to sit into, or they may just float right out of the ground. For the greatest design options, the flexible liners are the best over-all.