Making Your Own Apartment Pond
Do you love the idea of a pond, but don't have an
actual yard to place one in? No fear — you can cultivate a mini watery paradise
on your balcony or terrace with very little effort by creating a container
water garden. By selecting a variety of plants and containers, you can create a
customized water garden in any outdoor space that receives six hours of
sunlight every day (a little bit less if you are using bog plants).
Small-container water gardens are actually a
collection of submerged potted plants, which makes them easy to set up and to
rearrange at will. You can use just about any container to start your water
garden, but pots with dark interiors give an impression of greater depth,
discourage algae growth, and make algae less obvious when it does grow. Best of
all, most water plants are tough so the garden is low maintenance, and even
those of us with a black thumb have a chance because they are generally hard to
kill.
Once you have chosen your display container, use
bricks or overturned containers submerged below the surface of the water to
allow you to vary the height of your plants to create a lovely landscape. Your
local nursery can help with selecting water plants- consider varying tall
grasses with cascading plants for interest, and definitely select a couple of
water flowers for colour. Top up the water in your container every couple of
days depending on the rate of evaporation- if you are using city tap water, let
it sit first for 48 hours to allow the chlorine to evaporate, or pick up
special tablets at the nursery to remove the chlorine. You can plant Lotus or Water lily to enhance the look of your pond.
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