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If you love water plants, consider creating a water garden in your backyard or the place you think suitable beside your home. Water Plants can transform the look of your garden substantially but they require additional feature in your in your gardening site for proper growth and propagation. You will also have to take extra care for the maintenance of your water garden.
To grow various types of water plants, first you need to build a pool or a garden pond that can aesthetically complement the design of your residential area. After deciding upon the place for the garden pond along with its size and dimensions, you are required to dig out and make hole. Then you can build a pool using concrete, plastic liner or prefabricated fiberglass. Plastic liner is the cheapest way to build a pool but it is the least durable.
Now you can grow your selected water plants to enjoy the beauty of your water garden. It is better to use water plants that are kept in some sorts of containers, which may be baskets, plastic tubs and clay pots. For the best results, the container should be filled with damp garden soil and the plantation should be done at the time of growing season.
There is a wide range of water or pond plants to choose from, all of which can be categorized into the groups of floaters, true aquatics and marginals. While floaters include plants like water hyacinth, water lettuce or duckweed, the features of waterlilies bring them under the category of true aquatics. Marginals grow in wet soil at the margin of the pond and can include plants like water iris, calla lilies, taro and water canna.
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An ideal garden store keeps a good stock of water plants for sale. You can also get them online where you will find useful information on their maintenance and care as well.
You can also grow water plants in containers, which can be anything with an ideal size of 12-24 inches wide by 12-16 inches deep. You can use ceramic or plastic containers as well as liners in wooden barrels for the purpose. Your container water garden will look nice with spiky, erect plant in combination with a broad-leaf plant. The most common container water plants include sweet flag, yellow flag iris, giant arrowhead, calla lily, water mint and parrot feather.
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