How Do You Make A Water Garden In A Tub?
Make a water garden tub for your deck or patio to create a miniature pond ecosystem. Water features have a cool and calming effect in any landscape environment, and the wide variety of water loving plants available lets the home gardener convert any container into an interesting and colorful tableau. Select the tub or other container for your water garden first. The size of the container determines how many and what kind of plants your water garden will support. A container as small as 1 gallon can hold a single water plant, but larger containers, up to 25 gallons or so, give you the opportunity to make interesting plant groupings. Ironically, the larger the container, the less maintenance it requires. Water evaporation affects small containers more quickly, and single plants require more individual attention than larger groupings. Prepare the tub for your garden. If the container you select is not water tight, line the inside with a heavy plastic lining, such as a section of pond line
