If you have any bit of a green thumb at all, sooner or later you will learn some very valuable lessons in the landscape garden. My husband and I learned these lessons one summer when we decided to add a water feature to an existing garden area.
Landscape garden lesson number one - while massive oak trees may be a beautiful covering over a water garden, they can make it difficult to dig proper sized hole for the water pond. When putting in the water feature, my husband dug and dug for what seemed like hours to make a hole big enough for the pond.
To make matters worse, just as he neared the end of the digging, he encountered a huge root from one of the massive oak trees. Determined he wasn't going to dig another hole, he sawed at the root until he got enough of it cut away that the pond would fit in the hole flush with the ground.
Landscape garden lesson number two - always line your pond hole with sand to allow for proper leveling of the water pond. We learned this after we placed the pond in the hole and then backfilled around it. After we finished and stepped back to admire our work we began to notice something a little strange, the pond had settled to one side and was obviously crooked. We later found this wouldn't have happened if we had lined the whole properly.
Landscape garden lesson number three - this one showed up during a sudden summer storm. We had chosen a tall fountain for the pond and hadn't anchored it very well, so the wind blew it over. Luckily we didn't have any fish in our pond yet because the displaced fountain pumped all of the water out of the pond onto the ground. Oh well, it gave us a chance to level up the pond.
Landscape garden lesson number four - if you add any dirt to your garden, be careful where you get it from, it may contain unwanted plants. We learned this lesson a few weeks after we finished our water feature. As a finishing touch, we had decided to add a waterfall to our water garden. We didn't have quite enough dirt to build up the waterfall high enough, so we borrowed a little dirt from a freshly plowed pea field.
We mulched the area and added walkway lights and stepping stones around the pond with a comfortable bench nearby. During the course of that first summer, I started noticing some strange plants coming up around the water garden. I'd never seen them before, so I called my husband to identify them. They were peas! Apparently the dirt we'd taken from the edge of the field had already been sown with seed, and now we had peas growing around our water garden.
These are just a few of the lessons we learned during our first attempt at a landscape garden. Hopefully by sharing a few of our goofs, you can avoid making the same mistakes when you decide to create a landscape garden of your own.
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