Refreshing Water Feature Ideas for Your Landscape

Looking for water feature ideas and ways to add water to your garden? Here we share 10 ideas and tips for maintaining water features in the garden.

Bring water into your garden and with it a little magic. Wildlife – from pond striders and dragonflies to newts and frogs – will soon appear out of nowhere, and bird life will proliferate. You might even wake up to find a couple of ducks roaming by.

Since water is one of the basic elements of life, it seems to somehow complete a garden, no matter how big or small. A calm pool can instill a sense of calm, especially when there’s an open expanse of water reflecting part of the sky, while the gentle gurgle or murmur of a flowing fountain can add a soothing distraction from unwanted noise elsewhere.