Learn how to make the most of your garden's water features by growing plants that live in the water itself. Gord Nickel and Aaron Wing take you on a tour of a Japanese-style water garden and show you how to create a rich, lush garden.

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Male 1: About a month is a lapse and the pond is finally done. You must be very proud of all the work you have done here? Aaron: Yes, my partners and I are please at the way it is turn out here. Male 1: It is really as magnificent and you know the first thing I notices is has become down the stairs, you have use, I guess sort of a rock walk way through the water. Almost the stones sort of bridge in a sense, what made you go to this rather than a foliage structure, where the water was not falling through? Aaron: Yes, I think the stones are out of bit Japanese flair to the project Shibu sides (Laughing) Japanese name so, that is a little bit style and little interested to the water feature. Male 1: Is it really it now, you got a sort of a bond guard and I guess through out here and it got some plant things, is this idea that the plant will start grows through these rocks? Aaron: Yes, we plants our water plants directly in the gravel so it is just let them spread. It creates a lot less maintenance than having your water plants in pots as you have to take them out and repot them. Male 1: Right. By imagine you know with then you are trying to get a balance pond, it is also a good thing to have lots of green plants along the edges of the pond? Aaron: Yes, the water plants help to pull the nutrient out of the water. As you know, algae grows from nutrients and sunlight so, the plants help to take that out of there. Male 1; They take away their nutrient and you get the nice water and shin. And imagine one of these you going to flower are they? Aaron: Yes, pretty much all of them are marginals flower. Some are indiscriminant and some more prominent like the marsh merry gold and, Male 1: Yes, it is really one event. Aaron: And the water lilies have an awesome blossom. Male 1; Yes, and then you just coming and coming and I see you got something water hose on over there as well. Aaron: Yes. Male 1: Now the other thing I noticed when we are standing here is a magnificent water fall. And, it is better bit windy day here today but, it is really quite loud. Did you guys design it that way? Aaron: Yes. The way we place the rocks, you can create different pitches in the sound of water. If you want that low rumbling, you place cover rocks and create a bit of a hollow underneath the water fall rock. And then that, as it hits the water, so it creates that echo chamber on that. Male 1: Ah, okay. And I notice you that quite a few them down end they give you I guess more amplitude. It is really quite amazing it the way the unders looks very natural.