Creating your place of escape wtih a tranquil waterfall & garden

  In the fast-paced world we live in today, people are often highly affected by the chaos, stress, and busyness surrounding them. Pressures from work, family and friends constantly loom over our heads, crying for our attention, time, and energy. Sometimes we wonder when we’ll ever get a break, or a time to re-energize. When you come home from a day on the job, you want to come to a place where you can take a deep breath and genuinely relax.

  Incorporating a waterfall into your garden adds a dynamic touch to the ambience of your backyard. The soothing sounds, fresh scent, and beautiful scenery of an artificial waterfall bring relaxation and pleasure to yourself and your loved ones. You can creatively bring the places you love (the park, the lake, your favorite vacation spot, etc.) to your own home. Having something you love in your backyard will help you enjoy your space more and make you more inclined to entertain guests at your home.

  Choosing a design for your waterfall is completely versatile, and you can design it according to your own personal taste. This is all about you! You can build a gently sloping waterfall, or a more intense drop off with a steep slope. It’s a good idea to take into consideration the surroundings of your waterfall. If everything around the pond and waterfall is relatively flat, you want to keep your falls slightly lower and gently sloping so the entire landscape ties together evenly and naturally. If you have a hilly backyard with a variety of sizes of trees and shrubbery, adding a taller waterfall will not look out of place, but instead will add to the complex landscape.

  There are a couple of ways you can build your waterfall. First of all, if you have a natural hill in your backyard you can make excellent use of it by using it as the slope for your waterfall. Or, you can use the excess dirt that you excavated from the pond and use that to build up your waterfall. Either way is simply done and has great results. If you are using a natural hill or slope in the yard you will need to build your head waters and have the pump directly pump into this smaller pool and then flow down from there. If you are building up from flat ground you can use some bio filter models as the head pools and then spill from there to the head of the waterfall or stream.

  If you want to experiment with your final design, you can easily do so by shifting rocks and adding plants and animals. You can also play with the sound of your waterfall by rearranging rocks, and by adding larger rocks or smaller stones to the falls. You will be amazed at how much the sound is altered simply by adding different kinds and sizes of rocks.

  The time and energy you put into building your waterfall will be miniscule compared to the hours you will be able to spend relaxing and enjoying your own backyard.
Source www.all-about-water-gardens.com , written by Garth Epp.