Artificial Reservoir Design

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

How decorative wet gardens are created

A pool, a pond, a stream and just water are a welcome place in any garden area. Natural stones, rollers from ground cover plants - an expensive and elegant frame for the sides of reservoirs. The pool can be the only and main object of the garden, the center of a large composition.

Plants such as irises, bergenia, nymphs, and moisture-loving roses play an invaluable role in decorating wet areas and corners. A water mirror always organically fits into the surrounding nature, creates harmony and beauty, revives the garden. In this article, we will consider the design of only natural reservoirs.

The area around the natural reservoir is almost always wet and swampy. Typical moisture-loving, near-water plants are planted here. If you install a bench among them, a gazebo entwined with climbing plants, you can create a magnificent corner for relaxation. In the case when the reservoir is located at the edge of the site, the atmosphere of the garden will revive the fence in the form of excellent arches, braided by climbing clematis, honeysuckle, hops, wild grapes, sweet peas, morning glory, nasturtium, echinocystis or other plants.

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To decorate this humid corner, you can plant long-flowering perennials, ornamental shrubs - buldenezh, hydrangea, spirea, and wild rose. Instead of arches, there can be a picket fence, which gives the garden a rustic charm. Completeness of the design is given by the bushes of viburnum, chubushnik, maple, privet, bladderwort, and cinquefoil planted next to the fence.

The area around the reservoir can be divided into three zones according to the degree of humidity.

- Actually a reservoir of various depths, shallow water zone, depth 10-40 cm, waterlogged area near the water.

- Wet area at some distance from water.

- Dry shore with normal garden soil for woody and herbaceous perennials.

It is necessary to provide for the location and direction of the footpath, convenient for approaching the reservoir and for caring for plants.

This amazing place requires intelligent selection of plants that thrive in humid conditions.

If the reservoir is not flowing, then aquatic plants in pots and baskets are usually grown in it. But about this - in a special article.

Swamp roses (Rosa Palustris) feel great on the shore of the reservoir, in moist soil, they form excellent arches. The pool mirror reflects the beautiful forms of plants, gently falling branches and flowers. Marsh roses bloom for six weeks, exuding a fragrant aroma. Nearby, yellow or intensely orange cannes flowers with large leaves are good.

If there is a stream on the site where water flows among the stones, we observe streams of water, reflections of a waterfall. The assortment of plants in the coastal zone, where the thickness of the water layer can be up to 5 cm, includes marsh iris, moneta loosestrife, marigold, swimsuit, ostrich and others. Aruncus, Buzulnik, Rogersia, rhubarb, primroses, ferns are planted further from the coast. Hostas of different color of leaves are wonderful in a humid place.

The selection of plants with different flowering periods will provide a bright color of the flower garden. The most interesting are the plants that are reflected in the mirror of the reservoir: marsh calla, meadowsweet, filipendula, daylily (hemerocalis), tame gravilat, cyanosis (polymonium), meadow geranium. Blooming astilbe, loosestrife, Siberian irises, Rogers, reflected in the water, are a beautiful sight.

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Planting plants in the next zone, in principle, completes the design of the basin zone.

Every spring, bright golden-yellow flowers of the marigold appear, followed by primroses - primroses, arizema. Every summer Siberian and marsh irises, marsh calla lilies next to Rogersia, ferns and rhubarb create a unique and wonderful view.

Plants in damp areas of the garden require a lot of maintenance. During the growing season, it is necessary to monitor the constant soil moisture. In dry times, when the soil dries up, the plants need to be watered abundantly.

Carefully thought-out composition and selection of plants around the reservoir will ensure their flowering from early spring to late autumn.

I suggest one of the design options for the wet shores of the reservoir (see diagram). All flowers are suitable for planting in damp places.

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1. Marsh irises. Roy Davidson variety. They have powerful roots and rhizomes. Slightly branched stems 70-80 cm in height bear 12-15 flowers. The lower petals are golden yellow with a large orange spot. The color of the leaves varies from dull green to intensely gray. The plant is purely coastal, but withstands prolonged flooding. The foliage of marsh irises is not damaged by thrips. Pre-winter shelter required. They have been growing without transplantation and special care for decades. Shade tolerant.

2. Monet loam - meadow tea. A groundcover that densely covers the ground in damp places, drowning out weeds. In summer, it blooms with yellow flowers.

3. Rogersia is a spring ephemeroid. It has large dissected leaves and delicate panicles of tiny flowers. Loves soil rich in organic material. In autumn it is cut close to the ground.

4. Gravilat (Geum) - up to 60 cm high with red crimson or orange flowers. Bloom in May-June.

5. Marsh roses. Fragrant dark pink double shining flowers. Provides longer flowering times than most other types of roses. Flowers up to 5 cm in diameter acquire an orange-red color by the end of summer and persist until late autumn. Leaves are medium to dark green in summer, changing to dark red in autumn. Branched, long and graceful branches form powerful shrubs. Used for mass plantings. They grow in partial shade. The soil must be enriched with organic material. It adapts both in wet, swampy conditions and in dry places. To preserve the lush bush, old branches should be removed. Grows easily. In late autumn or early spring, the bush should be cut close to the ground.

6. Hosts are low, such as Golden Tiara or Sun Pover. The first grade has medium-sized olive leaves with a yellow border. In the second, the leaves are elongated, lanceolate in the early spring, at first green, then turn yellow and finally become egg-yellow.

7. Cannes. Perennial large-flowered plants. Tuberous rhizomes to be dug up annually and stored in a basement at low temperatures. The leaves are large, green or striped - up to 60 cm long and up to 35 wide. The flowers are large, asymmetrical, collected in paniculate inflorescences of red, yellow or salmon-orange color.

8. Bathers - rhizome perennials up to 1 m high. Leaves are palmate-split or palmate-lobed. The flowers are large and consist of five to twenty petal sepals, yellow or orange. Requires a semi-shaded area with sufficiently moist, fertilized soils.

9. Kaluzhnitsa (Kalta) with shiny golden yellow simple or double flowers. Blooms in May.

10. Moisture-loving ferns. Unpretentious. The leafy leaves are graceful, of various shapes and sizes.

11. Aruncus is a luxurious perennial for the background of the pool shores. It blooms in large fluffy inflorescences up to 60 cm long. The inflorescences consist of many tiny white or cream flowers. Before winter, it should be cut at a distance of 5-10 cm from the ground.

The range of moisture-loving plants is wide enough. Everyone can choose them for himself according to his taste and possibilities. The best success will be if released plant varieties are used. They take root easier, grow faster and more elegantly.