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For city inhabitants, yard space is hard to come by. With apartment houses constructed right on the streets and a tiny amount of communal land in the back, there’s no way to grow a garden or cultivate a lot of flowers. You can, however, think on a much smaller scale. If you have a balcony or a deck, or even a fire escape, you can create a water garden in containers which will give you the aura of an in-ground water feature. You’ll be able to hear the water running and relax while watching tiny fish swimming, grow water plants, and take advantage of the serenity that only a water garden can give you. Water garden containers give you the basis for building a watery environment in very limited space.

Finding water garden containers isn’t as hard as deciding exactly what you want. A recommended capacity for a container is 15-25 gallons, and any kind of container in that size range will be okay. You will also have to have containers to plant your water plants in, because plants should be grown in separate pots and then inserted into the water-filled container. It’s preferable to select a container with a darker interior, because the dark color will give your pond the look of depth. Dark interiors are also more practical in that they won’t attract algae and yet they’ll hide the presence of any algae that starts to grow.

Your water garden optimumly will be located where it will get at minimum six hours of sun every day. Many water plants don’t thrive and flower well without at least that much sunlight, but some bog plants will be okay with less sun. The plants you choose for your garden need to be varied for the prettiest effect. Choose some floating, a few that grow under water, and emergent species when selecting the plants you want to include in your water garden. Plants offer the function of shading the water which, once again, discourages the growth of algae. When you start a new water garden, however, you can expect your water to get murky after a couple of weeks. Just stick it out, though, and the plants and fish will slowly but surely begin controlling the algae population, and the water will clear up.

In addition to fish, you need to stick a few snails in your water garden containers. Snails are critical in eating algae, fish waste matter, and decaying organic materials. Really small fish, such as guppies, are recommended for containers that are 20 gallons or smaller; larger than that you can add a couple of goldfish. Guppies and similar fish are ideal choices, because they resist changes in temperature well, and they gobble up those pesky mosquitoes.