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A good water gardening magazine can provide a lot of useful information, as well as hours of enjoyable reading for the water gardener, whether he or she is a beginner or a water gardener of long experience. The water gardening magazine is written by water gardeners for the benefit of other water gardeners. It is a place where water gardeners from all over the world come together to share ideas and experiences.

The water gardening magazine will have all the news of the latest developments in this special form of horticulture. It will tell readers about plants, ponds, containers and accessories. If someone has developed a new way to fight algae, or has come up with a clever new way to keep predatory birds like herons from feeding on your fish, the news will be in the water gardening magazine. If there is new information on how to protect your plants from disease, that, too, will be in the water gardening magazine.

More than that, the water gardening magazine will be chock full of photographs of water gardens from all over the world. The reader can see how fellow water gardeners combine plants, water, stone or brickwork, accessories and background landscaping to create water gardens that not only please their owners, but also win prizes.

Do you want information on how to build a water garden? Look in a water gardening magazine. You’re not sure if you should excavate for a pond or develop a container water garden? The water gardening magazine can help you to decide what is best for you. Have you been having a problem with pests or plant disease? The magazine may well have the solution, spelled out in black and white in easy to follow steps.

Do you have a good idea for building a cascade in a water garden? Why not write about it and send it as a letter to the editor of your favourite water gardening magazine? Your fellow water gardeners would probably love to read about it. Perhaps, if you can do a good enough job writing the article, and you provide some good photographs, the magazine’s editor might even want to publish your story as an article. Or maybe, if writing isn’t your strong point, you’d just like to submit a photograph of that remarkable, original cascade you have in your back yard. Imagine sharing your creation through a picture in a magazine!

If you cannot find a water gardening magazine at your local newsstand, just ask your water gardening supply dealer. He or she will either have one in stock, or will be able to tell you how to get one. You’ll be glad to add it to your reading list.

Is there any element in nature that can be as simultaneously soothing and dramatic as water? Most people love to hear the roar of a waterfall, the laughter of water tumbling over rocks or splashing in a fountain, and the murmuring noise of a small stream. They love to see the sparkle of sunlight on falling water as it makes each droplet a tiny prism, the rippling effect of the wind across the surface of a pool, and the reflections cast by still water when there is hardly a breeze.

For these and many other reasons, water gardening is one of the most challenging and rewarding forms of horticulture. And even though as far as modern horticulture is concerned water gardening is a relatively new art, the practice does in fact go far back in history. The ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, as well as the rulers of Arabia and China all used water gardening to beautify their homes, palaces, places of worship and important public areas. They cultivated exotic plants and sometimes stocked their pools with beautifully coloured fish.

But in those long gone days only the very rich could enjoy water gardens. Slaves usually did the actual work of water gardening, which frequently involved hauling great quantities of water. There wasn’t always a natural spring to keep the fountain gushing in a sultan’s cool, shady courtyard.

Thanks to twenty-first century technology, however, a far greater number of people can share the pleasures of water gardening. Most people, of course, cannot replicate the grand water gardens of a Caesar or a Chinese emperor, but they can have a garden on a less ostentatious scale that is just as beautiful and provides an equal measure of joy.

Your water garden can take on many different forms. You can build it around or adjacent to a naturally occurring wet area on your property, such as a spring, brook or marsh. Or you can use an artificially constructed pool or fountain as the focal point of your water garden. You can adorn your water garden from a vast array of flowers, shrubs and trees. You can also have an aesthetically pleasing water garden that has no plants at all. You can add fish to your pool if you desire. Or you can attract birds, butterflies and other living things to your water garden by the selection of certain species of flora or the placing of feeders. You can decorate your water garden with statuary, or enhance it with stonework. Whatever your choices, water gardening will provide you with the means to be at your creative best, and a place of tranquil beauty for you to enjoy.