To design a water feature like a garden water pond in your own backyard is the ever growing interest in all over the world.

If you are considering of adding a water feature to your garden, there are a few things that you need to know. These guidelines are as follow:

1. The design and location of the pond should have a slope with steps or bog areas for water planting from the highest to the lowest area. This design is not only suitable for planting some water plants but also by having different habitat according to the landscape.

2. Five tips for deciding the location of the pond
1. The pond location receives enough sunlight.
2. Prevent low land to avoid excess runoff water from high lands.
3. Don't build the pond underneath a tree.
4. Determine the height of the land.
5. Ensure the is adequate clean water available and power outlets are available outdoors.

3. Flexible pond liner is a good choice for the pond foundation. It is relatively inexpensive (compare to shell pre-formed pond kit) and provides unlimited creative opportunities for you to shape your pond and determine the pond size.This frees you from the constraint of a pre-formed shell pond kit.

4. Choose a variety of sub-merged plants or oxygenators, floating plants and perennial or marginal plants, The floating plants can cover the water and absorb the nutrients in the water. Examples of the floating plants are Lily, Lotus, Water Lettuce and Butterfly Fern. Sub-merged plants provide shelter to the water creatures. Add marginal plants or perennial plants to define pond side seating area or to mask the edging of the pond.

5. Fish can be added as a decorative element in the garden pond besides eating on mosquitoes larva. Waste from fish is a source of food to the water plants. But you need to control the quantity of the fish in the pond. More fish means more food to encourage algae. The best allocation of fish is one fish for every 3 square feet of pond surface. If you want to rear Koi fish, ensure that you install a good filtration system.

6. Let the pond blend in the natural environment allowing water insects, tad pole, birds, etc. to complete the ecological system.

7. It's not easy to ensure that the quality of the pond is always stable. You should be sensitive to the changes in the ecological system of the pond.. Ensure that there is enough water plants.