Photos: Water Garden

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My second garden craft today was making a mini-water garden. (See the House Yard and the Worm Bin.)


Last year I used this trough to make a mini-water garden on the old picnic table. The trough never did a good job of raising flowers because it has no holes in the bottom. So I repurposed it. I put it on the old picnic table first because tree frogs like to hang out there, but last year I never saw any, so this year I'm moving it.




I placed the trough at the west end of the log garden.




I packed small logs around it so that little critters can reach the trough.




Looking down into the trough, you can see that I placed a couple of brick pieces and a branch inside for habitat. These also help critters get in and out of the water, and the branch end provides a perch for insects such as dragonflies.




I poured some water into the trough. The rest should fill up with rainwater, as there are chances of rain for the next week or so.




Here is a wider view of the trough at the end of the log garden. It will fit in better once plants have grown around it.