Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Dragonflies, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
I know this is not the water garden forum, but if you love flowers and dragonflies, then a water garden is great to try. This is my first year ever attempting a water garden and I had amazing success with it with very little effort.

This is a photo of my little pond. (I actually have 2 of them.) It is 38" wide by 14" high. I bought it at Home Depot for $29.95. They are both sitting above ground. I use sandbox sand instead of soil in the bottom and fertilize it every 4-6 weeks in the warmer months. I have 4 tropical waterlilies in it currently. The Josephine waterlily blooms white flowers constantly. One of the four is a nightblooming waterlily called Red Flare. And the other 2 waterlilies are Lindsay Woods (purple flowers). I usually have redroot and a Dwarf Sweet Flag in the pond also for vertical effect. But i moved them to the other pond recently to add some coverage for 4 different "Hardy" waterlilies I also got a Home Depot for about $7.00 a piece. They were baby plants with no leaves and are now growing lily pads and rooting very nicely.