water gardens

Ponds with plants

Water gardens are garden features incorporating pools, ponds, or other bodies of water, typically planted with aquatic species like water lilies and lotus.

The term also refers to gardens that are watered by flooding or irrigation channels rather than rainfall: The rice terraces function as elaborate water gardens.

To water garden is to cultivate such a space.

Opposites
moisture/water presence

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Low-irrigation garden design

desert gardens · rock gardens · succulent gardens · cactus gardens · Mediterranean gardens

garden design philosophy

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Deliberately structured ornamental landscapes

zen gardens

Family

water, gardens

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G