Friends of the Library Garden Tour - Site #6 Aqualine Aquatic Plants and Water Features

tower garden of vegetables

Lunch break!  Donated by Sobey's, hot dogs and pop were available for a toonie at Aqualine. If you had six stamps on your garden pass, (you get one at each garden you visit as you enter) you received a free water hyacinth as well (we did!). Aqualine Aquatic Plants and Water Features is located out in the countryside, just as site #5 was.  This is a lovely site for a lunch break as you may sit on any of the benches located overlooking ponds and water features. It had rained a bit earlier so the seating was wet but it was just as nice to stand pondside and enjoy a yummy hotdog with the library's secret sauce!  A draw for a gardening books or a bonsai was here as well.  I wonder if I'll win? 

Aqualine Aquatic Plants and Water Features sells tropical and hardy water lilies and marginal aquatic plants.  Feature gardens show you how you can incorporate water into your garden.

Any ideas what this plant is?  The flowers are a delicate pink.

Above, future expansion of the main water feature.

Prepare to Be Wowed!! Aqualine - another stop on the Strathcona County Garden Tour

If you love water gardens like I do, then this tour will be like chocolate for a sweets lover.  (I am both, just ask my husband!)  A few years ago my son put in a pond with a small waterfall and we loved it!  We spent a lot of time in the back yard, sitting around the fire pit which is conveniently located close to the pond.  We had fish at one time but overwintering them indoors became a bit of a chore.  We also had water lilies...again overwintering required taking a lot of room in the fridge because a pond has to be at least 3 feet deep here for a water lily and/or fish to survive our winters.  We had lovely little reeds, a unicorn rush, water irises, and a few others.  We tried water lettuce but it doesn't get enough shade so it scorches sadly.  The pond was our favourite feature and likely a huge selling feature when we sold the house last summer.  (I miss it so much but with all the kids moving out it didn't make sense to keep such a big house.)

This visit to Aqualine near Sherwood Park, Alberta was like a Caramilk bar for me....a large one!  I got a good water fix!!  I hope you enjoy it too.  There are fountains, water lilies, ponds, and waterfalls galore here!  My son Matt would find it difficult to leave, had he been able to join us.

Do you remember this guy?

Thank you for joining me and getting a little wet.

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