Own Your Own Retreat Center with Your Backyard Garden Pond

Mission Springs, LLC located in Elk River, Minnesota has launched a new website devoted to providing all that you need to create and build your own backyard garden retreat center. Henry Griner, owner of Mission Springs, spent several days researching the topic of water gardens and garden ponds in January of this year while he was making plans to upgrade his own garden pond in the spring.

“I found such great information and links to items that I wanted to purchase that I thought, other people may be interested in them also, so I started putting a new website together on the topic,” said Henry. It turns out that many other people are interested in the creating water gardens or garden ponds along with looking for information on flower gardening in general. The website, www.greatgardenponds.com, has seem steady growth in traffic to the site since the first week of January 2006 when it was started.

Our American culture is becoming so full of busyness and pressure that we need to find ways to relax and refresh ourselves on a daily basis. The Japanese developed the concept for and first plans for water gardens over 2000 years ago. Today, many Americans and people from other cultures too are finding that water gardens or garden ponds in the midst of their flower gardens can become a place of peace and solitude.

Often you hear friends and family talk about how they are making plans to getaway for a weekend so they can relax. Later, they may relate to you all the pressure they felt not only in planning their getaway time but the trouble they had trying to relax while they were away.

Rest and relaxation need to become a part of our daily and weekly life experiences and not just be reserved for those few days each year when we use our vacation time. Creating a water garden or garden pond in our own yard can help to bring about a new way of living and enjoying nature while relieving the stress of the day. When your own garden creation is at a point of completion, you can walk among the flowers, listen to the sound of the water if you have a fountain or waterfall or just set quietly and meditate on the beauty and peace you can find there.

If you want to learn how to create your own Backyard, Great Garden Pond Retreat, visit www.greatgardenponds.com for all the resources you will need to get started.

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