I enclose the water with plants to bring color into the water, I don’t want it to feel like a separate contained experience, but an integrated aspect of the garden. Sometimes this is more literal, when, for example, I plant lotus flowers in ponds, slimming the line between the water and the garden. Water is an elegant element of division because it only suggests itself as a boundary, particularly in shallow reflecting pools. I integrate those into the gardens as much as I can, and design pools that are water features before recreational spaces. The movement a pool of water brings to the landscaping is similar to the flow I build into my meadows, and this is something I think carefully about when I’m introducing a pool into my design.