Create A Moving & Flowing Water Garden In Your Yard For many, the sound of splashing moving and flowing water from either a fountain feature or a cascade or waterfall, thrills the senses. While still, reflective pools have a soothing effect. The element of moving water adds excitement, and even the tiniest trickle of water…
How To Build Natural Water Gardens Where water occurs naturally in the garden, very little maintenance is necessary except tidying up and weeding the area. Natural Water Gardens are usually easy to maintain. If indigenous moisture-loving plants are already present, the water will attract all types of wildlife without any effort on your part. In…
Build a DIY Koi Pond Roughly formed with concrete, this DIY koi pond was specially designed to accommodate and display a small quantity of koi. It is 500 mm (1 ft 8 in) deep, the minimum required for these ornamental fish, and a biological filter has been fitted. This feature incorporates attractive man-made rocks around…
How to Install a Preformed Pond Here I show you how to install a preformed pond in 11 easy steps just to prove that this is an easy project. I installed this in one day, easy! This type of preformed pond is undoubtedly the simplest and most foolproof of all, as the “precast” or preformed…
Informal Ponds & Pools Informal ponds & pools in gardens are typified by gentle curves and flowerbeds of irregular form; and the water gardens which accompany them may have the same kind of design. Straight lines and geometric shapes are out, symmetry is forgotten and rigid planting is frowned upon. Unless the architectural genre of…
Formal Ponds and Pools The two basic garden types are defined as formal ponds and informal ponds. Formal ponds and pools and informal ponds and pools are classified in the same way. There is a tendency to refer to the formal version as a pool and the informal as a pond, which is not strictly…