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Free Expert Pond & Landscaping Solutions, Designs & Ideas By Peter J May,
The Perfect Pond Detective
Every family garden should include a fish or water lily pond. Every single
garden pond should be a joy to behold, full of life and never-ending wonder &
surprise. Treasure your environment and investment. Your dreams come true ....
Water Gardening in Practical Terms ... How To Get Started and Do It Right First
Time
Were you scared off by the complexities of designing and then costing and
then actually doing the work of building that water feature in your garden in
order to increase the value of your property or just get more pleasure out of
it?
Did this prevent you creating that dream pond your family and yourself always
wanted?
Is it possible to use a liner to create stream or waterfall?
read Peter's fun (but deadly serious) article on how to meet and resolve water
gardening landscaping challenges by clicking the link To create a successful
well landscaped pleasing water garden design is to provide a place in your
garden in which all the flora and fauna are interdependent.
Plants may get out of hand; there may be epidemics of algae or parasites or even
huge populations of toads or frog tadpoles.
However if your pond is constructed employing the correct basic principles and
put together with the right ingredients and care, these events will not be
problems, rather just the seesaw effect of nature's 'natural' balance adjusting
itself with time.
As you read below take note that there are many links (underlined text) to all
sorts of valuable information about ponds, water features, fountains and fish
pond care in general.
If you prefer to do the water garden landscaping job yourself do then yourself a
big favour and consider buying my book ..
The first thoughts that you must seriously consider for the benefit of the water
garden and yourself are in regards to siting the pond itself.
The pond should be in full sun. Nearly all aquatic plants associated with water
gardens need some direct sunlight to flower especially water lilies.
Your dream of those beautiful water lily plants will come to nothing if you
starve them of sun Ensure your pond or water garden feature (it could be a
simple fountain or stream or waterfall disappearing below ground) is away from
trees (especially deciduous trees that lose their leaves in Autumn) or
prevailing winds that may carry poisonous leaves into the pond.
If there are to be waterfalls, streamd or fountains in the garden landscape,
consider the distance to 'plumb' in electricity, since this can be a major
expense.
Partly for the reason above, but also because we spend so much of the year
looking at our gardens from inside our houses, it is advisable to have a view of
the water garden, the pond or other water feature or at least part of it from
the house.
Check for bedrock, pipe-work, electricity or septic tanks where you have chosen
to have your water garden.
Planing the water garden, pond, fountain or water feature Plan every single sod
of earth you dig and cost every trowel of cement you mix.
Go through the job from start to finish in your mind working out quantities and
costs of materials that will be used to complete the landscaped water feature.
Try to draw a plan of the water garden idea or design in relation to the rest of
the garden.
To further help with the choice of materials, you wll find a list of facts and
tips related to individual items or features Pond Bio Filters,Lights and
Electrics If you are including a biological filtration unit or pond lights and
UV lights (essential for algae control in many fish ponds), make allowances for
them at the initial planning stage.
A biological filter will need a submersible pond pump that will capable of
pumping half the volume of the pond through the filter every hour.
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landscaping electricity liner plants materials fountain waterfall design filter
care click to read the full article which is on the home page of this
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