The Pleasure of Garden Pond

Learn everything you want to know from design, installation and maintenance of a garden pond.

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Garden Pond and Its Best Winter Care

A garden pond is indeed a beautiful ornament for your backyard and exterior. However, in order to maintain its health and beauty, you have to understand about the proper care in different season. Mostly, garden pond faces very hard time during winter. Therefore, giving the best care and its inhabitants properly during winter months will help you to maintain the lasting beauty of your pond.

The change of the temperature influences a lot of things in the way you take care of your pond. The most influenced thing is in the way you feed your fish. Continue Reading…

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Garden Pond Pumps – The Most Important Component

garden pond pumpsHaving a water feature in your yard is so relaxing and it’s a lot of fun to watch your fish move around or, if you only have plants, to tend to your water vegetation. Make sure before you design your setup that you look at garden pond pumps to see which one will work best for your needs.

This is a very important part of the pond, in fact, it is the heart of it. The purpose behind pumps are twofold: first they circulate the water throughout the entire system and aerate the water with much needed oxygen for both plants and animals. The second reason is not as necessary, but is an added bonus and that is the tranquil sound they make that is so soothing to listen to. Some people will purchase a specific pump just because of the sound that it produces, with the main purpose being incidental.

There are actually four different types of pumps that you can buy, each one designed with it’s own specific purpose:

External Drive Pumps are designed for large water flows, usually associated with features such as waterfalls, therefore, they must be installed outside of the water in order to operate. Continue Reading…

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Build Your Own Garden Pond

Although you could pay a professional to build your garden pond for you, many people decide to create it by themselves.  If you are considering doing it yourself you will be glad to know that it isn’t as difficult a task as you might expect.  The main thing is to do a bit of research on the fundamentals of how to go about it.  Get a few good books or search the web for step-by-step instructions and advice.  To get you started, here is a brief overview of the basics to creating that perfect pond for your garden.

Where to place your pond

First off, you will need to work out which is the best place in your garden to begin digging the hole that will be the basis of your pond.  The size of the Continue Reading…

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