Building a Wheel Chair Friendly Pond: A Case Study
Pam Bickley didn’t set out to have an unofficial second career as a water garden designer. In her own words, “It just sort of happened” – [...]
Making a DIY Bubble Fountain: A Case Study
“When the kids were little, we wanted the sound of running water in the garden, but neither of us really felt comfortable with the idea of [...]
Five Great Gadgets for Your Pond
There’s certainly no shortage of ingeniously effective gadgets available to help you get the most out of your pond – whether you’re looking for something just [...]
Are You a Water Plant Expert?
Good planting can make or break a pond, so if you know your plants, you should always be assured of a really great looking water garden. [...]
Pond Water Lillies – Choosing the Right Water Lily for Your Pond
There’s nothing quite like a water lily but adding one of these striking and instantly recognisable aquatic plants to a pond is not without its [...]
Plants for the Bog Garden
A well constructed bog garden adds a lot to the pond, helping to make it appear as a natural feature of the landscape by blurring the [...]
Planting Your Pond for Maximum Impact
Planting is the key to the whole look and feel of any garden pond. The lush foliage and interestingly shaped leaves of pond plants clothe the [...]
Pond Plant Baskets – Using Containers, Beds and Planting Baskets
Nothing brings a new pond alive so quickly as adding some plants. Once you’ve selected some good examples, all that remains to do is plant them [...]
Plants for a Small Garden Pond
There’s no escaping how attractive a well planted water feature can look, but if space is restricted, picking the best pond plants for a small garden [...]
Choosing Rock, Stone and Gravel for Your Pond
Picking the right type of rock for your pond – and then using it imaginatively once you’ve made your selection – can make such a difference [...]
Creating a Japanese Themed Garden Pond
The appeal of the Japanese garden really became established in Britain towards the end of the Nineteenth Century and with its unique blend of hard, man-made [...]
Upgrading Your Water Fountain
Once they’ve been built, ponds generally tend to enjoy a fairly long life and form permanent features in the garden. Although garden fashions don’t tend to [...]
Landscaping the Pond Margins
Although the deliberate isolation of some types of water features – raised or formal ponds, for instance – is what gives them their impact, for many [...]
Pond Plants for Free
For most gardeners, there is something quite irresistible about the thought of getting plants for free, whether to increase your stock or obtain something completely new. [...]
Decking for Ponds
Although some form of paving or hard standing has long-been the traditional way to edge a pond, the use of decking has been steadily gaining in [...]
Pond Trees – Choosing the tree for around your pond
There are few things which look quite so magical as the reflection of trees in water – their sweeping foliage bowing down to touch the [...]
Plants for Your Pond
However clever the design of your pond, it is not until it has plants in it and around it, that it really begins to come alive. [...]
Installing Fountains and Water Features
With modern liner materials and the reliability of today’s pumps it has never been easier to provide running water in the garden and the range of [...]
Fountains and Water Features
Running water adds an entirely new dimension to any garden – whether as part of a pond or as a separate stand-alone feature – bringing life [...]
Lighting Your Pond
Adding lighting to a pond can transform the evening garden – particularly if there is a fountain or water fall – and instantly double its impact [...]
Creating a Waterfall
Few sounds are as relaxing as the gentle splash of running water – and for many of us the thought of being able to enjoy that [...]
Creating a Bog Plant Shelf in Your Pond
Bog plants and marginals come in a wide array of colours and shapes offering unparalleled possibilities for planting your pond. A careful selection arranged imaginatively can [...]