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Hosta Plants for Pond Landscaping
With blue-green, green, and variegated leaves, hosta plants are ideal for landscaping around the pond. Pair them with pond lighting and rocks for stunning water gardens.
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Winter-Flowering Shrubs Complement a Pond
Winter and early spring flowers can bring color, structure, and scent to the winter and early spring pond garden.
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Planting Mosses in Your Garden
Attractive options are available even in gardens in shady conditions. Mosses are easy to grow and are low maintenance. Proper preparation will ensure planting success.
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UV Pond Filters
Reduce green water! Use an ultraviolet pond filter or clarifier as one part of an algae control plan for a pond.
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Prevent Algae Growth in Fish Ponds
Taking steps to prevent algae growth in a fish pond with natural prevention methods helps pond owners avoid all types of algae, including toxic blue-green algae.
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The Best Gifts for Wetland Gardeners
Rain chains, rain gardens, miniature gardens, wildlife habitats, and wetland plants are all great gift ideas for the wetland or bog gardener.
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The Best Gifts for Pond Lovers
Choose a present for a gardener who loves ponds! Landscaping and design services, pond accessories, and pond plants are some just a few gift ideas for water gardeners.
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Finding Pond Plants Online
Buying pond and bog plants like lilies and iris online increases the availability of interesting species. Think about when to ship and what pond plants to buy online.
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Raccoons and the Koi Pond
Raccoons are clever predators of the fish in the koi pond. Netting, decoys, sprayers, and motion detector lights are all ways to stop raccoons from eating fish.
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Black and Purple Flowers for the Pond
Use dark flowers in black, brown, and purple to contrast with variegated foliage and light-colored flowers or to complement the colors of moving and still water.
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Fish Pond Maintenance for Fall
Maintaining a Koi pond or goldfish pond takes extra effort in the fall of the year to help the fish and plants transition to a dormant state for the winter months.
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Removing Fall Debris From the Pond
Pond netting, manual nets and rakes, skimmers, and filters can all help control the inflow of debris and maintain healthy water quality in the fall and winter pond.
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Winter Maintenance in the Frozen Koi Pond
Learn how to let a koi pond freeze in the winter. Reduce fish feeding, turn off the pump, and create an air hole to do winter pond maintenance without a deicer or heater.
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Great Inspirational Water Quotes
Choose inspirational water quotes, sayings, and poetry about water to adorn pond signs and banners.
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How to Grow Waterlilies
A simple to follow tutorial on the care and culture of waterlilies Nymphaea.
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Pond Skimmers Help Remove Debris
Consider how to deal with pond debris and ammonia. A pond net, cover, or skimmer will help create a healthy water environment for fish and plants.
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Garden Water Fountains for a Pool or Patio
The sparkle and murmur of a garden fountain can transform a garden. There are many types of ready to instal fountains on the market, but it's also easy to create your own
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Indoor Water Features
Use indoor water fountains and water features to create a relaxed, zen mood in a home or office space.
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Choosing a Filter for a Fish Pond
Choose a gravity flow or pressurized filter to clean pond water. Adding a UVC filter will also help remove algae. Or choose to make a natural filter using pond plants.
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Hydroponics – An Effective Way to Grow Plants
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants without soil. This unique method has numerous advantages and has the ability to solve the food problems of the world.
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Hydroponics
Many years ago, the Aztecs used hydroponics to produce fast-growing floating plant gardens. Today, hydroponics, also known as pond culture, is employed worldwide.
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A Seat by the Pond
Use wooden, wrought iron, or cast aluminum benches to draw attention to the pond, or use them as a place to sit quietly next to the water garden.
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The Many Colors of Water Lilies
Tropical and hardy water lilies offer many colors to adorn the pond or water garden. Varieties include white, pink, red, and even blue water lilies.
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What Aquatic Insects Say About a Pond
Looking for a simple water quality test for the pond? Look no further than pollution-sensitive aquatic insects such as dragonfly larvae, caddisflies, and diving beetles.
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Natural Ways to Remove Pond Algae
Algae is a plant that grows in ponds and water gardens. Learn natural ways to control, treat, and remove pond algae.
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A Pond Dipping Kit
Use a water garden to learn about aquatic insects, and use pond invertebrates to learn about the health of a backyard pond.
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How to Fight Pond Algae
Pond algae can be fought in a number of ways, and the sooner you take steps to control algae, the better the chances will be that your pond stays clear all summer long.
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Pond Plants In Summer
Early summer is normally the best time to organise the plants in and around your garden pond.
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The Aquatic Herb Garden
These water garden plants are both edible and unique. Grow these herbs to add flavor to a pond or wetland garden or expand a vegetable patch.
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How to Build a Waterfall in Your Garden
Modern garden pond pumps and preformed pond liners or flexible liners make it easy to create water features like streams, waterfalls and cascades for your water garden.
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Water Lilies
Water lilies are beautiful plants. Given the bewildering range, knowing their purpose and disadvantages of the main types helps one make the right selection for the pond.
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How to Build a Pond Using a Flexible Liner
Good quality EPDM and PVC pond liners, and butyl rubber liners, are easy to use and make it easy to build a pond or garden water feature of almost any shape or size.
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Choosing the Material for Your Pond
Garden pools can give hours of pleasure, and modern materials make it easy to build your own pond, but it's important to choose the right material for your situation.
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Ornamental Water Features for the Garden
Pond, fountain, stream or waterfall, water features can enhance most gardens. Many can be bought ready to install; creating your own is easy, and often more attractive.
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Visit Claude Monet's Water Garden
Giverny is the home town of painter Claude Monet, famous for his water lilies painting. Enjoy a tour or casual visit to this historic water garden in Normandy.
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Water Gardening
A water garden can add an interesting and attractive element to your landscape plan. Enjoy all the benefits that a beautiful water garden can add to your property.
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Make a Frog Pond
A water garden or small pond can be an ideal home for frogs and salamanders. Make sure it is free of pesticides and has plenty of wetland plants and insects.
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Opening a Pond in Spring
After winter, ponds need some maintenance to get them started. Taking a few things into consideration while opening a pond will help ensure it stays healthy all season.
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Curly Chinese Bamboo
Chinese bamboo is a low maintenance house plant. It is also said to bring luck to the home through feng shui. It is a striking addition to an indoor water garden
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Pond Cleaning
Ponds need to be maintained to keep pet fish clean and healthy. As well as regular routines, a yearly clean is a sensible precaution.
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Green Taro in the Water Garden
Colocasia esculenta is a hardy, prolific bog plant perfect for water gardens and small ponds. Its long, fibrous roots make an excellent "veggie filter."
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Bog Garden Spotlight on Water Poppy
The Water Poppy may or may not even be a family of plants, depending on where the question is asked.
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Bog Garden Spotlight on Vinca Minor
Common Periwinkle is an evergreen bog plant that grows fast and easy.
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Winter Water Garden Maintenance
A look at seasonal maintenance for water gardens in the Winter season.
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Fall Water Garden Maintenance
A look at seasonal maintenance for water gardens in the Fall season.
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Summer Water Garden Maintenance
A look at seasonal maintenance for water gardens in the Summer season.
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Spring Water Garden Maintenance
A look at seasonal maintenance for water gardens in the Spring season
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More Out of the Norm Fish for a Water Garden
There are five more alternatives to the koi and goldfish for a pond or water garden; see if one entices you.
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Submerged Plants as Natural Water Purifiers
Aquatic plants are important to the water garden or pond both in beauty and in function.
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Water Plant Spotlight on Common Reed
Overview of Common Reed, an invasive water plant, and what it can and can't do for a garden.
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