Ponds

Your garden will reflect your home. If it’s messy and unloved, don’t be surprised if your neighbours assume the same about your home! However, if you don’t have a natural…

A beautiful water garden often means having a natural pond filled with lovely aquatic plants and possibly even fish and other water loving animals. These ponds can contribute a healthy…

Keep your fish safe from natural predators like cats. Pond fish tend to swim close to the surface to warm themselves in the sun. This makes them easy prey. Because…

Before you can add fish to a new pond you have to create a stable pond environment. A stable pond environment is one in which water quality parameters naturally resist…

Pond fountains can provide you with a beautiful landscape until they become green with algae or black with mould due to infrequent cleaning. Often, the pumps used to flow water…

Take cuttings of fuchsia in summer. Take cuttings as shown and insert into a moist mixture of peat and sand having first dipped the end of the cutting in hormone…

Building your own pond is a challenging and rewarding project. Concrete block walls allow you to sit on the edge and enjoy your fishy friends. By building the pond partially…

Cleaning a Koi pond doesn’t have to mean taking out the fish, draining the pond, and refilling it. It can be as simple as draining only half the water and…

Pond liners occasionally leak. Finding the leak is difficult, but patching it is easy.Assuming your liner is rubber or EPDM and most are, you can patch it just like a…

Algae uses up necessary oxygen in pond, and can block the view of foliage or even live fish. Removing algae from ponds is fairly easy, but care must be taken…