Water Gardens Blog
I really like my water gardens. In my old garden, I had several and now that I have a new garden, I'm doing the landscaping to install a rather large pond (one I can swim in) but like all things - they somehow take longer than you plan on. :-)
In the meantime, here's what I've learned about ponds and water gardens and I'm pleased to share these articles and thoughts with you.
Doug
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Mar 7, 2010, fish die after winter
all my fish and frog died after blizzards when i lost power and the pond froze over.....is it best to drain and clean all the sludge from the bottom....
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Mar 5, 2010, Building a pond sequence
First, let me say thank you for site and info. Late summer, '09, I went from 200-10,000 gallon koi pond, with Japanese design and garden, to come, I hope!
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Feb 8, 2010, Pond Creatures
When it comes to beasts and birds and pondcreatures in the water garden, there are a few of the good kind andthere are a few of the not-so-welcome kind
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Feb 8, 2010, Duckweed
Duckweed is also known as Lemna minor. These small bits of green (one sixteenth to one quarter of an inch across) can blanket...
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Feb 8, 2010, Turtle Ponds
Turtle ponds are, quite fortunately, not much harder to construct than fish ponds. In fact, it is going to be very...
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Feb 8, 2010, Garden Ponds
As regular readers know, I have a soft spot in my gardening world for garden ponds and last week, I spent a day taking a contractors course...
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Feb 8, 2010, Keeping Herons Out of Your Pond
Herons are the bane of larger ponds in suburban or rural areas. These long legged fishers of expensive koi are quite the predator.
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Feb 8, 2010, backyard waterfalls
One of the things we all love is backyardwaterfalls and pictures of them - and there is no finer way to designyour own than seeing what other folks have done with theirs.
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Feb 8, 2010, how to build a bog
You need to know how to build a bog if you want to grow anentire class of plants that many gardeners ignore. Or worse, if theytry to grow them, they fail miserably.
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Feb 8, 2010, pond side perennials
The list below is a good starting listfor pond side perennials that will thrive in the wet areas nextto ponds.
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Feb 8, 2010, pond snails
Pond snails and slugs are more a gardening problemin land-based gardens but sometimes a population will get out ofcontrol in the home pond.
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Feb 8, 2010, Building Koi Ponds
Building Koi ponds (or ponds for other fish for that matter) is similar to building water gardens for plants.
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Feb 5, 2010, water garden design
Water garden design is the thing that makes orbreaks the total project. It is entirely one thing to have awell-constructed hole in the ground but unless you plant around itproperly, well… you have a great hole in the ground.
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Feb 5, 2010, water garden plants
There are several classes of water garden plantsthat arenecessary in every pond. The first thing you want to understandabout water gardening is that the plants form a complete ecology
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Feb 5, 2010, pond waterfalls
To get a decent pond waterfalls working , you haveto take a few simple things into consideration. To create avaluable addition to your yard, you might want to consider a few otherthings outlined in this series of articles
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Feb 5, 2010, Lotus
I like having lotus in my water garden areas and luckily they are easy to grow if you follow a few simple rules.<P></p><h3>Don't expect too much from the first few leaves.</h3><br /><br />Thefirst small leaves were not impressive; they resembled very small waterlily leaves. After two or three small leaves, a large leaf spikeemerges reaching for the sky.
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Feb 5, 2010, water lilies
Hardy water lilies are a major class of watergarden plants. I’lldescribe them here so you’ll be able to grow them successfully.
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Feb 5, 2010, pond lilies
Tropical pond lilies or water lilies are one ofthe fragrant wonders of the summer water garden but there are a fewthings you have to be aware of when growing these beauties.
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Feb 5, 2010, Algae Control
Algae control depends on what kind of algae you are dealing with. Generally speaking, you know you have algae because the water turns green or there's lots of green stringy stuff in the water. Pretty simple - right? While there can be exceptions to the following thumb rules, the following will eliminate the majority of problems
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Feb 4, 2010, Little TRI-Ponds
IF, your 'urban setting', lot-plot doesn't have room for 'both', your in planning trouble. But one thing, I've found with 'homemade' gardener's', they
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Feb 1, 2010, will a lily come back
I live in Phoenix, AZ last summer we bought 2 tropical and 1 Hardy lillies. They all did great all summer and even in the fall. The 2 Tropical plants died
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Jan 26, 2010, Not enough nutrients
I have a large, above ground pond, with fish and waterlillies. When my water lilies became route bound I emptied them out of their pots directly onto
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Jan 25, 2010, how far do I cut back lillies
I have been told that I should cut back lillies hard during the winter ready for new growth in the spring. If this is true, how hard should I cut them
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Jan 22, 2010, Pond Critters not staying put!
Dear Doug, We have had a pond in our yard for 6 years now and we love it. The pond is roughly 2600-3000 gallons and in the shape of a heart. There
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Jan 19, 2010, backyard fish pond
5 backyard fish pond advice tipis from garden author Doug Green
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