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Ponds & Water Features

Ponds & Water Features

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Ponds and water features are becoming more and more popular each and every year. From pondless waterfalls to all kinds of water features such as fountains and streams, ponds and water features can enhance your home's landscape and even help increase your home's overall value. Pond design and planning can be confusing. That's where Hometalk comes in to help! From advice on how to find a professional pond installer, to the best water feature to include, we are here to help.



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  • This is the pond in front of our house.  Built by previous owners.  Fun, but dirty w/the trees surrounding.
  • Front of house w/large garden in front, and to the side.  Entry gate is to the left of the corner of the house.  Hoping to build deck along the length of house

Outdoor Living: Our Front Yard Pond and Other Projects

We just purchased this house and it has a great 3/4 acre yard with a pond in front. It has a fountain, w/a spray fountain (see white pvc pipe in pic). We like it OK, but it is dirty as it ...»
is under the trees and gets lots of leaves in it. The fountain leaks in back and the water keeps getting lower and lower, probably a hole in the liner somewhere.

So we are thinking of filling in the pond w/small red lava landscaping rock on bottom (lots of this in a garden we are redoing and I dislike it), then river rocks on top w/the fountain still bubbling up in the middle. Any suggestions on how to do this properly so that the water will not leak out, and we don't have to continue to refill the water level? Thanks for any ideas, I live in Wyoming so there is LOTS of snow in the winter and it is only used in the summer months.

Now we are also going to redo the front of the house w/a full length deck (eventually a roof over it). Have some cinder blocks, and thought about using wood decking over them w/the blocks as support. Do we need to place the blocks in sand to level? Or how should we proceed?

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Kris Lee Jackson, WY 2 days ago
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    Kris Lee 3 hours ago
    You guys are all awesome. ...»

    Backyard Getaway, I didn't know that lava rock decomposes. Thanks for that tip. Will have to do away w/the lava rock another way. We are very handy and so will attempt to do this ourselves. Yes it is the waterfall that leaks in the back, but I like that part of it, though it wasn't really done well to begin with. So maybe we will knock it down and create a different type of water feature. I have accumulated several pottery style lamps (minus the electrical parts)in various heights and shapes. I have painted them and was going to use them as a varied level water feature. I was going to put them in front of the raised garden in the front yard and eliminate that plastic pond liner there, but maybe I'll just put them on top of the river rock fill in and make it a focal point.....hmmm, you have me thinking now. Thanks for all your helpful comments.

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Above Ground Pond

How to build an Above ground pond with garden... to see more on this go to

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Tammy H Corona, CA 2 days ago
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    Tammy H 8 hours ago
    thank you ... I know what you mean about soil ... We don't have the best here either, so this ...»
    really made it a lot easier

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Pond Renovation

Photos of a pond we just rebuilt. The water hasn't had a chance to clear up yet, and it still needs aquatic plants. I'll post more photos on this later.
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C.E. Pontz Sons Lancaster, PA Yesterday
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    Carla Champlin 8 hours ago
    This is beautiful! How did you hide the liner so well?
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Before & After

Before and After photos of a pond build
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C.E. Pontz Sons Lancaster, PA 2 days ago
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Outdoor Living: KOI ~~ SNATCHED BY BIRDS or STOLEN ????

Does anyone know if it is at all possible that a Blue Heron or an Egret would be able to take "5" Koi at one time? Then come back the next day and take 4 more; the next day he/she/they ...»
took the remaining "3". Yes, after the first hit we tried to protect the pond even more than it already is. The pond is relatively well-covered with tree branches. I'm thinkin' the one of the roofers next door came and helped himself to our fish thinking that they were worth $$$. Any thoughts out there? They were so precious to us ~~ some being over 20-years old.

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Bonnie B Shingle Springs, CA 5 days ago
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    Pamela Misch Riestenberg 2 hours ago
    i went to buy more fish yesterday and spoke with the man who owns a nursery by me and he said ...»
    instead of covering your pond, put a 6imch piece of black drainage tube in the bottom of your pond as an escape for the fish to hide. This way no animal can get not it, the raccoons cannot reach into it from end to end and the Heron cannot get to the fish. I am doing this as soon as I clean my pond. Also cut slits into the tubing for better water flow

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  • Here is my tea pot fountain in full bloom. 7
  • We drilled a a hole in the tea pot and then threaded it. We attached flanges to a solid concrete block to support both the tea pot and the gold pan. The block is heavy enough to support the weight of the unit underwater. 5
  • We then built a support for the gold pan and dropped the unit into the whiskey barrel. We added a fountain pump and inserted tubing up through the tee on the bottom of the pipe that supports the tea pot and into the tea pot. 1
  • Add water and your done! The unit is free standing so it can be leveled and no holes are drilled in the whiskey barrel. I put it all away every winter and take it out and set it up in the spring. 1
  • Last year we poured a concrete base that the whiskey barrel sits on so it doesn't sink into the dirt. 1
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Tea pot fountain instructions.

Here are the instructions of how we made my tea pot fountain. Hope it helps with all of you who are interested!
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Julee S Bangor, MI on Sep 29, 2012
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    Nancy a Butcher 15 hours ago
    I love all your ideals can"t with to try some of them,I think they are great !!!
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Pond Build

Renovation of an existing pond that was improperly constructed. We tore out the existing feature and rebuilt a proper ecosystem pond.
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C.E. Pontz Sons Lancaster, PA 3 days ago
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    Elisa 3 days ago
    WOW, This looks fantastic!
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Water Feature Pump Maintenance

Join Dave Kelly, The Tech Guy, as he shares maintenance and troubleshooting tips for getting the most out of your Aquascape AquaSurge® Pump.
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C.E. Pontz Sons Lancaster, PA 3 days ago
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  • Finished!
  • Here we are removing the existing plant shelf from the Aquascape Patio Pond
  • Customizing the pedestal to allow access to the pump
  • Putting everything in place. The millstone is heavier than it looks!

( notice the nice notch out on the patio pond for the cords?)
  • Our first test run... success!
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Unique Millstone Fountain Project in Orlando Area

As you can see fro the photos we used an Aquascape Patio Pond and removed the plant shelf. We installed a 10" pvc pipe in the center of the patio pond to create a pedestal for the mill ...»
stone. We added an LED accent light on the center plum and placed 3 1 watt LED lights under the stone to capture the water falling. This project made the perfect center piece for this garden design. What do ya think?

Pondtastic Water Gardens
Pondtastic Water Gardens Orlando, FL on Sep 03, 2012
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    C.E. Pontz Sons 3 days ago
    nice!
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Backyard Pond with Waterfall

Before we had a small pond and waterfall that was basically grade level. This spring my husband wanted to enlarge it with a bigger waterfall. He also hoped to add some extra seating. ...»
It has a cinder block wall that was covered with slate and topped with flagstone. The pond and waterfall was small of concrete and rocks and flagstone arranged on it to give it a more natural look. Now the water flows down the higher waterfall providing us with the soothing sounds of man made nature!!! Too see more, go to http://awalkinthecountryside.blogspot.com/20...

A Walk in the Countryside
A Walk in the Countryside Ethel, LA on Jul 18, 2012
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    All Things Heart and Home 3 days ago
    Love this so much! Went to your blog and it's so inspiring! xo
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