Garden Ponds For Landscape

At the base of your rock garden adding a garden pond with fish and water plants, with a fountain in the center an colored lights on the bottom shinning up will add beauty to your rock garden and landscape

Depending on the size of garden pond you are planing, you should be able to purchase everything on line that you will need.

After you decide the size of garden pond you want you can order a pond base, the shell that will hold the water. Then you will need to pick out a pump, or fountain if you want to have running water in the pond. Again you will find just what you need on line.

Decide what type of pond you would like, you may want a flat garden pond, this is done by setting the base right on the ground and surrounding it with rocks. Or you may want a raised garden pond, pile up dirt, flattening the top, then setting the bottom of your base into the dirt, until its a snug fit. Build rocks up around the dirt mound, Plant flowers near the garden pond. With everything to be had possibilities are endless.

If you build your garden pond at the base of a rock garden it will serve two purposes, a garden pond and also water for the stream in the rock garden. All can be done with one pump.

Make sure your pond is in a shady area out of the sun or your water will turn green.

You can add fish to the garden pond, common goldfish, fancy goldfish, mullies, and koi. Common goldfish will live for many many years with general care. The size of your garden pond and water quality will determine how large your fish will grow.

Don't place the water pump at the deepest part of the garden pond, should the fountain or the pump get turned over, and the water then is pumped out of the pond, the pond will empty. If the pump is placed on the shallow end there will still be water in the pond so your fish will survive till the problem is fixed.

Garden ponds with water hyacinths, when established, work at removing the nutrients from the water that algae thrive on and will help keep water clear.

A garden pond will add beauty and sound to your rock garden with the stream of running water into the pond.