Picture this: a small backyard centered around a beautiful koi pond where colorful, charismatic fish attract the eye like a framed painting come to life. The space is wrapped in undulating garden beds detailed with mountain stones, soft moss, ferns and blooming azaleas. Resting on pedestals throughout the landscape are tiny trees — bonsai — […]
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Maintaining a decorative waterscape is a byword for eternal vigilance. When it comes to caring for streams, ponds and lakes, it is as though each individual water feature has its own distinct personality. Some are easygoing and never seem to require anything more than simple preventive measures. Others are a real challenge, more resembling bratty
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Black Oak Foundry developed a new line of glass backplates to add that touch of color to your pool or water feature environment.
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The Zenshu Yasuyuki stone fountain makes a statement and adds interest to your landscape with its natural rough sides and flat polished surface surrounding three fountain plumes.
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The new spouted Triple Corten Steel Rusted Fountain Urn Kit feels like rusty farm tools repurposed to adorn the garden with a twist. The tooled, 19th century aged-metal look of these corten weathered steel fountains is squared off into a modern industrial fountain design. A perpetual hand-me-down spillway falls brings both history and style together
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As Designer and Lead Installer at Garden State Koi, I work on many larger size water garden projects. I was sent to Hawley, Pennsylvania to clean out a pond and redo an old waterfall. This was no ordinary task. I had to meet the homeowners’ expectations for a beautiful natural waterfall that would also hide
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As owner of All Aquatics, I was approached by a home builder looking for a contractor capable of building a modern pond and water feature envisioned by a homeowner. “Could I build what the client envisioned?” he asked. I accepted the challenge, recognizing the difficulties that lie ahead. Building was underway and the foundation and
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Check out these stunning runner-up entries For the first time in the contest’s history, two runners-up also won first place in a different category. We’re thrilled to see our first female finalist from last year place second in the same category again this year. In our humble opinion, second place never looked so good! Check
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As I wrote this article, I found myself using the term “traditional” to describe koi ponds with clean lines and more of a geometric design than those natural koi ponds seen in beautiful Japanese Zen gardens. This made me pause to consider my choice of words. As Steve Urkel would say, “Did I do that?”
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Homeowners Personalize Their Spaces in the Planting Phase Plants, both terrestrial and aquatic, are a huge part of naturalizing a newly constructed water feature. Not only do plants help soften up the hardscape, but they also help tie everything together. After the chaos of the construction phase has come to an end, and the machine
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