How a Single Pond Sparked a Landmark Watercourse Project Our work at Halcyon, a retirement community located in Buderim, Queensland, Australia, began with something much smaller. Before any commercial discussions, before any plans for a 40-metre watercourse, came Ray’s Pond. We built this interactive, naturalistic water feature for a private residence within the growing over […]
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From our very first meeting, it was clear this project would be something special. The homeowners were a young, enthusiastic couple who had purchased their property, several acres of woodland along the shores of Lake Michigan, a few years prior. Since then, they had been thoughtfully developing the landscape season by season, moving intentionally from
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We are super excited about a new project we recently started. We are converting an old abandoned estate garden back to its original glory. Only this time we are building the water features our way. Believe it or not this was once a residential property. The property had been left unmaintained for quite some time
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Creating living hillside art for a local florist Mitchell’s Orland Park Florist is a staple to Orland Park, Illinois. You can’t talk to a dozen married couples without at least a few saying Mitchell’s had provided all the arrangements for their wedding. They have a perfect location that you find yourself passing by daily. Ever
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POND Trade is happy to announce the quarterly Contractor’s Corner winner. Our sponsor, Pondliner chose Tim Dille, from Garden State Koi. Tim and his team came up with a way to convince the homeowners to redo their entire pond, which involved an honest conversation explaining that the new waterfall didn’t match the old pond. He
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Pond-patio makeover spawns fountainscape project What I thought was going to be a rebuild of an 11-by-16-foot pond turned out to be much, much more. When the client initially contacted me, he sent some photos of his existing pond. It was your typical landscaper-built pond. You know the type — with the 2-by-3-foot, 8-inch-thick Eden
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