If you live in a cooler climate like I do (the U.S. Midwest), perhaps you are experiencing a slowdown this time of year. It might be time to sit back and take a long-deserved break. You’ve worked hard all season, and it’s time to take it down a notch. Now is also a good time …
As the chorus of the song “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell famously goes, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” The lyric implies that urban development all too often swallows up what were once blissful green spaces. While reclamation projects like the Highline Greenway in New York completed in 2014 have bucked …
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Pondemonium 2022 returned live and in-person at the Q Center in St. Charles, Illinois, after the pandemic had forced the popular pond training event to be hosted online for two consecutive years. Aquascape excitedly welcomed and hosted hundreds of contractors, retailers and distributors from around the world from Aug. 27 – 30, 2022. Rising Tribe …
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, while others are a real challenge, more resembling …
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Most pond owners come to have a passion not only for the aesthetic of their pond, but also for the aquatic life that inhabits it. At Fitz’s Fish Ponds, our passion lies with Japanese koi. Over the past decade, we have learned a lot about the optimal ways to keep koi healthy. Everything heavily relies …
How many times a week is a return phone call missed? A follow-up quote forgotten? A quick checkup on a client not completed? The list goes on. We’re all human, and quite frankly, running a business can be overwhelming sometimes. We forget to send that quote or email, to make that phone call to a …
Wouldn’t we all love to see a large-scale pond in every yard in America? Unfortunately, not all potential customers have the space or budget for a gigantic, six-figure pond in their backyards. We are well versed in all the reasons why large bodies of water are beneficial to the local ecosystem and create tranquil places …
It was early spring 2021 when the client first contacted us at The Pond Gnome. She absolutely loved the pond we had built at a local nursery that she frequents. The nursery owner sent her our way to get one of her own. We love referral leads because they tend to be people who are …