Pumkin Spice When these words are spoken too soon, they are actually cringeworthy! As I write this column, we are still in the throws of summer, and it’s not something I want to think about. In the midwest, summer is a treasure, and we live life to the fullest in the summer! But by the …
Back in the mid ’80s, pond builders had far fewer off-the-shelf solutions available. We built and rebuilt what we needed to get the job done — often many times before we got it right. Here are some of my more successful Greybeard Hacks. Bulletproof Bottom Drains My first ponds were large, occupying the whole of …
Second time around for formal turtle and koi pond It’s not often that you get a chance to design more than one formal turtle and koi pond for a customer. I’ve been fortunate enough to have that happen a handful of times. The client will move, or in one instance, just jump from one general …
By Roger and Melody Sears The call came in from a current customer, Mike Hartman, the owner of H & H Excavating. A friend of his wanted a 1-acre earth-bottom pond with a big waterfall and a bog filtering system. Mike had told his friend that H & H could dig the pond, but they …
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Step out of your creative comfort zone I began my water feature career 24 years ago at a greenhouse/nursery selling pond products. From there, my love of everything water grew tremendously. I went from working at a pond supply shop to working at multiple landscape companies that specialized in water features. Finally I started my …