Pond Design Ideas

No, this is not a profound design post.  Books, in fact, volumes of books have been written about design.  From gardens to houses to cities, we can find books about design.  This is a post of photos of ponds I have built, so you can see my ideas about design. Mostly, it's about what people want and what fits in their gardens and their lifestyles.

Two separate ponds make to look like one after the client decided his original pond needed to be bigger. Done without having to redo the entire first pond.

This is on the second floor courtyard of a huge condo-plex. 13 tons of rocks hauled to the second floor. By hand. One shopping cart at a time.

Client wanted to see pond from out the window. So the pond was built up instead of dug down. Those light spots are misters I installed to give it a mysterious and romantic look.

This waterfall is powered by an artesian well flowing into a 7 acre bayou.  I had to climb up the bottom of the waterfall to build the top.  That's like packing your own parachute.

This is a rather formal pond in the courtyard of Broussard's Restaurant in the French Quarter. Great place to eat, by the way.

This pond is 22 feet long with two waterfalls. The client wanted to hear water and even installed a baby monitor outside so he could hear it in the bedroom.

This pond was built at City Park in New Orleans for the Spring Garden Show back in 1990.  It won a design award.  See how to use hard materials in the design. Without the pot, the design fails.

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Thanks for visiting today.  Have a great holiday weekend.