Tuesday, October 31, 2006

More pond questions

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Is it ok to leave the water fall on during the winter MOS.? My husband thinks that if it freezes, the rocks around the fall will break, I...
Monday, October 30, 2006

Pond Questions

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Hello, Got a question, my skimmer box keeps emptying out by itself. Is it supposed to do that?, I have noticed that lately. It never did th...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

Using Pots in the Garden

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You can use most any container for plants in the garden. For me the key is using different heights of plants or pots. The great thing abou...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

Overwintering Tropical Water lilies

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To those of us who live in the Southern part of the US, winter rarely arrives and overwintering water lilies is far from our thoughts this e...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

Planting in SW Florida

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A guest writer today, Michael Spencer ASLA, MSA Design, Inc Regarding plant material that works in SW Florida, there are several good sou...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Newstead Abbey pond

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The gardens at Newstead Abbey in England, where Byron wrote are some 400 years old and incredibly beautiful even in October when this pictur...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Decorating the pond

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Have you ever thought about decorating your pond for the holidays. You can put a cinder block that you have spray painted black in the wate...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Pond spitters

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The spitter in the pond is a great way to get water sound with a small pump, thus saving electricity costs. The small pump used to power th...
Monday, October 23, 2006

To build a waterfall

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Yesterday I spoke of building two separate ponds rather than try to build a multi-level pond. This picture is an example of a multi-level po...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

Two level pond

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We had a small space to work in, very small. In order to add interest to our small space, we built a two level pond. But look closely. It i...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

Pond in a Sugar Kettle

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Here in Louisiana we grow sugar cane. In long ago days, the sugar was extracted by hand and the resulting liquid was put into kettles, some...
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Friday, October 20, 2006

Pond letters

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Dear Jan, I just started digging out a spot for my water garden. I got it about a foot deep before it started to rain. It has since fil...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Dechlor

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Please, please keep a bottle of dechlor on hand. If you never need it, that's wonderful, but here's why you need it. You turn the w...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Pond Pump Killers

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The pond pump uses an impeller, a small reverse propeller, to take in water. If a pump burns out, most of the time, it is the impeller that...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Pond pumps

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We rarely consider utility pumps as pond hobbyists, but I think it is useful to know they exist and wen to use them. When I was actually...
Monday, October 16, 2006

Around the pond

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My pond is built, now what? Until we landscape around the pond we have nothing but a rock pile. I try to use soft plants, plants that moun...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Above ground ponds

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I built this pond at the end of a driveway in front of the back porch. I talked for a long time to convince the client not to build a pon...
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Saturday, October 14, 2006

It's getting cold!

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Even down here in New Orleans, it's getting chilly. Mornings are down in the 50's and afternoons are reaching the 80's. I know...
Friday, October 13, 2006

More about pumps

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There are so many kinds of pumps for the pond: Electric motor driven, magnetic drives, solar driven. There are submersible pumps; we use th...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

How much does it cost to run a pump?

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Electric costs are easy to compute. I am often asked how much it costs to run a submersible pump and if there is a difference between brands...