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Guide To Landscape Ponds


How To Transform Your Life And Your Yard

The pond is in and the bridge is up. So now what...you know what! You know you gotta landscape!

landscape-pondsPonds without pond landscaping -- well --that's just wrong.

















So, how does your glam water garden grow? Don't know yet?

No worries -- just use the Guide to Landscape Ponds.

It's here to show you pond plants, to give you planting tips, and to help you with pond algae control.

So let's jump in, and move your pond from fair to fiercely fabulous!

And when your love of water gardens grows bigger than the size of your pond, there's always pond landscaping, garden pond kits, pond waterfalls, and preformed pond liners for pond 2.0!


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Landscape Ponds with Native Plants

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landscape-ponds There are definitely advantages to using native plants:

  • Requires no fertilizer

  • No fertilizer means you save money and you save time

  • Native plants come in more colors and have longer flowering seasons

  • Lots of native plants to choose from

  • Tolerate weather in small garden ponds, so no overwintering required

  • No need to replace plants every year

  • And drum roll please, your pond is environmentally beneficial au-natural

Not only does fertilizer cost money, it also encourages algae to bloom.

Algae robs your pond of the oxygen your pond plants need to live.

Even without a fertilizer boost, you'll need pond algae control.

So why not let your pond plants to do their part.

Just make sure they cover 50%-70% of your pond's water surface. It's that easy!

Which bring us to just what kinds of plants you should be looking for.

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Landscape Ponds Plant Types

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The most dramatic and healthiest ponds have 3 flavors of plants:

  • Floating-leafed pond plants

  • Emergent pond plants

  • Submergent pond plants

Emergent plants are your marginals. They live around the edges of your pond -- hence the term: marginal.

landscape-ponds Their roots live in the water, and their shoots live in the air. Good examples are water lilies, arrowhead, and cattails.

Submergent plants like Elodea. A.k.a., Waterweed loves living almost entirely under water. And it has these tiny white flowers that peek out at you from the surface.

They're beneficial, too. They keep your pond water nice and clear by adding oxygen while removing carbon dioxide.

Anacharis is another good plant in this category. It competes with algae for food and usually wins.

Floating-leafed water plants love to float free and unanchored on the water's surface.

Examples are duckweed, water lettuce and the fabulously fragrant, water hyacinth.

Both water lettuce and water hyacinth spread pretty quickly, so you only need a few to get lots of bang for your buck.

Floating-leafed pond plants are great, because they block the sun that algae needs to thrive. So they're perfect for getting that 50%-70% of water surface water covered quickly. And these you won't even have to plant.

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Landscape Ponds Planting Tips

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With emergent or submergent plants to landscape ponds, just use plastic baskets you've lined with burlap or newspaper. Or use pulp planters if you prefer.

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Grab some topsoil and fill your basket just about half full.

Position the plant on top, then anchor it with more topsoil leaving an inch or so between the soil and the top of the basket.

Add a layer of gravel to keep the soil in place.

Water lily rhizomes are emergent divas so, handle them like you know.

Mound your topsoil in the basket and position the diva at a 45-degree angle with the crown towards the center of the basket.

Only cover the roots with dirt, but leave the crown exposed and add a layer of gravel.

Then slowly lower your planted baskets into the pond.

And remember, you can just drop floating-leafed pond plants onto the pond surface. No muss, no fuss!

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