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18
Jul

Build Yourself a Pond: Here’s How

Your backyard is beautiful, it’s a work of art. Your flowers are in bloom and your grass is green and healthy, but you are missing something. A backyard pond can be the icing on the cake, the perfect item for completion of your backyard oasis. Here’s how you do it. Find the Perfect Location A

05
Feb

Opening your pond in spring

Opening Your Pond In Spring If a pond is well installed, it can be the most attractive part of your landscape, however, if not installed properly it can be one of the most difficult items to maintain. When you are ready to open your pond in spring it is important to perform several jobs.

Building a pond

Building a pond Water gardening has become one of the newest and fastest growing trends in garden design in the past 5 years. However, water gardening has been around for a very long time. There are many factors to building a pond. Understanding the entire process before you begin will be very helpful in

Winterizing your pond

Winterizing your pond Having a pond is often associated with a lot of work, but there is really very little that needs to be done to keep a pond, and even less to maintain the pond over winter. In Ottawa, you can keep your pond running for most of the year, and many people do

Controlling Algae

Controlling Algae in Your Pond There are two types of algae to be concerned about in your decorative pond. The first is suspended algae which is a free floating algae that causes your pond to turn the greenish colour often referred to as pea soup. The second type of algae is string algae which creates