Gary Allen's How to Build a Disaster

DT wrote:

K30a wrote:

Here is the whole WSJ article.


Patience Runs Dry
With Water Gardens


"It's time that I'd rather spend working in the garden," he says.


...he forgot to refill it all the way.


His bargain-basement garden suddenly got a
lot more expensive...


Is anybody noticing a trend here? These all sound like
"buy-it-and-forget-it" types.

And, like the design on the HGTV show - they didn't design a "buy it and
forget it" pond. The poor folks that got that pond probably will have to
do the amount of maintainence that the WSJ article mentions.

Daily water quality checks? Pond wall collapsing? Thigh deep yucky mud?
cleaning the bottom weekly? totally drained and scrubbed once a year?
What!?

Those all point to BAD DESIGN. Probably built by swimming pool
contractors or people that watched these half informed TV shows.

garyr