Best websites to help plan a water garden?

Hi...we are finally going to put in a brick patio this year, and I
hope to put in the water garden I've always wanted.

I have Ortho's All About Garden Ponds book.

Are there any websites that you experts recommend for tips and How
To's, especially for helping me to plan?

I'd also like to find out which brands are best as far as liners,
pumps, etc.

Google comes up with so many sites, but most of them are retailers
with a couple of paragraphs of How To.

I live in northwestern IL, so we get cold winters, and I'd like to
have fish.
I've put this off for years because I've been intimidated by it, but I
hope this year I can put my back into it and get it done.

Thanks,
Mitch

Take a look at MSN groups http://groups.msn.com/TheOldGardenPond

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Hi...we are finally going to put in a brick patio this year, and I
hope to put in the water garden I've always wanted.

I have Ortho's All About Garden Ponds book.

Are there any websites that you experts recommend for tips and How
To's, especially for helping me to plan?

I'd also like to find out which brands are best as far as liners,
pumps, etc.

Google comes up with so many sites, but most of them are retailers
with a couple of paragraphs of How To.

I live in northwestern IL, so we get cold winters, and I'd like to
have fish.
I've put this off for years because I've been intimidated by it, but I
hope this year I can put my back into it and get it done.

Thanks,
Mitch

Take a look at MSN groups http://groups.msn.com/TheOldGardenPond

wrote in message
...
Hi...we are finally going to put in a brick patio this year, and I
hope to put in the water garden I've always wanted.

I have Ortho's All About Garden Ponds book.

Are there any websites that you experts recommend for tips and How
To's, especially for helping me to plan?

I'd also like to find out which brands are best as far as liners,
pumps, etc.

Google comes up with so many sites, but most of them are retailers
with a couple of paragraphs of How To.

I live in northwestern IL, so we get cold winters, and I'd like to
have fish.
I've put this off for years because I've been intimidated by it, but I
hope this year I can put my back into it and get it done.

Thanks,
Mitch

Many of us have links in our sig files that show our ponds. Though there
may not be exactly the pond that you are looking for, you will find a wealth
of ideas and information, and then can question for specifics. There is no
one book that is right for all situations, but there are several that may be
listed that are good starting points.
--
RichToyBox
http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondintro.html
wrote in message
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Hi...we are finally going to put in a brick patio this year, and I
hope to put in the water garden I've always wanted.

I have Ortho's All About Garden Ponds book.

Are there any websites that you experts recommend for tips and How
To's, especially for helping me to plan?

I'd also like to find out which brands are best as far as liners,
pumps, etc.

Google comes up with so many sites, but most of them are retailers
with a couple of paragraphs of How To.

I live in northwestern IL, so we get cold winters, and I'd like to
have fish.
I've put this off for years because I've been intimidated by it, but I
hope this year I can put my back into it and get it done.

Thanks,
Mitch

Many of us have links in our sig files that show our ponds.

I started with your own. :-)
Very nice.

My biggest problem is not the work, but the design.
I would love to be able to find a picture of a water garden that I
like, get a materials list, and just build it.

The total area I have to work with is about 8' x 20'.
I really want a small waterfall, and I'd like to have fish.

My biggest problem is not the work, but the design.

In that case, look at all the websites in sig lines and then ask the
specific ponder(s) how to go forth. I think many of us would agree that the
best advice, imho, is not just the pond design, but the filter design. I
thought I was just going to put in a water garden with a few fish. HA! So 4
ponds later...... ~ jan

See my ponds and filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

~Keep 'em Wet!~
Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a
To e-mail see website

In that case, look at all the websites in sig lines and then ask the
specific ponder(s) how to go forth.

Yeah, I'm reading everything I can now.

Here's a question: any tips for finding good deals on boulders?
I know they are very expensive at landscape and garden centers.

On Sun, 02 May 2004 12:11:04 GMT, wrote:


In that case, look at all the websites in sig lines and then ask the
specific ponder(s) how to go forth.

Yeah, I'm reading everything I can now.

Here's a question: any tips for finding good deals on boulders?
I know they are very expensive at landscape and garden centers.

I have a tilt-bed trailer with a winch (spent $450 for the whole
thing).

I went to a new subdivision under construction and found a place where
they'd had to remove boulders to build the house and asked the
contractor. Saved him the cost of having them hauled away.

Back the trailer up to a rock, tilt it down, wrap a cargo strap around
the rock, then winch it up onto the trailer.

Be sure to ask first, though. At one place I asked, the homeowner
wanted to keep the rocks.

Getting the rocks -off- the trailer was relativley simple. Place
trailer in boulder's desired location, park another vehicle at the
back end of the trailer. Chain cargo strap to parked vehicle, drive
trailer out from under boulder ever-so-carefully.

HTH

Mike Patterson
Please remove the spamtrap to email me.

On Sun, 02 May 2004 12:11:04 GMT, wrote:


In that case, look at all the websites in sig lines and then ask the
specific ponder(s) how to go forth.

Yeah, I'm reading everything I can now.

Here's a question: any tips for finding good deals on boulders?
I know they are very expensive at landscape and garden centers.

I have a tilt-bed trailer with a winch (spent $450 for the whole
thing).

I went to a new subdivision under construction and found a place where
they'd had to remove boulders to build the house and asked the
contractor. Saved him the cost of having them hauled away.

Back the trailer up to a rock, tilt it down, wrap a cargo strap around
the rock, then winch it up onto the trailer.

Be sure to ask first, though. At one place I asked, the homeowner
wanted to keep the rocks.

Getting the rocks -off- the trailer was relativley simple. Place
trailer in boulder's desired location, park another vehicle at the
back end of the trailer. Chain cargo strap to parked vehicle, drive
trailer out from under boulder ever-so-carefully.

HTH

Mike Patterson
Please remove the spamtrap to email me.

In that case, look at all the websites in sig lines and then ask the
specific ponder(s) how to go forth.

Yeah, I'm reading everything I can now.

Here's a question: any tips for finding good deals on boulders?
I know they are very expensive at landscape and garden centers.