Best websites to help plan a water garden?

If the $2500 includes a really good filtration system, then yea, with fish,
plants, etc. sounds about right. Rocks/boulders probably are pretty pricey,
something I didn't have to purchase.

Since I don't know your designer personally, the one thing I'd recommend is
talking to people where he's installed ponds and find out the maintenance
needed.

A pond with a good filteration system, skimmer(s) & bottom drain(s)
requires very little "hard core" maintenance. Where you have to drain and
tear down the whole pond yearly, and yes, unfortunately there are systems
that require this. ~ jan

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

~Keep 'em Wet!~
Tri-Cities WA Zone 7a
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:39:06 GMT, wrote:

Thanks for all the links.

A guy who goes to my church is a landscape designer, and he does lots
of water features for the wealthy. I'm friendly with him, so I called
him today and asked how much it would cost for his design expertise
only, if I do all the work.

He said he would charge me $25/hr, and that he estimates a total of 10
hours, but that includes all the design, delivering the rocks and
boulders, and checking up on me while I'm building it to make
corrections.

Sound pretty good?

I've seen his work...he does beautiful stuff.
I told him the space I have to work with, and he thinks a waterfall,
short stream, and pond with fish will cost me about $2500.

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:22:15 -0500, rasta wrote:

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i forgot to add this link, it's the home page of a previous link i
posted. *much* info here.

http://www.webspace4me.net/~mikehill/index.html#build

positive vibes, rasta
http://rynholland.tripod.com/
http://rynholland.tripod.com/pond/id2.html
http://rynholland.tripod.com/pond/id1.html

Thanks for all the links.

A guy who goes to my church is a landscape designer, and he does lots
of water features for the wealthy. I'm friendly with him, so I called
him today and asked how much it would cost for his design expertise
only, if I do all the work.

He said he would charge me $25/hr, and that he estimates a total of 10
hours, but that includes all the design, delivering the rocks and
boulders, and checking up on me while I'm building it to make
corrections.

Sound pretty good?

I've seen his work...he does beautiful stuff.
I told him the space I have to work with, and he thinks a waterfall,
short stream, and pond with fish will cost me about $2500.

http://www.mikebentley.com/ponds/pondlinks.htm

I just noticed that this place:
http://www.nwgponds.com/tour.htm

in only a half-hour from me!

http://www.mikebentley.com/ponds/pondlinks.htm

I just noticed that this place:
http://www.nwgponds.com/tour.htm

in only a half-hour from me!

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:36:18 GMT, wrote:

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.

yup, this one's in my library also. the thing about these books i they
make it look *so easy*. there are many fine points they don't cover. i
learned that preparation is the single most important process. we need
to have the pond planned in our heads and use mental storyboards each
step of the way.

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

this link is especially helpful for locating manufacturers' sites.
these are hard to google (as you already found out).
http://www.mikebentley.com/ponds/pondlinks.htm

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.

this is where google shines. a simple string of key searchwords in
this very group will bring up a wealth of info. also google is handy
for searching for pond pics, using their "images"page.

another useful resource:
http://www.webspace4me.net/~mikehill...struction.html

positive vibes, rasta
http://rynholland.tripod.com/
http://rynholland.tripod.com/pond/id2.html
http://rynholland.tripod.com/pond/id1.html