http://www.water2garden.org Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:14:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Little Giant 1900 GPH pond pump, is a submersible water garden pump that will pump up to a maximum height of 20 feet, for those taller waterfalls and artificial creeks bringing power to your environment and awe to your audience. Although the water garden is an ancient feature of the desert ... http://www.water2garden.org/1900-gph-pond-pump/ Savio Rock Lid Cover was designed to camouflage living pool filtration systems, skimmer filters and any other artificial water garden equipment that might look more natural with a lightweight artificial rock covering. Most people when they are thinking about designing their first water garden, usually have the tendency to want to ... http://www.water2garden.org/savio-rock-lid-cover/ This floating water lily solar light is a three-piece set, with red, purple and yellow, bringing life to the pool or pond in the eight darkest hours of the day, without any additional electricity other than the gleaming sun. Forget about replacing disposable AA batteries, floating water lily solar lights recharge ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-lily-solar-light/ This Gold Fish Starter Kit is the perfect thing for a first or easy to handle freshwater pet, to enhance the home or office, for education, creativity and imagination, all in one. Orange and gold are said to bring happiness and prosperity in mystical circles, and in business or at home, ... http://www.water2garden.org/gold-fish-starter-kit/ Tired of filling your water garden with chlorine from tap water or are you under water restriction because of drought? Why not collect rainwater from your rooftop with a water garden barrel? In the past rain barrels were used on family farms to collect graywater to clean clothes and nourish ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-barrel/ HoMedics Indoor Fountains are part of the Envirascape Collection, intended to improve the well-being and quality of life by manufacturing popular, commercial environmental relaxation products. HoMedics designs attractive low cost wall hanging and tabletop fountains (see them all and/or purchase below, thank you!). For thousands of years humans have known the ... http://www.water2garden.org/homedics-indoor-fountains/ Rolled Bamboo Fencing in the water garden was probably originally introduced in the Japanese tea garden, and spread throughout the world as an easy, quick and aesthetically pleasing way to move the eyesight around an obstacle that does not belong in the surroundings. Bamboo will bend in the wind, but when ... http://www.water2garden.org/rolled-bamboo-fencing/ What better way to enchant the water garden, than with a frog figurine, visually embarking the audience on a timeless tale of fairy princesses, wicked witches and that young handsome prince transformed into a frog? When we think about the space in our water garden, we know that we are treading ... http://www.water2garden.org/frog-figurine/ The Natural Water Garden is a comprehensive and fresh how-to approach for constructing water features and the integrating them further into your landscape. A book that comes with sustainable trends, a stormwater marsh created in Virginia is an excellent example of how to make the best use of a landscape to ... http://www.water2garden.org/the-natural-water-garden/ The Earth Ponds Source Book: The Pond Owners Manual and Resource Guide for pond building and maintenance by the owner comes with advice/tips, up-to-date help-lists, commercial suppliers and some smaller projects as part of the bigger package. Ecology goes a long way here, from legal issues, structural, pitfalls and information that ... http://www.water2garden.org/the-earth-ponds-source-book/ Indoor Water Garden, the water garden handbook, is an introduction to understanding small pools, fountains, spouts, aquatic plants and even small fish that can be placed in an indoor setting to produce a healthy, meditative environment that provides a special transcendental experience, only flowing water can recreate. The most sublime water ... http://www.water2garden.org/indoor-water-garden/ The Art of the Japanese Garden was written for those looking for basic insight in colored details on Japanese landscape design, art and culture that bring this oriental experience into a tangible western perspective. When we think of sophistication, nothing can be more straight forward than a stroll through a Japanese ... http://www.water2garden.org/the-art-of-the-japanese-garden/ Outdoor Water Features is the perfect DIY starter manual for those who enjoy getting their hands a little wet and the excitement that running water can bring to an outdoor garden. The serene experience that an outdoor space provides is proportional to the imagination used in forming the landscape to hold ... http://www.water2garden.org/outdoor-water-features/ Sunset Series Water Gardens has detailed instruction and encyclopedic knowledge on how to build your own water garden from basic designs to the choice of plants used. Create and maintain your own beautiful water garden, choose fish, install mechanics, lights, wiring, basic construction techniques, water features, water garden themes, stream, waterfall, ... http://www.water2garden.org/sunset-series-water-gardens/ Water Gardening In Containers: Small Ponds Indoors & Out combines the techniques of water gardening with container gardening to produce a modern how-to manual on this 5,000 year old Chinese technique that transcends both timeand space both metaphorically and philosophically. Pots, urns, tubs; any container that you can make water tight ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-gardening-in-containers/ The Ponders Bible by Gosta H. Lovegren is a small, easy read for those looking to take on their very first fishpond at home as an easy to do and cost effective water garden project requiring low maintenance. 49 illustrations, diagrams and photographs make this a useful reference manual; a quick ... http://www.water2garden.org/the-ponders-bible/ Complete Guide to Water Gardening from The American Horticultural Society offers a basic perspective into the wide range of possible water gardening techniques you can use to build your very own water garden at home with the average home improvement skills. If you have already taken on a home improvement project, ... http://www.water2garden.org/complete-guide-to-water-gardening/ Rock and Water Plants is a practical water gardening handbook that looks into the Zen-Buddhist art of gardening from the points of view of construction and planning; in areas such as rocky ponds, rocky pools, cascades, streams and wildlife pools. Rock and Water Plants has the advantage of colorful photographs and ... http://www.water2garden.org/rock-and-water-plants/ How to Build a Waterfall is a 105-minute video with 30 different chapters that take you through the process of building a pondless waterfall from scratch; perfect for the do-it-yourselfers from all walks of life. How to Build a Waterfall has the most basic critical steps including location selection, visualization, and ... http://www.water2garden.org/how-to-build-a-waterfall/ The Water Garden Specialist is an 80 page paperback published by New Holland in March of 2006, written by Alan and Gill Bridgewater; do-it-yourself professionals. Detailing the essentials for designing, planting, improving, maintaining and building your own water garden with inspiration, The Water Garden Specialist measures 9.2 x 7 x 0.3 ... http://www.water2garden.org/the-water-garden-specialist/ The Master Book of the Water Garden written by Phillip Swindells is a practical design and maintenance guide with over 150 plant profiles, full color photography and illustrations that are both useful and inspirational for both novice and experienced water gardeners alike. Described as the perfect coffee table book, with the ... http://www.water2garden.org/the-master-book-of-the-water-garden/ This small water garden kit has all the items to build your own 165-gallon water garden feature, including fountain, power cord, liner and a handbook that explains all the details so you can do it yourself. What better way to attract wildlife and clean thoughts to your home than a water ... http://www.water2garden.org/small-water-garden-kit/ Mag 12 pump is all about sustainability for the pond owner, doing twice the work at half the energy consumption. Taking care of our water gardens is something we do with passion, but the world is going through one of its most difficult moments at present and energy bills are skyrocketing ... http://www.water2garden.org/mag-12-pump/ Little Giant Water Pump is a submersible pump, made to take up as little space as possible, but shoot out a maximum amount of work; ideal for small ponds. Water features in your pond might need just an extra punch; this 1/125 horsepower motor with 15 power cord pumps out 170 ... http://www.water2garden.org/little-giant-water-pump/ This Butterfly Gardens Pond Kit by Sunterra is the perfect item for the novice, looking to do-it-themselves with all the basic supplies and equipment for your very first watergarden, all in one simple setup. Butterfly Gardens Pond Kit comes with CD, booklet and instructions, that take you step by step through ... http://www.water2garden.org/butterfly-gardens-pond-kit/ Water Features for small gardens is the perfect book for beginners looking to do it themselves with whats available and within any modest budget. From concept to construction, Keith Davitt makes small water gardens something they should have always been, easy access to everyone interested. This book takes a serious look at ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-features-for-small-gardens/ Koi Appreciation is a beginners guide to understanding the fascinating world of koi, with 250 colored photos and basic information on the thirteen different varieties of koi. Kate McGilly, the books author, is a leading koi judge and explains what to look for in color blending, form and quality among these ... http://www.water2garden.org/koi-appreciation-book/ Encyclopedia of Water Garden Plants is a comprehensive guide with elegant photos to the most common types of water garden plants used, giving anyone starting out a seven-year head start. Hundreds of water garden plants, all perfectly organized by those areas that are most important to the most common varieties of ... http://www.water2garden.org/encyclopedia-of-water-garden-plants/ This arched six-posted, 5 foot wooden bridge is the perfect addition to any home garden for its beauty as well as the representational meanings in traditional oriental gardens. In traditional Chinese alchemy, wood is considered one of the sacred five elements. Associated with the east, the planet Jupiter, strength, flexibility (like bamboo), ... http://www.water2garden.org/wooden-bridge/ Splash Dance Fountains were designed to provide professional water displays privately, right in the comfort of your own water garden. Lights and fountain blasts in different preprogrammed selections and music that can beat in rhythm with each other to create splendid water displays. Splash Dance can be found in two different fountain ... http://www.water2garden.org/splash-dance-fountains/ Water garden slime is more commonly referred to as green water algae and is nothing more than the very natural oxygenating organism called cyanobacteria. Blue-green algae or brown or black, are all forms of cyanobacteria or what both the uninformed and common Joe alike, refer to as slime or smear algae. Cyanobacteria ... http://www.water2garden.org/cyanobacteria/ Your Basic Water Garden DVD is a step by step 22 minute long introduction on how to build your very own custom designed water garden. This Water Garden DVD comes with all the basics for building a custom-designed water garden right in the comfort of your own backyard. Every little detail from ... http://www.water2garden.org/your-basic-water-garden-dvd/ Calming Water Garden Fountain was developed to be aesthetically pleasing both indoors as well as outdoors. Made of stainless steel reflecting globe on a slate pillar, Calming Water Garden Fountain runs off of 110 volts of electricity for optional use indoors. Calming Water Garden Fountain is made from 310 stainless steel, comes ... http://www.water2garden.org/calming-water-garden-fountain/ Looking for a How to build a water garden video? How To Build Your Own Water Garden directed by Little Giant, brings both entertainment and information into one useful 20 minuteVHS tape. How To Build Your Own Water Garden takes the viewer step by step through the creation process that ... http://www.water2garden.org/how-to-build-your-own-water-garden-video/ Floating Pond De-Icer by Allied Precision Industries is an excellent alternative to keep a pond alive during the harshest blizzards of winter cold, sleet, hail, snow and rain. Floating Pond De-Icer is not merely a water heater, rather the contrary is true, as it was never intended to keep the water ... http://www.water2garden.org/floating-pond-de-icer/ A Pondmaster Utility Pump could be just the thing for getting the watergarden ready for this coming winter. Pondmaster Utility Pump come in all sizes and contain epoxy instead of oil to prevent leakage into the pond, keeping fish and plants safe from pollution. With a centrifugal pump designed to take on ... http://www.water2garden.org/pondmaster-utility-pump/ Building your own dragonfly water garden can be easy and fun. A dragonfly watergarden can be any size from as small as a backyard garden with a barrel for the pond to as large as a 20 foot diameter pond in the middle of the Big Apple. Food, water, shelter ... http://www.water2garden.org/dragonfly-water-garden/ Pond Shield is a safe and efficient alternative to a conventional pond liner. An easily applicable non-toxic epoxy liner system that can be sprayed or painted on, as needed, Pond Shield is an excellent investment for a healthy pond environment. Pond Shield was designed specifically for the pond industry and ... http://www.water2garden.org/pond-shield/ For ponds up to 700 gallons, Savio Compact Skimmerfilter is an excellent surface skimmer and filtration system, blending four different products for cleaner water. Savio Compact Skimmerfilter will even perform well in ponds up to a maximum of 2,500 gallons. Any size however above 700 gallons reduces its overall performance to that ... http://www.water2garden.org/savio-compact-skimmerfilter/ Pondmaster Submersible Filters are designed for any kind of water garden or pond that you might have to be easily buried and well concealed while still leaving the water crystal clear. As a focused product with an eye on perfection, these submersible filtration systems are a three in one package, with ... http://www.water2garden.org/pondmaster-submersible-filters/ Atlantic Filterfalls are waterfall biofilters that aerate and filter water, leaving it healthy and crystal clear. Atlantic Filterfalls use a pump to push water through, up and out into a swirling waterfall action that not merely pumps but aerates as well. A pond skimmer is recommended as a previous stage to these ... http://www.water2garden.org/atlantic-filterfalls/ Pondmaster pressurized filters are both biological filters as well as Ultra-Violet filters, designed to eliminate green water once and for all, and conserve as much waste water as possible. The biological media surrounds a special agitation mechanism that is manually rotated back and forth in an agitating motion while expulsing unwanted ... http://www.water2garden.org/pondmaster-pressurized-filters/ Tetra Pressure Filters are the perfect thing for those looking to take care of very sensitive fish through optimal mechanical and biological filtration in water garden ponds. Tetra Pressure Filters come in three sizes: Tetra PRF 1500 - For a maximum pond size of 1500 gallon, has a maximun flow rate of ... http://www.water2garden.org/tetra-pressure-filters/ Savio Skimmerfilter is an advanced pond filtration system designed by Savio Engineering, and is a unique product with superior equipment, materials and precision manufacturing. With low energy consumption the Savio Skimmerfilter integrates four processes. Skimming action Macro filtration UV filtration Biofiltration With a pump system integrated into the filter itself, it sits at the water surface, ... http://www.water2garden.org/savio-skimmerfilter/ Fishmate Filters made by Pet Mate Ltd in London, England are distributed to more than 30 countries around the world including North America. Fishmate Filters in the USA are distributed by Ani Mate Inc. in Houston, Texas and offer one of the most complete ranges of pond filters for up to ... http://www.water2garden.org/fishmate-filters/ Grand Champion Technologies Aquabead biological bead filters are custom built to suit exactly the needs of your pond. Aquabead custom builds bead filters for common uses in the common pond sizes such as medium to large and large to professional, at prices that are competitive among professional koi keepers. Aquabead is focused ... http://www.water2garden.org/aquabead-biotek-filters/ Depending on the size of your pond or water garden and how much money you are looking to spend on a filter, biological bead filters made by Aquaculture Technologies, might just be the thing, but how do you choose which size is for you? First of all, how many gallons ... http://www.water2garden.org/aquaculture-bead-filters/ Firestone pond liners are EPDM geomembranes made from Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomers, a single ply rubber roofing membrane which is also ideal as water garden liners. What makes Firestone EPDM pond liners so strong? Liner Flexibility: Firestone liners remain highly flexible even at very low temperatures (down to –45 °C). Liner Elongation: Firestone ... http://www.water2garden.org/firestone-pond-liners/ What is a Water Garden? The concept of a garden based around an artificial pond of water is as ancient as the first dreams of paradise on earth. Gardening in and of itself is the art of growing plants and the crafting of a beautiful environment, inspired by nature. ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-gardens/ Fall Water Gardens – Preparation and Reflection For those who have water gardens or would like to build and care for a backyard pond Fall is a time to reflect. Autumn is also a great time for cleanup, preparation and new construction. Cleaning up your water garden in preparation for Fall ... http://www.water2garden.org/fall-water-gardens/ Below are some great water garden pictures taken by folks and shared thru Flickr. The pictures will not always be of water gardens because you could take an image of a moose and name it "water garden" and it would still show up in the category for "water gardens". ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-pictures/ Water Garden Features - Step #2 To start to think about water garden features you must first have an idea of what type of water garden you would like to create. There are basically three main types of water garden design features: 1. Raised Ponds – The raised pond is a good ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-features/ Water Garden Plan - Step #1 A water garden plan and its final construction, always come from ideas that "only you", can think of. To begin planning your water garden you need to go to the area where it will be and stand with a clipboard, paper and pencil in hand. ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-plan/ What is a Japanese Water Garden? The Japanese Water Garden can be divided in three main time periods. In the Heian period (785-1184), the book Sakuteiki was written as a guide to future Japanese Buddhist water gardeners, describing the ideal paradise on earth. After the Heian period, the simplicity ... http://www.water2garden.org/japanese-water-garden/ What is a Water Garden Waterfall? A water garden waterfall can be the focus point in most water gardens is the continuous flow of running water. The sound of soothing and peaceful falling water brings visions of long lost worlds such as Shangri-la to the mind's eye. Utopian communities ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-waterfall/ What is a Water Garden Pump? A water garden pump that pushes waterfall or fountain water for oxygenation or just plain looks, needs to have constant water flow above the surface of the water. For this reason a properly chosen water garden pump needs to be chosen to send water ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-pump/ What is an Outdoor Water Fountain? The gardens aesthetic appeal can be enhanced with a stand alone outdoor water fountain. The form of the water fountain is as infinite as the human imagination, from a central overriding obelisk like stone, to a delicate fairy statue of tinker-bell beauty. Usually ... http://www.water2garden.org/outdoor-water-fountain/ What is Water Garden Design? Water garden design can be an expression of thought or emotion, it can be a fulfilling mental endeavor or hobby for those long country summers, when the heart comes back into balance with nature. A water garden can even be a sublime spiritual retreat in ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-design/ What is a water garden container? A water gardening container is almost anything that holds water and is non-toxic. The idea is not only aesthetics, but practicality. The water garden container needs to be of suitable size and shape for the gardeners needs. The outer appearance of the ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-container/ What is a Water Garden Filter? A water garden filter is used to help keep the garden in a kind of balance. Depending on the kind of water gardening being done, the desired effect to be achieved and personal preference, choosing the right water filter can be challenging. Filtering ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-filter/ What is a Water Garden Plant? Any aquatic plant that can be used in a water garden (note; usually fresh water) is a "water garden plant", as well as any plant that may go around the water garden. Water plants need nutrients, sunlight and carbon dioxide (CO2) to survive and ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-plants/ What is a Water Garden Pond? A water garden pond is one of the most common bases for building a water garden in any relatively larger scale, than a tub. Building a water garden in a pond is an excellent way to give a "closer to the wild in nature" ... http://www.water2garden.org/water-garden-pond/