All water features and water gardens have some element of maintenance. The amount of maintenance depends on how you prefer your pond or water garden to look and what kind of nutrient load it has to handle. Nutrient loading comes from within the pond in the form of fish waste, [...]
Duckweed (Lemna minor) is one of nature's smallest flowering plants. Duckweed has tiny bright green disks and thrives in full sun to partial shade. Duckweed is a source of food for fish and as the name implies waterfowl. The small plant floats on the water's surface and is hardy to [...]
Nearly every commercial and residential development has at least one stormwater management or retention pond. Stormwater management ponds are designed to collect, store and purify water as it runs through the landscape from rainwater, snow melt or human water use. Properly maintained stormwater management ponds are beautiful additions to the [...]
Water plants provide numerous benefits to a backyard pond water garden. Water plants or aquatic plants take nutrients out of the water and put oxygen back into the water. Water plants also soften a pond's edge. The graceful transition from land to water also serves as erosion control along [...]
Pink, night blooming tropical water lily Aquatic plants, also known as water plants, bog plants or macrophytes are a diverse group in aquatic systems. They include floating species that grow on the surface of the water without rooting to the substrate. There are emergent species of aquatic plants [...]
