Let's talk pond design

Before I was a pond builder, I was a gardener. As all of you gardeners know, a garden is never finished. I have heard that a garden takes 15 years to be complete after the original planting. If that is the case, it is true that our gardens are never complete.

We are always adding plants, rearranging plants, putting benches in or garden totems. As I was sitting in my garden many years ago, I thought that a waterfall would be great in the teardrop shape that my two walkways formed. Now that I had the idea, how was I going to build a pond there. With that realization came all the questions that I needed to answer before I could build a pond.

At that time, in 1987, there were no pond books or places to look at ponds. Oh, there were a few rectangular or round concrete ponds with fountains in parks or zoos, but nothing that a 48 year old woman could tackle and feel confident about doing.

I started to look around for materials, didn't find much and started experimenting. After months and months of failures, I had a working waterfall. Then I had to learn that under the pecan tree was not a good place to put the pond. As I started my pond building business, I learned so many other things. I am trying with these articles to share some of those things with you.