Post pics of your pond installs!

[syzer]

I would like to se some of the ponds you guys have put in, if anyone has some pics postem up here for everyone to see. I did one down my parents house about 3 years ago when i was 18 or so. Alot of ppl like it but I dont =) ready to rip it out and build a nice big one else where on the property. I will take pics and post later.

[John from OH]

Here's few pictures from a small project we did last spring. The clients just can say enough good about their pond. They had looked at many other ponds and mentioned to me that they would like a water garden, but had not found anything that sounded easy to care for and that would integrate with the landscaping. I talked to them about Aquascapes and they were sold. I'll be over at this property in a couple of weeks and get some updated pictures now that the plantings have started to fill out.

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=115367&a=4654179&f=0

This is the first water garden we installed. Its about 2 years old in the pictures. These were taken the day we pulled the pump for winter. This project has 3 ponds, 8x8, 10'12, and 15x20, 5 falls, and 2 streams. The homeowners put this pond in for their daughters wedding. We did minimal landscaping as the homeowner likes to garden with perennials, and this is her baby. I'll have to scan the before and during pics and the finished pictures before the wedding. This homeowner has 3 black labs, and the ponds are their playground. I was apprehensive about the dogs damaging the liner, but after 3 years, no problems.

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=115367&a=1320283&f=0

[Davis TLC]

Here is a pic of the one we put in our backyard out by the pool last year. It is a preformed shell but for our first one I think we done pretty good not knowing anything about putting one in. We will do much better next time.

[swn]

John - Wow! That is awesome! Both of those are great, those are some lucky dogs to have a playground like that.
Rich - Yours looks great too! I think you had a picture of your lawn over on the lawn care site. You really have a nice place.

[Davis TLC]

Thanks Steve, we are looking to see where we can put a bigger one at in the yard. I'd like to do one with a stream and waterfall in it. We have an area in the back yard that would be perfect for this, just a couple of years down the road. I think I will do some for some of my customers, I have one that says she would like one in her yard.

[syzer]

Awesome ponds guys lets see some more!

[powerreel]

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1472735&a=12261210&p=50131230

[dan deutekom]

NOW THAT'S A NICE POND!:D

[powerreel]

Anyone else?
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1472735&a=13468860&p=52030640

Does wetlands management count?

[JimLewis]

This is our first water feature, and only so far. I don't push them too much but we will be in the future. Been taking a lot of classes on pond builing lately. I definitely would have done this one a lot different knowing what I know now but it wasn't bad for a first try. Good thing it was at my best friend's house. :-)

Unfortunately the water wasn't running when we took the picture so you can't see the water fall or the bubbler rock [in the lower left corner] flowing.

http://www.lewislandscape.com/gallery/water-feature.jpg

[t]

HI GUYS, IM NEW HERE. I JUST STARTED MY OWN LANDSCAPE BUSINESS. I HAVE ENJOYED LOOKING AT ALL YOUR BEAUTIFUL PONDS. GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. I DUG MY SELF A POND THIS YEAR I USED A LINER MATERIAL THAT I BOUGHT AT FARM EQIP. COMP. IM NOT SURE HOW MUCH WATER IS IN IT, I DONT KNOW HOW TO MEASURE THAT. ITS ABOUT 10 FEET BY 3 FEET. I MADE SURE THAT SOME OF THE DEPTH WAS 18-24 DEEP. I BOUGHT A SMALL FISH AQUIR. PUMP AND IT WORKS FINE I CLEAN THE PUMP EVERY WEEK ,I BOUGHT A LARGER ONE SO I COULD HAVE FOUNT. BUT IT KEPT CLOGGING UP ,I HAVE FISH AND PLANTS WHAT DO I DO NEXT WHAT ABOUT WINTER I DO PUT IN ALGAE BLOCKER

[G.Williams]

Here is the before and after of our latest pond install 16'x21'. We took the before picture after all the debris was removed.
:blob3: :blob4:

[jdwilliams1]

Our customers just wanted the noise, nothing big just the sound of water, dropped in a few lilies. We will finish planting around the pond this year.

[williamslawn]

It is snowing here!

[Comet]

Not sure if this will be viewable,, I hope it is.
Heres one I (refurbished) during the summer along with another rear one he had.
This one was an aqua-scape 8*11 having a four foot stream and waterfalls.
I replaced/added the hudson bay stone 1-3", planted 80 new plantining materials, re-mulch, replaced the lighting, made friends with the koi, added some water plants, replaced filter mats,etc...etc..

Today as of 1/23/02, eight months later its in aweful condition due to no maintenance whats so ever.
Last time I seen it, it was buried in leaves, the skimmer was clogged,the pump was clogged,the waterfalls was a mere dribble, water level decreased and the fish where almost screaming for help.
To me the HO even though he was wealthy and could have afforded the proper maintenance just doesnt deserve to have such a luxury on his front lawn, its a pity.
Made me realize and goes to show! Proper maintenance is a necessity on any pond. The HO unless active outdoory people just cant do it,,same as with having a swimming pool. Funny though, this HO paid each week to have his pool serviced for $50.00/wk.
http://lawnsite.com/images/Waterfalls_5c

[Comet]

[Groundcover Solutions]

you could go ice skating!!! LOL

[Alan Bechard]

Check out me Wifes website @


www.awomanstouch.net

[Fishwhiz]

Here's one of our ponds...

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[Kingspointe]

beautiful ponds!!:D

[Comet]

Been having problems posting this for the longest time with the codes; :confused:

This link I hope will allow access to view my 1st aquascape pond installation` April 2002
My appologies if it doesnt show up again :eek:

http://www.aquascapedesigns.com/fun/photocontest/display.php?fullsize=1&id=17

[Swack]

I saw your pictures on lawnsite.com.. nice ponds! One in particular looks like a project I may soon take on, and had a few ?'s for you. HO wants to put a 20x15 'mound' in the backyard, with a pond in the center. The thoughts are that the mound will peak @ 12" around the pond, and slant slowly down from there.. wants to dig 12" below in some areas, and use a fles liner. so that sone aereas are as much as 2', others @ 9-12".

I'll need to dig and then dump new soil, and shape the area..

My question is, it lookes like you have an elevated pond there... did it work well? Did you have to really pack the new soil before adding the liner and water.. and if so, how much luck did you have?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[WeatherMan]

Here's Mine

[WeatherMan]

another

[WeatherMan]

close up of waterfall

[WeatherMan]

walkway to pond

[Critical Care]

I put this one in behind my house. It uses a 3000 gph Little Giant, has a bottom drain and skimmer box, as well as a biofilter that I made from a 50 gallon barrel and have installed behind the waterfall berm. It's a koi pond and always crystal clear. I made a deck extension to wrap around one side of the pond. All stones are natural lava with moss from this area. Koi are tame and you can sit on the side of the deck and feed them by hand.

[Critical Care]

Another look from behind the pond.

[Critical Care]

This is the biofilter. Water filter up through cinder rock and layers of filter media before coming out to the waterfall. I generally never clean it except for winterization. Oh... and this was my first install. Cheap camera gives poor pics.

[Critical Care]

Forgot to mention that I installed a small bog garden off of the base of the waterfall. Not sure how much filtering it does but it's a nice place for marginal plants. By the way, be careful if you use lava rock because it can be porous and if you don't take this into account you could lose all of your water! I've seen it.

[rookiemower]

another LCO did this before i got involved in the biz when they dug the power company missed marking a line and they hit the main for there house :dizzy: but i thought this guy did a excellent job

[rookiemower]

critical care the one you built is beautiful ,exceptional job:drinkup: the other are also good to:cool2:

[zedosix]

here is an aerial shot of our ponds that my wife took this spring. The round one is ours and the long one with an over flow in the middle. The round one is 150' x 150'. All lakes are spring fed and have been stocked with trout which have thrived since 1991. Currently they are covered with 6" of ice.:p

zed

[Critical Care]

Zed... I don't think your ponds were hand dug. Oh, I was wondering about your round pond with dimensions of 150' x 150'. Perhaps it's 150' diameter?

[zedosix]

Originally posted by Critical Care
Zed... I don't think your ponds were hand dug. Oh, I was wondering about your round pond with dimensions of 150' x 150'. Perhaps it's 150' diameter?

I didn't think syzer specified hand dug or machine dug. What he said is post pics of your pond installs. So what the heck thats what I did.

Maybe I should of been more specific on the 150' round pond. It has a diameter of 150'. Or just to clarify things, 471 feet in circumference. Happy now:D

zed

[WeatherMan]

LOL Nice set up I love it

[DUSTYCEDAR]

then and now

[Critical Care]

Very pretty, Dustycedar! This winter I've shut everything down on my pond and moved the koi and fragile plants indoors. Now I have a mountain of snow covering what frozen water is left in the pond.

[DUSTYCEDAR]

i have 2 many fish 2 move them in some koi over 2 ft
and last night the pump came apart with the freeze so at 11pm i was replumbing the dam thing back together in 14 degree weather:D

[Pond_Guy_NJ]

Here are a couple of the fish in my pond. I was fertilizing the lilies when they same over. See the black koi?

[Pond_Guy_NJ]

Here are the fish I hope

[Pond_Guy_NJ]

Here is another shot of my Texas Dawn.

[Kohls Landscaping Co]

this is the first pond that i installed...

[Trim Creations]

can anyone tell me how to post a pic

[Lawn Concepts]

Here are two jops we did in 2004. We also did the flagstone patio on the smaller one.
http://www.lawnsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31248&stc=1

[Lawn Concepts]

3 more pics to go along

http://www.lawnsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31249

http://www.lawnsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31250

http://www.lawnsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31251&stc=1

[TurfGuyTX]

Nice pics!! Keep up the good work.

[Critical Care]

Real nice, Lawn Concepts. Being fairly close to the deck may pose a problem which I've had with my koi pond. When the deck needs refurbishing, such as stripping and staining, it can become a bit tough trying to keep chemicals and runoff from entering into the pond. Some chemicals could kill the pond and fish. Nevertheless, having the pond off of a deck is real enjoyable.

It's too bad that the swimming pool framework in the background stands out like a sore thumb. Hopefully some plants will cover that up.

[LiquidLand]

Her mind was made up...so, here it is!!!!

[jreiff]

Anyone have any pictures of a raised pond?

[Bonzai]

One of ours.

[Bonzai]

Another one

[Bonzai]

Another one, a big pond

[Bonzai]

Before and after Pondless into an old pool.

[Bonzai]

Heres the after shot, bit of a rock pile but when it gets planted up it should look nice. Customer loved it :)

[Stone Crafter]

Some photos of small front yard pond job.

[Stone Crafter]

A few other more detailed shots. Same job.

[Stone Crafter]

Two more nice photos. Click on to view.

[Stone Crafter]

Last one I have for this job.

[sheshovel]

Tim Creations-go below post box and click on Go Advanced-put in what you want to say then click-Manage attachments,then in the blu box hit browse-find your file with the pic,click select then in blue box click upload one time -wait and it will tell you whan its done then click post reply.

[kb&a]

here is my first pond i would appreciate any and all comments the size is about 16' x 20' by about three feet deep.these pictures are from the construction and winter i will post another once the weather is warm and plants and fish are growing again.

[Fishwhiz]

We love using our native plants even on small ponds like this one. Northwest US: Indian paintbrush, silverweed, Tiling's monkeyflower, native forget-me-not (M. laxa) and Lewis' monkeyflower.

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[Critical Care]

Wow, some very nice watery creations!

LiquidLand, you’re lucky that you can have that lush tropical foliage during Xmas time! And kb&a we’re not quite that lucky, but one look at northerner Bonzai’s work and it shows that you always don’t need the tropical effect for great looking ponds. Wait till the snow melts kb&a, put in those plants, and then show us what it looks like.

Bonzai, you got some good pics. Was it your idea for going over (through) the retaining wall and using the old pool area, or was it your clients idea? Neat idea for an eyesore area. Your right, a bit more vegetation, and some around it would naturalize it a bit. Only item I’m somewhat against is the flat and probably artificial stone covering the skimmer box, seen in the second pic of the pond by the deck. It stands out like a sore thumb because of your extensive use of river rock around it. Cute little out building in your first pic, and great pond. In time the lawn grass will creep into the pond area – bummer – but hopefully someone well keep after it... Without a border (yet) on one side of my own pond I have this same problem.

It looks like you have some detailed work, Stone Crafter - very aesthetically pleasing and relaxing.

Oh… hello Oregonian Fishwhiz. I’m wondering if you’ll be at the Farwest Show Aug 24-26?

[landscapingpoolguy]

http://www.perfectpropertyservices.com/Waterfalls.html

[fishcube]

bonzai. Love the pic of large pond. What size was it? gallons, LxWxH? filter size?

We are thinking of building a koi pond in the back of our home (Iowa). We have a natural grade and low area that we would like to place one.

Any recommendations..websites with info?

We plan on building it ourselves.

Pics of the back yard. http://www.pbase.com/fishcube/image/8391596.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/fishcube/image/28236579.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/fishcube/image/28214077.jpg
in the pic above, we are thinking of placing pond between the weeping willow and deck/basement area... the tree in pic is much larger now, its been 2 years since we planted it. We think it will look great with the pond.

http://www.pbase.com/fishcube/image/31668801.jpg
this pic shows what it looks like when we have major rain...and the run-off. Our property line is about 20 feet behind the willow. Where you see the water runoff (brown area behind willow). http://www.pbase.com/fishcube/image/31668804.jpg Most of the water runnoff goes to the back where you see it behind the willow tree. The part in the yard is when we have extreme rain which is about once a year at most and that is just excess rain that the ground wouldn't absorb fast enough. None of the neighbors water run off from their yards will drain into the area where we want the pond. Just what comes from our drains from house/yard, and even then most of it goes the the area behind the tree.

http://www.pbase.com/fishcube/image/31668805.jpg
this pic shows what that area looks like from deck.

So, any suggestions?

We live on the edge of a small town with farmland on 3 sides.

any info would be helpful. thx
SK

[fishcube]

The area we want to place the pond is between the willow and the deck/back of house. Since the lowest area right near the tree and right in front sometimes gets excess water. We are thinking of moving the pond up a little further and closer to the back of house, but not too close, since we want to build an addition onto deck and bring it out further.

[Critical Care]

Fishcube, it looks like you’ve picked out the perfect spot for a pond, however that all depends upon a few things. First of all, it appears as if that area basically slopes down and away from the house. Generally you want to see the waterfall from your house, or from the deck, and so this would mean that you would have to build up the far side of the pond for the waterfall, and cut in a bit on the near side. Another possibility, and probably better, would be to put the waterfall off to the right side in the picture – on the slope to the right of your patio door. You could connect the waterfall to the pond with a nice stream. Can you see that area from your deck?

Since this pond would be in a swale, you may want to carefully plan on avoiding a possible problem of water running down and beneath the pond liner. Also think about having an overflow – probably one coming off of a skimmer box. You could easily make this overflow to go into a drain rock filled trench extending down towards the back of your property. Lay landscape fabric over it, and sod on top of that.

[mdvaden]

Since I already posted a full install elsewhere, I'm putting this one up for fun. I worked on this lately. It's a renovation.

On the edge of the pond which is closest in the photo, there was a fake 6' wide fiberglass boulder balancing on the edge.

I removed about 2 tons of rock, especially from the edges. All the plants surrounding the pond: that was rock area which was removed.

By picking up the liner on the left, the water level increased 4" and made the pond wider.

The big rock outcrop in back is real. The lady hoped to drill and use it, thinking it was a boulder. Since it's an outcrop that gets even wider underground, we just incorporated it by adding the water-spill in front of it. When told it was a huge boulder, I had planned on planting around the water spill. But, I found out that there is zero soil there. The rock just submerges into the ground and flares out toward the pond.

This was a fairly fun project that improved almost more by removing the 3 other different kinds of rock. The planting didn't hurt.

This is paving the way for a new install of a 120' creek bed just to the right - 1/2 running water and 1/2 dry.

[Critical Care]

Looks nice, Mario. That large rock aka outcropping in back makes a big difference. Imagine that water feature without it and it would be lacking.

I have a natural partially exposed ridge of lava about thirty feet behind my house and have often thought about using it to tie a large scale waterfall into my existing pond that’s along my deck. Problem would be going around a horseshoe pit and under a gravel road, but I feel as if a bridge on the road would make a “fake” stream actually appear more real. And since I wouldn’t want to run this waterfall all the time ($$$), I would probably keep it physically isolated from the existing pond, but in appearance make it look all part of it.

Your ½ dry and ½ running water creek bed makes me think of disappearing streams, and how they resurface here and there. Hmmm… That would be different.

[fishcube]

Yes, we had just talked about possibly putting waterfall right outside the bowfront window in sunroom (see pics). The waterfall would come down the hill and into a pond. You can see the whole area seen in the pics from the deck. I guess the next thing is figuring out how big around and how close to waterfall do we want the pond etc. We'd prefer to not have to build up any sides of the pond. I was also thinking of possibly putting a small pond right outside bowfront window and then waterfall from there on down to large pond ??
I'll post pics of the exact area in the next couple weeks.

[Joey bag a' donuts]

http://morningtidelawn.com/images/beforeafter.jpg

[jd-dave]

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/lOstboy10889/Picture002-1.jpg
my little pond

[BSDeality]

Dave, you need to try to mask some of that liner with some stacked rocks inside the pond.

[me1223]

Here is my second pond, the first pond I took out after the first year because it was too small, (~500gal.). So this is the pond now, measures 13' in the front, 11' in the back, 16' long and between 18" and 24" along the bottom, deepest in the front. There is one shelf for a "water garden" on the back left, but it's overgrown quite a bit. This has been in place for two years now.

This is the front half of the pond, I'll see about getting some better pictures on here later. Excuse the hoses the one is unburried because I was redoing the waterfall, the one in the front is just topping it up.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f155/me1223/image032.jpg

This is the water fall that is at the back left, but I have re-arranged it since this picture was taken so it looks better now. The pump and filter are too small for this pond (600gph), but hasn't been replaced yet.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f155/me1223/image047.jpg

A water lilly
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f155/me1223/image041.jpg

This is in an area where it will freeze from top to bottom in the winter, however the fish (guppies) are left in year round, started with 12 two years ago, now I've got hundreds.

What do ya'll think?*newcanadaflag*

[me1223]

Here are two more I found:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f155/me1223/image030.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f155/me1223/image029.jpg

[jd-dave]

thats pretty good looking pond even tho it is quit green do you know about when the lilys will blume?
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a374/lOstboy10889/102_36861.jpg
heres one of mine I might end up making it bigger idk but I cant find any bigger liners that the one I have which is an 8' x 10' liner

[me1223]

well they started about two weeks ago, and haven't stopped since, at the moment I've got about four blooms on the one plant. As far as when in the day they are open, I find that they are normally open at 10am and start to close and sink down for the night around 2pm.

[jd-dave]

ok so like I can never find any good water plants. I have one lilly pad plant "its pittifull" and I have 2 of thoes grass looking plants and some other plant in there. but they come in flower pot like regular plants. are you soposed to take them out or leave them in the pots

[Critical Care]

Dave, you can leave the plants in their pots. Sometimes you can get pond plants in different containers, such as square mesh baskets. Most water lilies prefer ample sunlight, but so does algae. Water lilies aren’t too fond of running water, but running water helps aerate the pond. Sometimes you just have to compromise. Get some aquatic plant fertilizer tablets… Pond plants like food too.

[lawnspecialties]

Here is my second pond, the first pond I took out after the first year because it was too small, (~500gal.). So this is the pond now, measures 13' in the front, 11' in the back, 16' long and between 18" and 24" along the bottom, deepest in the front. There is one shelf for a "water garden" on the back left, but it's overgrown quite a bit. This has been in place for two years now.

This is the front half of the pond, I'll see about getting some better pictures on here later. Excuse the hoses the one is unburried because I was redoing the waterfall, the one in the front is just topping it up.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f155/me1223/image032.jpg

This is the water fall that is at the back left, but I have re-arranged it since this picture was taken so it looks better now. The pump and filter are too small for this pond (600gph), but hasn't been replaced yet.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f155/me1223/image047.jpg

A water lilly
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f155/me1223/image041.jpg

This is in an area where it will freeze from top to bottom in the winter, however the fish (guppies) are left in year round, started with 12 two years ago, now I've got hundreds.

What do ya'll think?*newcanadaflag*

Somebody help me out here. "Guppies" will live outside (especially in Canada) through the winter?

[LindblomRJ]

Guppies tend like the water warmer than goldfish or Koi. Being guppies are live bearers and tend to multiply like rabbits I wouldn't want them in my pond. I don't even have them in either of my aquariums.

My chichlids might like them though.

[kcook]

This project was done on an edge of a hill that runs off into a 1/4 acer pond. The 1/4 acer pond serves as an overflow for a larger pond across the driveway. The water had to be pumped 60 feet to the top of the first fall and then gravity did the rest. I attached a file,I hope it works. If anyone has any suggestions on a good place to save pictures online so I can link them to the thread let me know.

What is not seen is the pictures is around the first bend of the pond there are bigger bolders with native grasses, and the next phase is aquatic plants.

[dtm]

check out our web site[URL="http://www.aquascapes.com"] for pictures of completed pond projects
e-mail me if i can answer any questions you guys may have.

[MarkoB]

One of ours.

Nice nice nice job:cool2:

[cpaum]

Hello to all lawn site members!

It's so nice to be out playing in the dirt again. Spring is here and summer is on it's way.


When digging these smaller ponds you might want to check out a product called the Quick Spade. It makes life a whole lot easier.

There is also a web site the weeders digest that sells a lot of pond products. This company really help me in my customer base. Not only do I build the ponds now. But I now can offer a program of products that will help keep there pond looking good.

Just thought I would fill you guys in!! Huge suggest for me.

[J. Peterson Grading]

I did this one last summer. I try to do 1 large install per year. Usually in August when things slow down for us.

Anyway

Water fall, 2 pools, and a river. All using Anamosa Rip Rap and flag stone.

J.

[genesgreen]

Bonzai - I dream of having ones like that in my back yard. Wow that's some beautiful work. Good job.