Building Natural Ponds: Create a Clean, Algae-free Pond without Pumps, Filters, or Chemicals

Building Natural Ponds: Create a Clean, Algae-free Pond without Pumps, Filters, or Chemicals

<div><b>Build a natural pond for wildlife, beauty, and quiet contemplation</b><br />Typical backyard ponds are a complicated mess of pipes, pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals designed to adjust pH and keep algae at bay. Hardly the bucolic, natural ecosystem beloved by dragonflies, frogs, and songbirds.<br />The antidote is a natural pond, free of hassle, cost, and complexity and designed as a fully functional ecosystem, ideal for biodiversity, swimming, irrigation, and quiet contemplation.<br /><i>Building Natural Ponds</i> is the first step-by-step guide to designing and building natural ponds that use no pumps, filters, chemicals, or electricity and mimic native ponds in both aesthetics and functionality. Highly illustrated with how-to drawings and photographs, coverage includes:<br /><br /><ul>* Understanding pond ecosystems and natural algae control<br />* Planning, design, siting, and pond aesthetics <br />* Step-by-step guidance for construction, plants and fish, and maintenance and trouble shooting<br />* Scaling up to large ponds, pools, bogs, and rain gardens.</ul><br />Whether you're a backyard gardener looking to add a small serene natural water feature or a homesteader with visions of a large pond for fish, swimming, and irrigation, <i>Building Natural Ponds</i> is the complete guide to building ponds in tune with nature, where plants, insects, and amphibians thrive in blissful serenity.<br /><br /><b>Robert Pavlis</b>, a Master Gardener with over 40 years of gardening experience, is owner and developer of Aspen Grove Gardens, a six-acre botanical garden featuring over 3,000 varieties of plants. A well-respected speaker and teacher, Robert is the author of <i>Garden Myths</i>, has published articles in <i>Mother Earth News</i>, <i>Ontario Gardening</i> magazine, the widely read blog GardenMyths.com, which explodes common gardening myths and gardening information site GardenFundamentals.com.</div>