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

<p><b> Build a natural pond for wildlife, beauty, and quiet contemplation </b></p><p> 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. </p><p> 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. </p><p><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: </p><ul><li> Understanding pond ecosystems and natural algae control </li><li> Planning, design, siting, and pond aesthetics </li><li> Step-by-step guidance for construction, plants and fish, and maintenance and trouble shooting </li><li> Scaling up to large ponds, pools, bogs, and rain gardens. </li></ul><p> 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. </p><p><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 2,500 varieties of plants. A well-respected speaker and teacher, Robert 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. </p>