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A garden pond, or a water garden as it is often called, adds enormous appeal to a garden. It can be large or small, simple or dramatic. It can include waterfalls, fountains, elaborate rockwork, and special lighting, or it can be serenely empty. It can be a natural pond with a flowing spring or a plastic tub.Choose your garden pond while considering the size of your property, the amount of maintenance you wish to do, your budget, and the style of your garden.Many homeowners make a garden pond using prefabricated parts from a garden center or home improvement store. Others are more free-form in their design.The container for your pond can be a commercial preformed tub designed for the purpose, a freeform hole dug and lined by the maker, or even an old bathtub! For a small pond, a capacity of about 20 gallons is a practical size. Water weighs about eight pounds per gallon, so if your pond is elevated, be sure the supports can hold that much weight. Black, charcoal, and dark green colors are good choices, since they give an impression of greater depth and discourage algae growth.Placing the pond is very important. As with a fountain, consider what location will give you the greatest pleasure. Remember that children and pets love standing water, so consider their safety as well. Placing the pond in an open area will reduce the time you spend clearing fallen leaves and other debris out of the water.Sunlight is very important. Most aquatic plants need six to eight hours of direct sunlight daily to grow well.If you want your aquatic plants to be healthy, filling the container with clean water is essential. Don't use water that has been altered by a water softener. City water is normally treated with chlorine and may contain other additives as well. Let the water sit in the tub for at least 24 hours before adding plants, so that the chlorine can evaporate. If your community uses chloramine, a more stable form of chlorine, you will need to use a commercial product to decontaminate the water.A water garden is a miniature ecosystem that must be in balance to remain healthy. Typically, it takes three or four weeks for a new garden pond to establish a healthy balance. About two weeks after it is set up, the water normally turns cloudy with algae. A week or so later, the aquatic plants will get the algae under control by absorbing sunlight and nutrients that contribute to algae growth. Then the water will clear. It will remain clear as long as the ecosystem is in balance.Plants grown in artificial garden ponds are rooted in individual pots, which are placed in the water-filled pond container. You can use a soil mixture specially made for water gardening or just a very heavy clay garden soil as a potting medium. Topping the pot with half an inch of pea gravel helps to keep the soil in place.Many aquatic plants have very specific preferences for the depth of water they prefer. You can put bricks beneath the pots to bring the plant to its preferred depth.A waterfall is a river or other body of water's steep fall over a rocky ledge into a plunge pool below. Waterfalls are also called cascades. The process of erosion, the wearing away of earth, plays an important part in the formation of waterfalls. Waterfalls themselves also contribute to erosion. Often, waterfalls form as streams flow from soft rock to hard rock. This happens both laterally (as a stream flows across the earth) and vertically (as the stream drops in a waterfall). In both cases, the soft rock erodes, leaving a hard ledge over which the stream falls. A fall line is the imaginary line along which parallel rivers plunge as they flow from uplands to lowlands. Many waterfalls in an area help geologists and hydrologists determine a region's fall line and underlying rock structure.
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- Title: Garden Ponds and Waterfalls: A garden pond, or a water garden as it is often called, adds enormous appeal to a garden.
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