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The Aquascape Water Gardening blog is your resource for learning about the joy of water gardening. Here you’ll find ‘How to’ and tips for maintaining your pond or water garden, koi care, seasonal pond care, and much more.
Water Forget-Me-Not: A Charming Aquatic Beauty
Water Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis scorpoides) is a captivating aquatic plant that adds a touch of enchantment to ponds, streams, and wetlands. One of the most striking features of water forget-me-not is its petite,…
Floating Pond Plants: Nature’s Waterborne Wonders
Floating pond plants do just as their name indicates – they happily float on the surface of the pond. Their roots dangle beneath the plant, absorbing all their nutrients from the water.…
How to Interpret Fish Body Language: Is It Good or Bad?
Did you know that fish possess subtle body language just like humans do? If you familiarize yourself with good body language in fish, you’ll be equipped to recognize bad fish body language.…
Top 10 Aquatic Plants for Mini Ponds
Container water gardening is a rapidly-growing garden hobby and provides a whole new opportunity for an exciting group of plants. Not to mention, you can even add small fish to your aquatic…
The Lotus Flower: An Impressive Exclamation Point in the Water Garden
Known in the East as the Sacred Lotus, the lotus has a long, mystical history. It has been given several colorful names including Pink Lotus, Hindu Lotus, Sacred Water Lily, and more.…
Understanding the Pond Nitrogen Cycle: Why It’s Important to Your Fish
One of the most confusing and intimidating aspects of caring for pond fish care is the science of water quality and the pond nitrogen cycle. You may have heard horror stories about…
How to Keep Koi from Eating Your Pond Plants
Pond owners love their colorful koi, and they equally love their pond plants. Yet many struggle to keep their koi from making a feast of their favorite waterlilies. What’s a water gardener…
Enhance Your Pond’s Beauty and Ecosystem with Exquisite Marginal Plants
Marginal plants are perhaps the most versatile plant group in the water garden. They add beauty, color, texture, and valuable filtration, and are called marginals because they’re typically planted around the edges,…
How to Be Smart About Your Pond Temperature
It’s no secret that pond temperature can change throughout the seasons, especially if you live in a northern climate where the pond freezes over during winter, and warms up to 70 degrees…
Common Doesn’t Mean Boring: Exploring Hariwake Koi
Getting to know Hariwake Koi
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