Category / Water Gardening Blog / Plants
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.
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White in the Water Garden
While everyone loves the pop of a pink lotus or violet waterlily, have you ever considered adding whimsical white to your water garden?
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Pond Fish Health: What You Need to Know
Pond season is finally here for most of the country! Watching your fish swim happily about is a sight for sore eyes after a long winter. But do you have a pond…
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7 Tips for Planting Your Pond
From colorful water lilies that dance on the pond’s surface to aquatic Forget-Me-Nots that hug the edges of your water garden, it’s the amazing pond plants that put the “garden” in “water garden.” You can apply many of
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10 Tips for Buying Healthy Fish
Adding life to your pond provides a whole new element to the overall experience of owning a water feature. Will you add some colorful koi, or opt for another type of pond fish like shubunkins or sarassas?
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Planning Your Pond Renovation
Now that spring is officially here, it’s time to start thinking about what you might want to do to change and improve about your pond. And if you’re still dreaming of your first pond, this too is a great time to plan for that!
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Backyard Transformations: Before and After
Spring is just weeks away and you’re probably already dreaming of sprucing up the yard. Maybe you’ll add a new flower bed, or perhaps a vegetable garden is in your future. Or…
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Small Plants for Small Ponds
Plants in the water garden not only provide beauty and naturalization, but they also help balance the pond ecosystem. Even a small pond will benefit from the beauty of aquatic plants. We’ve chosen our top favorites that do well in smaller aquatic…
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Small Ponds Pack a Punch
If you’re under the mistaken impression that a pond simply won’t fit in your yard … think again! Ponds come in a variety of shapes and sizes and their versatility is what makes them such a great addition to your landscape …
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The Ultimate Backyard Waterfall!
Sometimes people look at a large sloping lot in the backyard and consider it a challenge. It’s hard to set up a croquet set, or play a game of bags on it.…
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How Many Fish Can You Add to Your Pond?
Too many fish in the pond creates an imbalance in water, so you’ll want to make sure you’re smart about the number and size of fish that you place in the water garden.
