Bog Plants for Your Backyard Pond

Build a Backyard water Pond

How to Build a Pond

Pond building for the do it yourselfer. Photos and instructions.

Where to buy Pond Supplies

We furnish everything but the water.

Oxygenating plants for your water garden

Oxygenating plants for your water garden

Learn about oxygenating or submerged grasses for your pond

Where to buy oxygenating plants

Find the plants you need to filter your water and feed your fish.
Always check with your local extension service. Some plants are illegal in some states because they can become invasive in local waterways.
We ship plants from May to October and always second day air to ensure freshness.

Floating Plants for Your Pond

Learn what plants are best for you

Floating plants for Your Pond

Learn about the best floating plants to add beauty to your pond.

Where to Buy Floating Plants

Always check with your local extension service. Some plants are illegal in some states because they can become invasive in local waterways.
We ship plants from October to May and always second day air to ensure freshness.

Water Lilies for Your Pond

Water Lilies for Your Pond

Learn about the right water lily for your climate.

Where to Buy Water Lilies

Water lilies and lotus are the queens of the pond. Find the one you want here.

We ship plants from October to May and always second day air to ensure freshness.

Bog Plants Explained

Flowering Hardy Pond Plants

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Rushes and Reeds

What bog plants can I grow in my pond? Are they hardy? Do they flower

Hardy Broadleaf Bog Plants

Plants that will survive Northern winters. They may die back, but will return in the spring bigger and better.

Oxygenating Pond Plants

What can I use to provide oxygen for my fish?

Build it yourself

How to Build a Waterfall

To build a waterfall, read a few of my tips and tricks. You can build a professional looking waterfall in just a couple of hours.

How to build a Pondless Waterfall

Pondless waterfalls are another wonderful way to have a water feature in your yard or garden. You can have a waterfall with no pond, no fish, no green water to worry about. A pondless waterfall is also great for a small space.

How to Build a Koi Pond

Building a koi pond is different than building a goldfish pond or water garden. Let's talk about how to build a koi pond.

Build an Inexpensive Pond

You can build an inexpensive pond easily and in a weekend. It can look as beautiful as any that a professional has done and you will not have spent a fortune.

Self Contained Small Ponds

Small ponds in limited spaces are very difficult to design and install. When confronted with building a small pond, we pond builders tend to call it a design challenge. See some of the ways to overcome the small pond challenge

How to Build a Bog Garden

Building a bog garden, one of many forms of rain gardens is a great way to conserve water and add another element to your garden.

How to Build an Indoor Pond

You want to build an indoor pond, because you have no place to put it outside or just love the soothing sound of water bubbling in the house. You can have an indoor pond cheaply and easily.

How to Build a Natural Swimming Pond

Natural swimming ponds are all the rage. Many people in Europe already do have natural swimming ponds and they are catching on quickly in America.

How to Build a Natural Swimming Pond - English Style

How to build a swimming pond that uses no chlorine, no chemicals and looks like a natural pond in your landscape.

Build a Rain Garden

Build a rain garden and conserve water at the same time. Learn a few simple ways to make a rain garden.

Ponds Under Trees

Ponds under trees can offer planting opportunities for us that ponds in the sun cannot. Ponds under trees can demand a bit more maintenance but not enough to stop us from building our ponds under trees.

How to Build an Above Ground Pond

Occasionally ponds must be built above ground. Either the location is under trees and digging would injure the tree, the pond is to be on concrete, so digging is impossible or the pond builder is a tenant and wants to take the pond along when moving.

Liners, pumps, filters, rocks

Backyard Pond Pumps

Many backyard pond pumps to choose from: Which one is best for me?

Faux rocks - the real deal

Faux rocks are a great substitute for expensive, heavy and unwieldy rocks for pond and waterfall building

Epoxy Pond Liners

Epoxy pond liners are coming into their own. Now we have another choice when it comes to materials to line our ponds

Pond Filters and Skimmers, Do I Need Them?

Pond filters and skimmers have been sold to the public as necessary equipment for your pond, but are they always?

Pond Gadgets

As we begin our pond keeping hobby, we find that we need certain pond gadgets. Pond gadgets are things we don't use often, but when we need them, we need them now, not tomorrow or on Monday.

Pond Filtration

Figuring out pond filtration can be a chore. I have tried to explain what pond filtration means and some different ways to do it. And choices if you choose not to use pond filtration.

Choosing a Backyard Pond Pump

From initial cost to running cost, what pump is best for your pond? There are hundreds of pond pumps to choose from: Be sure you pick what is right for you.

Pond maintenance

Winter Pond Care - equipment

Winter pond care means special care for pumps, filters, hoses and supplies as well as pond dwellers.

Winter Pond Care - fish and plants

Winter pond care requires some special care, not much, but just a few things to watch. If you have not done all the nasty fall care, you must do it now. Trying to remove debris through the ice is impossible.

Fall Pond Care

Fall pond care involves a few different approaches to pond care.

Summertime Pond Care

Summertime pond care is only a bit different than spring pond care. When summertime weather hits, we must take a few precautions to ensure fish health.

Spring Pond Care

Spring pond care is essential and easy. Follow the the tips below to give your plants and fish an easy transition from winter torpor to spring awakening, so your pond, fish and plants can give you pleasure all summer long.

Pond Troubleshooting - a Case Study

Pond troubleshooting is much like any other troubleshooting. Eliminate the easy problems first and then start hunting.

My Pond is Leaking

Learning how to repair your pond liner is the most difficult problem to solve in pond keeping. You must find holes and patch them and very often that is not an easy task.

Pond Algae: Green Pond Blues

You don't have to suffer the pond algae and green pond blues. A green pond is normal and happens easily. Your pond has turned to pea soup overnight. What can you do now? Here are several ways to keep your pond clean and clear.

Routine Pond Maintenance

Now that I have a backyard pond, what routine pond maintenance is needed? I have heard they are practically maintenance free. Find out how maintenance free a pond can be.

Pond Disasters

Pond disasters can happen to any pond or water garden. They are usually simple to find and easy to repair. Often a pond problem develops quickly when the ecosystem gets out of balance. How you can find your pond problems and solve them yourself with quick and easy solutions.

Pond Cleaning-Step by Steps Instructions for Cleaning the Garden Pond

Pond cleaning is not for the faint of heart! Step by step instructions for cleaning your garden pond.

Pond inhabitants

Toads and Frogs in your Backyard Pond

Frogs, toads and backyard ponds go together. We build wildlife resorts in our back yard complete with room service, 400 count sheets and chocolates on the pillows and wonder why we get nightly applause from our invited amphibious residents.

Choosing Goldfish for Your Pond

Choosing goldfish for your pond can be simple if you follow a few tips. When you are choosing goldfish, shop at a pet or fish store, limit your choices, don't buy too many and don't spend much money.

Pond plants

Pond plants: Duckweed and Water Fern

Duckweed and water fern are floating pond plants. They probably the most invasive and noxious of all of the floating plants.

Water Lilies

Water lilies are often the reason we have ponds. Water lilies lend an exotic look to the pond that we treasure, taking little care and offering much enjoyment.

Pond Plants

Pond plants can be submerged, floating or emergent. The submerged plant, usually anacharis is the key to balancing the pond ecosystem. With enough, your pond will stay crystal clear.

Floating Pond Plants

Floating pond plants are a necessity for the ecologically balanced pond. Like submerged vegetation, they are workhorses in your pond.

Pond Plants: Umbrella and Pitcher

Pond plant choices are many and varied. We want early bloomers, late bloomers, hardy or tropical. For every pond and bog there are plants that will thrive. Two are spotlighted here.

Pond Plants: Arrow Arum

Arrow arum is one of the dozens of marginal or bog plants that do well in the ornamental backyard pond.

Pondlady's Picks

The Complete Book of The Water Garden

The Complete Book of the Water Garden, by Philip Swindells and David Mason is arguably the finest, most comprehensive water gardening book ever written.

Miracle-Gro Water Gardens, a Review

MIracle-Gro has produced one fine pond help book. The very best part of it is that it is spiral bound, so it will lie flat, and waterproof so you can take it outside with you, put it on the ground for reference and clean it up later.

The Curious Gardeners Almanac

The Curious Gardener's Almanac, centuries of practical garden wisdom, by Niall Edworthy, published by The Penguin Group in New York is not a book about ponds. In fact, it is not a book about gardens either. This book has no pigeon hole in which to be pushed.

All about the Pond, Book Review-Evan-Moor publishers.

A great book for teachers of small children with many resources in one great book.

The Pond Owner's Problem Solver, a Review

The Pond Problem Solver by John Dawes, Book review, how to build a pond, where to put a pond, fish, fish diseases, pond maintenance, pond plants

The Creative Herbal Home

The Creative Herbal Home is certainly not a book you would expect to see at pondlady.com. So why is it here?

Miscellaneous pond info

Attracting Winter Wildlife to Your Backyard Pond

In the winter our ponds lie dormant, or do they? We can keep a water supply open and give our winter garden creatures a drink and something to eat.

Decorate Your Pond for the Holidays

Decorate your pond when you decorate your house for the holidays

Ponds, schools, and kids

Ponds and kids go together. Schools and ponds go together. Use a pond across the entire curriculum to teach kids.

The Pondkeepers' Glossary

Pondkeepers use words that most do it yourself pond builders have never heard before. What are pond builders talking about when they say GPH or dechlor? What is a spitter? What is a UV light and do I need one?

Water Conservation and Your Backyard Pond

Our water crisis is worsening, but ponds can be a way of water conservation, not waste. Find ways to conserve water by using efficient pumps, statuary and solar power.

Starting a Pond and Water Garden Society?

Pond and water garden societies can be a great educational tool for pond keepers. If you don't have one near you, here's how to start a pond and water garden society.