Save money on ponds, pond filters, backyard waterfalls, fountains, and water gardening

This is a 250 word (approx) summary of a chapter from my book. Each chapter or main topic has been summarised in this way. For a complete list of summaries see the right hand column

Concepts:

pond, pump, water, advice, costs, plants, fish, installing, koi, waterfall, gardener, fountain, retailers, equipment, beautiful.

Summary:

- Peter May does this best when he says "To have the sight and sound of water near them in a garden has been an almost instinctive urge to people of all cultures in all ages.

- Some of the major reasons for this are the ease of installing a pond complete with built-in edging accompanied by highly efficient and reliable pumps and bio-filters combined with UV lights.

- Such ponds will incur minimum running costs and will involve very little maintenance if the ideas in this publication are understood and followed.

- When you have finished reading this book and if you are still not sure or would like some reassurance ask someone who can provide the information and will give you sensible advice.

- The chances are good you will get inadequate advice from many retailers and be sold a pump which is totally unsatisfactory because some retailers themselves do not fully understand what they are selling.

- They are hardier than koi eat less than koi and so grow more slowly.

- These fish really are wonderful and beautiful fish.

- Unless you really enjoy landscaping and digging buy yourself a waterfall or stream made from glassfibre with a rocklike appearance.

- These are so realistic these days it makes no sense at all to me to go out and buy rocks and then engineer them into a waterfall using liners or concrete.

- If you intend to put water plants in your pond and I recommend you do this then plant them in specially manufactured "lily baskets" or normal plant pots.