How To Set Up A Backyard Pond

All water features can add visual appeal to your backyard, but the pond is a classic favorite. And they're actually versatile too. Hither are 12 pond landscaping ideas to inspire your ain garden designs.

Stepped Waterfall Swimming

Waterfalls look best if you accept a sloped landscape to build them on. Large flat stones or paving slabs can then exist used to create a stepped structure for water to menstruum into a big circular pond at the base.

Rocky Waterfall Pond

For a more natural waterfall look, utilize differently shaped boulders and rocks to construct edges for the water to cascade over. It'due south a skillful thought to extend this cragginess motif to the perimeter of your pond too, surrounding it with additional rocks.

Traditional Brick Swimming

A traditional pond surmounted with brick has a timelessly elegant appeal. Either new or reclaimed bricks will do; it's all about the shape you create. A thick-rimmed circular outline, for example, can be far more hitting than the sum of its parts.

Shiny Pebble Pond

Some garden ponds are then integrated into the landscape that they could appear as little more than puddles. Past extending the base cloth—in this case polished white pebbles—beyond the water's edge onto the surrounding lawn, you can make such a pond into more of a feature.

Stone Geometry Pond

This one works well in gardens with a geometric blueprint. A square, pentagonal or hexagonal stone outline framing a sunken pond works particularly well alongside angular borders and clean, straight-edged decking, for case.

Mossy Koi Pond

A rolling rock gathers no moss, they say, but stones next to your pond usually do. And it helps to create a dynamic, thriving ecosystem in which even your difficult landscaping elements come alive. Moss is a common feature in outdoor fish ponds designs, so add some cute koi to complete the look.

Concrete Channel Pond

This can have the experience of a British Victorian walled garden, so it looks corking with archetype architectural styles. An angular channel is created with pedimented stone walls either side, almost taking on the appearance of a sunken aqueduct, and fringed with topiary, grasses and other plants.

Lily Pad Pond

A simple, circular lily pad swimming looks great in any size. Even if you have merely a tiny infinite available, your garden could do good from ane of these. Lily pads echo the shape of the design while adding a timeless appeal.

Walled Reservoir Pond

By raising your pond and surrounding it with a purlieus wall, information technology well-nigh starts to look like a well or—depending on the size—a reservoir. Finding construction materials to suit the residuum of your garden will keep it from looking out of place.

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Country Creek Pond

Plastic pond molds can exist restrictive unless all you want is a cocky-contained pond in a traditional shape. Constructing one or more little channels out from your pond—ideally with a solar pump to keep water flowing through—tin can brand your feature more unique. And a small footbridge tin can add to the rustic experience.

Frog Sanctuary Pond

Frogs love garden ponds, and many pond-owners beloved frogs. If you lot desire to encourage these vibrant amphibians to your yard, make your pond at to the lowest degree several feet deep (with shallower areas of at least 2 feet in depth) and keep the water circulating and so it doesn't freeze over in the winter. Depth also protects frogs against predators.

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Sculpture Garden Pond

Ponds and garden sculptures often go hand in hand. Ideas include elegant bird sculptures in a densely planted purlieus or focal point sculptures that emerge from the h2o of the pond itself, such equally a central sundial, column or statue.