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Tips for Building Backyard Pools Water Gardens Water Features
Tips for Building Backyard Pools | Water Gardens & Water Features from Preformed Ponds. 1. Place the pool liner in position and mark out the shape on the ground around it. 2...
Putting the Water Garden Pond to Bed for Winter
Putting the Water Garden & Pond to Bed for Winter. This is the season of our discontent, us poor water gardeners. The registered temperature slowly crawls down the thermometer and the world of the water garden slows to slumbering...
Water Garden Chronicles List of Pond Keeping Articles Peter J Mays Water Garden Chronicles Peter J May's Water Garden Chronicles. Hello, Peter May.
Pond Waterfall Design and Creating Water Gardens
Pond & Waterfall Design and Creating Water Gardens. Advises on how to create a water garden in any situation, in any terrain and in any style, using readily available materials from your local garden store and builders supply merchant...
Water Gardening & Pond Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
Answers to Water Gardening Pond Care Questions FAQs. Choosing liners, pumps, pond filters, aquatic plants. I am interested in putting in a pond, but the choices of liners, pumps, filters, etc. is staggering...
Landscaping ideas Building garden ponds with flexible pond
Landscaping ideas | Building garden ponds with flexible pond liner. Technical tips: When things are nice and simple, and the ground is firm and flat,...
Golden Rules Of Koi Keeping and Some Personal Water Gardening
Golden Rules Of Koi Keeping and Some Personal Water Gardening Observations. Questions posed to Peter May. Peter lives in Blagdon, North Somerset. how did you get into koi? I didn't, or at least I didn't intend to...
Your Perfect Garden Pond DIY Ponds Waterfalls Become Reality
Your Perfect Garden Pond | DIY Ponds & Waterfalls Become Reality. Your pond or water garden should encourage lots of quality family time around it. If you are thinking of creating a water garden...
Building backyard ponds Choosing site and pond liner material
Building backyard ponds | Choosing site and pond liner material. If you are contemplating building a water garden or a backyard pool for yourself or if you are wondering why your last efforts were such a disaster...
Building backyard ponds | Preformed ponds built into ground
Building backyard ponds | Preformed ponds built into ground. If you are contemplating building a water garden or a backyard pool for yourself using a built in preformed pond liner then here is the way to make sure your landscaping designs work out in practice...
Building raised backyard ponds Preformed pond liners
Building raised backyard ponds | Preformed pond liners installation techniques. Showing footings for the blockwork that will support the pool liner and the facing stone...
Garden Pond Sludge | Clean Filters, Bacteria & Ponds
The mucky mystery of garden pool sludge. Making use of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. The accumulation of dark slimy gunk in the bottom of your garden pool or filter system seems pretty evil stuff,...
Pond plants and oxygen oxygenators for garden ponds
the essential ingeedient for every pond. A pool or a pond in a natural wild state is a self-sustaining little world. As in our bigger world, the inhabitants need oxygen to survive...
Pond plants provide oxygen aquatic oxygenators
Why not just throw them in and let them sort themselves out? If they do grow well because conditions are right for them, then you will want to cut them back regularly...
Preparing the pond for next Spring
You know the feeling a room has after you've taken down the Christmas decorations. Its like that post party feeling. Without people...
Streams For Your Garden Water Feature Project. Use preformed, liner and rock type products, above ground and below ground. all covered using detailed drawings and diagrams....
Water Features Built Using Plastic or Rubber Pond Liner
Water Features Built Using Plastic or Rubber Pond Liner. Economic tips: Estimating the size of your flexible liner is simply the length plus twice the depth by the width plus twice the depth....
Introduction to building ponds waterfalls water garden features
THE secrets of getting it right start at the basic foundations of any water garden, whether you choose preformed units or flexible liner materials.....
The Perfect Pond Detective Site Map
The Perfect Pond Detective Site Map. The following is a hierarchical listing of all the pages in this Web site that can be reached by following links from the top-level file "index.htm...
Building raised ponds | Using flexible pond liners built into un-level ground
Building raised ponds | Using flexible pond liners built into un-level ground. When you are building a back yard pond things are not so simple when part of the pool edge emerges above the level of the surrounding landscape...
Landscape pools with flexible pool liners to construct wildlife
Landscape pools with flexible pool liners to construct wildlife pools. When you landscape pools for natural look and wildlife access with flexible pool liners make sure you get the edging of the wildlife pools correct...
About Peter J May The Perfect Pond Detective
I am a member of the British Garden Writers Guild and its sub-section of Garden Photographers. I give presentations and talks to horticultural societies and garden clubs the length and breadth of the British Isles...
Need A Water Gardening or Pond Care Speaker
Need A Water Gardening or Pond Care Speaker?. If you are the events coordinator of a garden club or suchlike and looking for a speaker on any of the subjects below send me an email. fees:...
Peter J May The Pond Detective Writing Experience
The Pond Detective | Writing Experience. I have a BA in Philosophy from Lancaster University and although my article writing tends to be fairly down to earth and draws a lot on my own practical experience...
Short description The Perfect Pond Recipe Book By Peter J May
The Perfect Pond Recipe Book By Peter J May. The Techniques Of A Professional Landscaper In Creating Beautiful Enduring Water Features. Full Of Practical Tips, and Tricks and Supported By Detailed Drawings...
Water Garden Design Book by Yvonne Rees and Peter May. Published by David and Charles/ 12.99/ ISBN 7153 1281 2. Amateur Gardening: what's New with Julia Heaton. 15th Sept 2001....
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Peter J May Rates And Charges. For on site problem solving and consultation my charges are: 50 per hour plus travelling expenses at 0.40 per mile. e mail advice: first response free and follow ups by negotiation...
I have an extensive photographic library that includes: Many step by step projects in landscaping, water garden construction and water gardening. Water garden maintenance, garden maintenance...
Autographed Hard Cover Pond Care Books Direct
Autographed Hard Cover Pond Care Books Direct. The prices below exclude packing and postage. For UK orders packing and postage will be 2.70 for one OR more books. For international orders price will be supplied on application...
practical water gardens This site by Tony Roocroft contains a wealth of information covering all aspects of water gardens. You can download a free 25 page booklet all about pond keeping and subscribe to The Water Gardens Gazette...