Build and Maintain a Pond, Without Spending a Fortune!

Sometimes the most interesting pond systems aren’t the most complicated ones. Vu Tran’s pond in Da Lat, Vietnam holds only around 2.5 cubic metres (2,500 litres / 660 gallons) of...

The best plants for a bog filter are plants that tolerate wet roots, suit your climate and water depth, and are easy to trim or thin out.  In my ponds in south-east Australia, I use plants...

When Lee moved into a home in Phoenix, Arizona, the backyard pond came with it. Unfortunately, the pond’s equipment began breaking soon afterwards—and that was only the beginning. The pond...

Matt and his wife already spent plenty of time in their backyard in Southern Indiana, USA. They enjoyed coffee there in the morning and cigars in the evening, but they both felt one thing was...

A simple DIY pond in Toowoomba, Queensland — built from a polyethylene pool, an old rainwater tank and a bit of determination. You don’t need to excavate a huge hole or move tonnes of rock to...

I love bog filters. I use them in most of my own ponds, I talk about them constantly on YouTube, and I’ve even built a bog filter calculator to help people work out how big their filter should...