Pickerelweed is also a great plant for natural filtration, helping to keep your pond water clean and clear. Its vibrant ...

Ponds that contain fish provide a natural source of nutrients that help support an aquaponic vegetable garden. Not only will your floating vegetable plants produce food, but they’ll also keep ...

If you're looking for your next garden project and want something low maintenance that's also beneficial for the entire ecosystem, consider building a tiny wildlife pond. Backyard ponds have a ...

Over time, natural processes usually fill ponds through gradual silting ... Yet succession continues and many ponds are being filled in on purpose or overtaken by invasive plants, so pond species have ...

Choose plenty of native pond plants, to avoid the spread of non-native ... These small water bodies can be permanent or seasonal, natural or man-made, and provide habitats for many endemic ...

Aquatic plant overgrowth can pose significant challenges in ponds, affecting activities such ... biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says that overgrowth can also disrupt ...

feels that the benefits of swimming in a chlorine-free body of water surrounded by natural plants outweigh any potential ick. After all, this pond is the swimming pool Carroll wanted, and she ...

Natural swimming pools mimic nature, using plants, biofilters ... was also game to try to figure it out for himself. He turned to pond expert Mike McPherson, near Sacramento, for advice on ...

Buttonbush habitats are similar to black willow and include creek, stream, pond and river banks and other low-lying, frequently wet and/or boggy or swampy areas. Trunks of large buttonbush plants ...

Florida is swimming in 76,000 stormwater ponds. Designed to control flooding, stormwater ponds are not as effective as natural ponds at removing nitrogen, a pollutant that can go downstream into lakes ...