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2017/10.1, October 4 — Expanding Vision, Watergarden Art, Cascading Splendor and more

THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS October 4, 2017 www.watershapes.com FEATURE ARTICLE…

Cascades look great in daylight, but lighting them has always been a challenge -- and Jeff Chapman had three of them on his plate. Fortunately, he also had access to a new LED technology -- a system that made his work just as compelling at night as it is by day.

Lights on the Side

We've designed and built lots of fountains and waterfeatures through the years on all sorts of scales and levels, but this one - a definite jump outside the box - will be particularly memorable for all of us. The client was The Woodlands, the big planned community near Houston. One of its highlights is a 1.7-mile-long waterway

Aquascape Unveils Basalt Column Fountain Kits

Aquascape (St. Charles, IL) now packages sets of three Mongolian basalt columns in complete fountain…

Tuuci Offers the Equinox Cabana

Tuuci (Miami, FL) makes Equinox Cabana structures. Designed to transform any patio, poolside or outdoor…

DEL Ozone Introduces the Solar Eclipse 50

DEL Ozone (San Luis Obispo, CA) manufactures Solar Eclipse 50, an ozone-generating system designed for…

Hidden Garden Sounds from PlanterSpeakers

PlanterSpeakers (Bridgeport, CT) makes speaker systems hidden within classic planter formats, including the Model 6.17…

W.R. Meadows Offers Dual-Layer Waterproofing

W.R. Meadows (Hampshire, IL) offers Clay-Tite, a dual-layer waterproofing system consisting of virgin HDPE (20…

Deck-Toned Skimmer Covers from CMP

CMP (Newnan, GA) manufactures Natural Wonders Deck Covers as a custom design element intended to…

Chromatic Virtues

‘Color is amazing.’ That’s how David Tisherman began his September 2002 “Details” column for WaterShapes. ‘It provides us with some of greatest opportunities we ever have to create spaces that are emotionally evocative and visually compelling,’ he added, ‘yet it is also one of the most difficult design details to understand and put to good and effective use. ‘Trouble is, there’s no easy way to simplify the challenge: Color is indeed a tough nut to crack, and that’s as true

Rock-Bottom Value

There was a time when lots of ponds were set up without gravel, notes Ed Beaulieu. But as he discusses here, there are so many advantages to lining their interiors with rocks of various sizes that it's time to push that old practice out of the pond-making picture, once and for all.