Natural Wonders Waterfall Systems from CMP
CMP (Newnan, GA) offers Natural Wonders Waterfalls for adding sheer veils of water to pools,…
Construction Package from DBX Software
DBX Software (Mesa, AZ) has developed Pro DBX, an all-in-one, cloud-based software solution for watershape…
Zodiac Upgrades the Polaris Booster Pump
Zodiac Pool Systems (Vista, CA) has introduced the Polaris PB4SQ booster pump. Designed for energy…
Fox Pool Adds In-Pool Benches
Fox Pool (York, PA) now offers straight and radiused in-pool benches with its vinyl-liner pool…
Couture Outdoor Offers Double Daybed
Couture Outdoor (Southampton, NY) imports the Chill Daybed, a double-size unit with a retractable canopy…
A Path Not Taken
As I read Robert Nonemaker's article on the recommissioning of the Main Fountain Garden at Longwood Gardens while uploading it to the WaterShapes web site, one comment he made stuck in my mind:  Seeing that fountain as a ten-year-old, he wrote, was one of his inspirations for becoming a watershaper. I didn't have that sort of uplifting aquatic experience as
Green Evolution
If friends had told me that, eight years after leaving the Las Vegas desert, I'd be incorporating synthetic turf in a high percentage of my outdoor spaces in Texas, I would've said "No way!" What a concept!   I now live and work where there's no water shortage, so why on earth would my clients or I have any interest in finding substitutes for big expanses of lawn? Well, what I'm seeing now is that the low-maintenance, long-lasting faux-grass solution is
Visual Acceptance
‘In one way or another,’ declared David Tisherman in his Details column of June 2002, ‘visual acceptance is what makes our world go around. ‘Think about the clothes we wear, the cars we admire, the foods we eat – not to mention interior design, home and office furnishings, landscapes and watershapes. So much of our response to these and other features of our environment,’ he added, ‘is based on
2017/6.1, June 7 — Longwood Updated, A Troubled Pond, Artificial Grass and more
THE ESSENTIAL E-NEWSLETTER FOR WATERSHAPE DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS June 7, 2017 www.watershapes.com FEATURE ARTICLE…
A Pond in Distress
Whenever we approach a pond design/installation project, we are mindful of the fact that a big part of our mission is to make the result as trouble-free as possible for our clients.  It is never our intention to mess with their good moods, nor is it our practice, if things need adjusting later on, to avoid digging in as deep as may be necessary and finding a once-and-for-all solution to whatever the problem might be. The project on display in this set of four brief videos is living proof that