aquatic plants

Natural Inclinations
This beautiful project in Princeton, N.J., has always been about innovation. It was one of the first pools by our firm BioNova, built in the U.S. back in 2010. Although combining plants and swimming pools has been common throughout Europe for over 30 years, the pool was
Planting Presence
Back when we launched WaterShapes, just over 21 years ago, the magazine surprised lots of people for a variety of reasons: Its broad focus on all types of water systems; the fact that it's written in the first person by industry experts and not
Dawn of the Swimming Pond
Ponds built for swimming are becoming more and more popular - at least they have been in our business. For the past 3-4 years, we've actively promoted recreation-style or swimming-style ponds and have experienced some strong success. Now more than half of our projects are designed and built with swimming in mind, and many of those installations stand among our finest efforts. It's similar in some respects to what we see in the swimming pool market where people are investing in their backyards so they can enjoy the
An Equine Retreat
  It is rare that any of us are asked to build a swimming pond for horses. But why not? They are admittedly much bigger than Koi and certainly larger than humans, yet I am assured they are considerably cleaner than dogs and genuinely do benefit from the leg-relieving buoyancy that comes with immersion in water. The first pond I built for equestrian swimmers came along in the late 1970s - just after I'd completed several large gravel-filtration ponds for trout: It seemed at the time that the same principles that worked so well for
Transition Water
I live beside a lake on a property that also includes the headquarters for my business, Floating Island International (Shepherd, Mont.).  The lake serves as our laboratory, and my near-constant proximity to it means that I've gotten to watch how the water has changed through the years.   It's been an upward spiral:  The water keeps getting clearer, cleaner and
Aquascape Introduces Floating Plant Island
Aquascape (St. Charles, IL) has announced its new Floating Plant Island – a means of…
Aquascapes Unlimited Adds to Its List of Aquatic Plants
Aquascapes Unlimited (Pipersville, PA) has released Hydrocotyle Ranunculoides ‘Crystal Ball,’ a variegated Buttercup Pennywort.  This…
Home, Sweet Home
  From postage-stamp miniatures to lake-scale behemoths, it’s no stretch to say that ponds come in all sizes.  While it’s certainly true that big ones give their owners boundless options when it comes to creating large ecosystems that support plenty of fish and plants, we’ve learned 
Rethinking a Pond?
It’s accepted wisdom in the pond business that most homeowners who get bitten by the watergardening bug will commonly own three ponds before they’re truly satisfied.  They’ll start with a simple, small pond and work up through an intermediate stage before acquiring a large, full-featured pond that reflects their growing confidence and competence in 
2012/8.2, August 22 — Front-Yard Design, Aquatic Plants, Halprin Fountain and more
AUGUST 22 2012 www.watershapes.com ESSENTIAL Suburban Spaces You really can find opportunities in unexpected places,…