How to plan a water feature

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Adding a water feature to your yard starts with a solid plan. Not only do you need to know where the water edge is, but you’ll need to think about landscaping, elevation, and how the pond fits into the landscape. Hiring a certified Aquascaper to create something magnificent is an option too. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3wQk7u9 Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4bK4DH2 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3wRuDkS EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3yEXbhM Learn More: 11 Aquatic Plants for Your Garden PondConnect With Greg the Pond Guy:Greg Wittstock, The Pond Guy, is owner and CEO of Aquascape, Inc. After experimenting with ponds for over eight years, Greg had a “light bulb” moment. He decided that he wanted to do something he loved for a living – he wanted to build ponds. From there he created the Aquascape, Inc. business model. Greg authored The Pond Guy on Marketing and has appeared on the cover of Inc. Magazine and in Nat Geo Wild’s “Pond Stars” series. Instagram Facebook YouTube TikTok Love Epic Gardening products?Apply to the Epic Affiliate Program. Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's pond week, my
0:03.0	pond week,
0:04.0	we're going to It's pond week my friends. We have Greg Wittsock back on the show, the pond guy and also the
0:17.4	founder of Aquasape who put in the pond in my backyard. And you know we talked
0:21.6	I think a year ago when you were out and you said something like the
0:26.2	pond is a Ferrari but you've got it in like the body of a minivan.
0:29.6	I don't miss words.
0:30.6	Something like that.
0:31.6	Yeah I appreciate it. I appreciate it and so you know it got us thinking and we had tried to establish some stuff but frankly I'm better at edible gardening. I'm not as good at landscape pond gardening. So it took us a couple stops and starts. I think now we're in a good spot, but if someone does have a water feature,
0:45.7	whether they build it themselves,
0:47.0	they've got something from Acrescape,
0:47.9	maybe something a little smaller,
0:49.3	how do you start thinking about the principles?
0:51.3	Because I think the thing that, to me, the thing that's interesting about the way you I think the thing that to me the thing that's
0:53.0	interesting about the way you guys do ponds is they look real yeah they look like a real they
0:57.1	look natural they look natural so thus the planting around them to me wants to be
1:00.8	natural right maybe you want to use some natives or you want Maybe you want to use some natives
1:04.0	or you want to use like break patterns,
1:06.0	make it look very authentic.
1:07.0	And so how does someone approach that?
1:09.0	Well, landscaping will make or break a water feature. So you can build a beautiful
1:15.2	Taj Mahal but if you put pink flamingos around it or you put you know little
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