For many, there’s nothing better than relaxing in a backyard garden and listening to water gurgling over a small waterfall. “We did a survey and the No. 1 reason people wanted a water feature was for ...

Creating a backyard fish pond adds value and beauty to your landscape, giving you an oasis for relaxation while supporting local wildlife. Whether starting from scratch or upgrading an existing pond, ...

When Denise Carroll jumps into her pond from its ledge, she swims alongside kois named Cutie, Baby and Jason (names chosen by her two young children). She’s not crazy about sharing the water with the ...

Some prospective home buyers are wooed by a move-in-ready kitchen or expansive picture windows. For Mark Vander Linden, the selling point for the Des Moines house he wound up buying was a small koi ...

When Joan Doyle was a little girl, her Lakeview home featured a fish pond so large and elaborate that she and her siblings named the house after it. “When my sisters and I talk about our old family ...

Often beautiful in theory, many ponds end up as stagnant corners of the garden that don’t quite earn their keep. But what if you could swap your unloved water feature for something a little more ...

Eric Triplett will present “Creating a Backyard Pond” when the Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society meets 7 p.m. Thursday, April 17, at the Redlands Church of the Nazarene, 1307 E. Citrus ...

Urbanization is rapidly transforming landscapes worldwide, becoming a key driver of global biodiversity loss. It often impacts biodiversity negatively by creating selective environments that limit ...

As small aquatic habitats disappear at an alarming rate, private garden ponds may help compensate for the loss of natural habitats and support biodiversity in urban areas. However, as these ponds ...