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During the summer of 1999, we reconstructed the gazebo pond on our nursery
grounds, taking advantage of the latest pond construction techniques, materials,
and systems. We photographed this large project throughout every stage of
the construction to demonstrate the process we use to build ponds.
Although most residential garden pond jobs are on a much smaller scale than this
one, our large pond project is still a good model for showing the steps we
follow.
For a historical perspective, click on the thumbnail image to the left to see
what the pond looked like back in the early 1980's.
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Player. When you click on one of the links below, we will automatically
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Slide Show #1 (546 KB): Annotated step-by-step descriptions and photographs
of all the major steps involved in building a garden pond. This is the
best slide show to view first if you want to learn how we build our ponds.
Slide Show #2 (293 KB): Chronological series of photographs taken facing the
waterfall.
Slide Show #3 (446 KB): Chronological series of photographs taken facing the
gazebo.
Slide Show #4 (318 KB): Chronological series of photographs taken with the
garden center building and greenhouse in the background.
Here are some miscellaneous photographs of the completed pond (click on any
thumbnail image to view a larger photo):
All of the above photos are reproduced on our Nursery
Tour page.
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Click here to see another
interactive slide show of a different pond installation project at a residential
site (444 KB).
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Click here or on the photo
strip above to see another pond project that we completed directly in front of
the main doors of the garden center on our grounds. This pond was built in
a single day, start to finish, on July 1, 2003 (we had a lot of helpers!).
Note: Be sure to use the scroll bar to see all four photos. If you have
"Automatic Image Resizing" selected in Internet Explorer's settings
(the default setting), this image will not display at full size unless you hover
the mouse pointer over the image until this resize button appears:  ,
and then click this button.
Here's another viewpoint of the completed pond:
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Click here to see some photos of more
typical residential garden ponds that we have created for landscape jobs.
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