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<\/a>A source of pride and joy for the homeowners, the pond has been enhanced over the years by their special care and continual planting additions. I met with the clients again recently.\u00a0 We will be installing a back yard patio for them in the very near future.<\/p>\nHere are some recent pictures of the water feature and surrounding area. The key to a low maintenance water feature is a balanced ecosystem.\u00a0 Filters, pumps, plumbing, and rocks (all included in our installation) along with the correct plants and fish are all essential elements.<\/p>\n Betty also has snails in her pond and an underwater oxygenating plant called Anachoris to help aid the process. She is proud of her water feature, which is kept beautiful naturally.\u00a0\u00a0 And, her fish are very happy as they have plenty of places to hide.<\/p>\n A view from a different angle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We installed this boulder water garden back in 2007 for a very nice couple in Leesburg, Virginia. A source of pride and joy for the homeowners, the pond has been enhanced over the years by their special care and continual planting additions. I met with the clients again recently.\u00a0 We will be installing a back… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,4,17,41],"tags":[15,26,27,24,18,43,38,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstreetlandscape.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>The homeowner loves to work outside in her garden and her water feature.\u00a0 She climbs right into the pond and pulls out some of the algae by hand.\u00a0 Too much algae can deplete the pond of oxygen which is essential for a healthy ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>Here are some more pictures.\u00a0 The boulder steps in the background climb up to the back of the house.<\/p>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>\n<\/a>And, Betty enjoying her water feature!<\/p>\n<\/a>Thank you Betty and Bill for the great pictures!<\/p>\n