Garden ponds design ideas

Garden ponds can be excellent habitats, and can make a contribution to the protection of freshwater Invertebrate animals such as dragonflies and water beetles, and amphibians can colonies new ponds quickly. Garden pond owners have the potential to make many original and valuable observations about the ecology of small water bodies, which garden ponds replicate.

Ponds may be created by natural processes or by people. However, the origin of the hole in the ground makes little difference to the kind of wildlife that will be found in the pond. Much more important is whether the pond is polluted or clean, how close it is to other wetlands and its depth, particularly whether it dries out time to time and how many fish there are.

A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or artificial, that is usually smaller than a lake. They may arise naturally in floodplains as part of a river system, or they may be somewhat isolated depressions, examples include vernal pools and prairie potholes. They may contain shallow water with marsh and aquatic plants and animals. The depth and duration of flooding and nutrient levels, but other factors may also be important, including presence or absence of shading by trees, presence or absence of streams, effects of grazing animals.

Ponds are often human constructed. In the countryside farmers and villagers dig in their backyard or increase the depth of an existing pond by removing the layers of mud during the summer season. A variety of artificial water bodies are classified as ponds. Some ponds are specifically created for habitat restoration, including water treatment.

Like water gardens, water features and koi ponds are designed for aesthetic ornamentation as landscape or architectural features. Fish ponds are designed for commercial fish breeding, and solar ponds are designed to store thermal energy. Treatment ponds are used to treat wastewater.

Standing bodies of water such as puddles, ponds categorized separately from flowing water courses, such as brooks, creeks, streams or rivers. Nutrient levels and water quality in ponds can be controlled through natural processes such as algal growth, or through artificial filtration, as an algae scrubber.