For smaller natural ponds, the container can be placed above ground, like on a backyard deck. For a more natural-looking pond, place the container in the ground.

Learn how to build a natural pond that stays clean and algae-free without the use of pumps, filters or chemicals. Water, soil, plants and animals balance each other while living in a DIY natural pond.

Elevate your backyard with a water feature you can build all by yourself. An attractive, low-maintenance water feature makes any yard more inviting. In this collection of DIY ponds, fountains and ...

Backyard after the stream And that’s the majority of the work in building a stream—lots of digging. The pool at the end of the stream is deceptively deep. The rock floor sits atop two 31.5 ...

Company president Diane Salks has owned ponds for 25 years and once maintained a 4,200-gallon pond – roughly the size of 42 bathtubs – with a one-story waterfall.

Typically, natural ponds have a waterfall to pump water back into the swimming area. Design and shape options are endless.

The cost of building a natural pool is fairly comparable to that of a chlorine pool — in Southern California, Sara Bendrick, the founder of Sarita Landscapes, who worked on Ms. Carroll’s, said ...

In my ongoing search for how to re-create the natural look in gardens, I turn to one of my favorite waterfall builders — Gerald Roulette, of G & O Landscaping in Sherwood, Ore.

Natural swimming ponds take many shapes. Some look like traditional pools with poured concrete foundations, hard edges and straight lines. Others take forms that more closely mimic nature, with ...