To the ancient Persians, like the Assyrians before them, a tree at the side a brook symbolized eternal life. Inheritors of land with great tracts of desert, the Persians built paradises, parks with stone lined watercourses representing the four rivers of Eden. The Egyptians built temple gardens with sacred lakes near the luxuriant banks of the great Nile. The Roman courtyard had a shallow pool that captured drips of rain from the eaves. The Arabs took the best of Roman and Persian designs and created well-ordered mathematically precise gardens with pools of still waters that reflected the beauty around them. Indian architects laid out great mirrors of water. Chinese gardens incorporated streams and pools into gardens with plants of beauty and fragrance. Japanese gardens sought to emulate nature within the confines of the small. Aztecs created chinampas, elevated gardens accessible by boats. Medieval gardens were often planted around a well where monks could meditate and pray.
Civilization has always incorporated water into elegant private and public gardens often at expenditures attainable only by nobility or community funding. These gardens required extensive engineering and hours of maintenance and manpower.
Modern technology has changed the water garden and brought it home. With a caveat. An exquisite water garden requires careful site selection, appropriate elevations, volume considerations, pump power, hardscaping, aquatic plant choices, planting, and proper timely maintenance.
Pondscapes designers will examine the lay of your lot, the architecture of your home, and consider your lifestyle. They will plan your water garden according to your style. We offer design, construction, and landscaping. We carry a full line of pond supplies for do-it-yourself care or can set up a schedule of regular maintenance. Pondscapes is here to make your water garden a pleasurable part of your life and provide as much or as little assistance as you need.
Pondscapes' store features a large outdoor showroom with a brick lined pathed that meanders between seven beautifully landscaped water gardens. Come into the store and see the variety of waterfalls, fountains, lush tropical foliage, koi, statues, and aquatic plants.
Pondscapes also offers a monthly pond building class. This free class is taught the last Saturday of every month at 9:00 A.M. EST.
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