To keep water-loving plants happy, try making a simple bog garden. Putting your bog near a pond will naturally integrate it into your landscape. Or, plan one in place of a pond. Dress it up by placing ...

Chinampas are a traditional form of aquaponics long practiced in South America. Cut down on time spent watering, weeding, and fertilizing plants and keep algae at bay with pond aquaponics. Learn how ...

Mini ponds can be made from plant pots, old sinks, buckets – anything that can hold water (Credit: Heather Stuckey) When the BBC's Katherine Latham made a pond with just a plant pot, some rocks and a ...

STEPHEN RYAN: I've got something to show you. This is my bog garden, or at least it was. I had a dysfunctional septic system and the storm water runs through here. But after 10 years of drought, by ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. If you've ever seen a bog with its one-of-a-kind ...

Many homeowners take comfort in knowing water is wicking away from their home after a rain. But Judy and Robert Cole have gone to some effort to keep the rainwater next to their Pasadena home, where ...

Costa Georgiadis visits Dover Heights Community Preschool in Sydney’s East to help put in a frog pond. Kathy Potter, from the Frog and Tadpole Study Group of NSW, brought along some frogs for the kids ...

Whenever I visit a garden with natural water, I go green with envy. Imagine a gently flowing brook or a natural, spring-fed pond as your central feature. Natural water courses look ravishing in summer ...

Pond-life sinks to the bottom for the winter so November is a good time to do some maintenance-clearing in and around the pond. Leaves to leave? Water lily foliage causes no problems as it dies right ...

When the BBC's Katherine Latham made a pond with just a plant pot, some rocks and a few native pond plants, she was amazed at the speed wildlife moved in. "I hope we get frogs and newts, and animals ...