Wonderful Water Features

Water features are the hottest trend in landscaping today. Across America, high maintenance, boring expanses of lawn are being transformed into beautiful, low maintenance water features. Why you ask? Water features offer you the chance to have a touch of paradise, right in your own back yard!

Water gardens offer a beauty and peacefulness unsurpassed by any other type of landscape feature. They offer a tranquility that transcends today's stressful world, offering the perfect place to unwind. Imagine coming home from a long, hectic day at work to relax by your own water garden... You hear the soothing sound of a waterfall while you watch the colorful fish dart around your beautiful water lilies, and the day's stress slowly melts away.

Recipe for Success

By combining several key ingredients, such as water plants, fish and an adjacent patio you can create something truly breathtaking. The beauty and low maintenance of aquatic plants provide a truly unique addition to any water garden, while no water feature would be complete without the sparkle and playfulness offered by fish. They are needed to make your pond ecosystem complete and their flash of color adds immensely to the enjoyment of your water garden.

No pond is complete without an adjacent deck, brick patio or gazebo. Because moving water encompasses all the senses, your water feature should be the focal point of your yard. Perennial plantings, ornamental grasses and even ground cover help naturalize the water's edge. Often a deck or patio can be incorporated for a more up-close and personal appreciation of your water feature. You can always do your project in stages - adding a bridge or patio in upcoming seasons.

Winter Wonderland

Unlike some landscape features, water gardens are as lovely in the winter as they are during the rest of the year. You can continue to run your waterfalls throughout the winter or turn them off to enjoy a beautiful rock garden. Don't worry about your fish either. With a few precautions they will hibernate peacefully through the winter just like they do in the wild.

Increasing Value

Environmentally friendly and completely customized water features can be installed anywhere -just like ordinary landscaping. They can even be placed indoors! Also, water features, like other types of landscaping mature with age increasing the value of your house more than any other kind of home improvement. Many satisfied homeowners readily profess that adding a water feature was the best investment they ever made.

At Advance Designs we are ready, willing and able to construct the water feature of your dreams. From a miniature reflection pond at the front entrance of your house, to an elaborate multiple of interconnected waterfalls, ponds and streams, no job is too big or too small. Let us help you make your dream of a water filled paradise a reality. Whether your job is a new construction or a renovation of an existing water feature, we guarantee that it will bring years of enjoyment. So why not continue your tour of our water features section, and discover a little more about each element of a successful and rewarding water feature.