Ponds and Waterfalls: Backyard Water Feature Designs
Transforming Your Backyard with Water Feature Landscaping Designs
Enhance Your Landscape with Ponds and Waterfalls
Water Features for Your Landscaping Needs: From Backyard Waterfalls to Pond Designs
Are you considering a backyard waterfall design but don’t know where to start with the hardscape installation of a pond and waterfall? Creating a plan and having the right equipment goes a long way toward saving you time and money. Backyard ponds and waterfalls quickly become the focal point of any landscape waterfalls design, and their benefits continue to grow. Moving water discourages mosquitoes, which love to breed in stagnant pools, and the churning crash of water over rocks breathes vital oxygen into your water garden on those hot summer afternoons.
Adding a hardscape water feature to your pond is now simpler than ever, thanks to innovative products like waterfall pumps that efficiently eliminate ammonia and nitrite and pre-built hardscape stone facades that make backyard water feature designs hassle-free. These cleverly-disguised pumps and lightweight facades are game-changers for pond owners.
Planning Your Project: Tips for Backyard Pond and Waterfall Installation
Structure: Designing Your Pond for Optimal Landscape Appeal
To pick the right waterfall pump, measure the height of the waterfall drop and the required flow rate in gallons per hour (gph). Determine head height by measuring the distance between where the pump will be resting and the highest point of the waterfall. If your pump is at the bottom of a 2 ft deep pond and the top of the waterfall is 4 ft tall, then your total head height is 6 ft.
An average waterfall, somewhere between a crash and a trickle, requires a flow rate of 100 gph per inch of waterfall or stream width. A waterfall that is 5 inches wide will need to pump with a flow rate of 500 gph. Therefore, a waterfall that is 5 inches wide at a total height of 6 ft will need a waterfall pump rated at 500 gph at 6 ft of head height. Refer to the manufacturer’s pump charts to find the perfect pond pump for your new waterfall.
Lastly, when building a waterfall, make sure to grade any flat areas slightly tilting toward the pond for proper drainage, and of course, take your time – it’s a work of art in progress.
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