Garden Water Pond Selections

There is nothing more pleasing than having an outdoor garden pond as your garden center piece. Since most of us do not have the privilege of living by a natural pond, an outdoor garden pond is the next best thing. Your garden water pond can be as simple or as elaborate as you'd like. Try adding garden statues and garden fountains to your outdoor pond!

The Perfect Home Garden Product To Encourage Relaxation

Our outdoor garden pond kits will add an elegant touch to any garden with very little effort.

Garden Ponds are the perfect home garden product that will add to the beauty of your garden and to the joy in your heart, as you watch the birds, fish, squirrels, butterflies, and other wild life play blissfully in and around your beautiful pond.

Garden Pond Kits

Garden Pond with Three Tier Cascade

Garden Pond Kit

Pond in a Kit

3 Tier Corner Deck Pond

How to Keep Your Pond Clean Without Chemicals

Clear Pond started doing business in 1977. They began operations as consultants and developers of natural based products in the aquaculture industry world wide. In 1978 they were the first company to offer laboratory cultured bacteria and enzymes to hobbyists in the pond and water garden market. Since 1978 their product line, has expanded to include a full range of natural water treatment products, pond filters, barley straw, pond kits, and many other water garden accessories. They specialize in manufacturing and selling a natural and ecologically safe line of water treatment products designed for safety, ease of use and simplicity.

Clear Pond BSL Liquid	Crystal Lagoon	Chloramine Buster City Water Treatment
Quick Fix Pond Water Treatment	Clear as Crystal
Pond Salt	pH Water Balancer

Barley Pond Pads

In the Middle Ages sheaves of corn were ceremonially thrown into village ponds and wells to ensure the purity of the water. More recently farmers have found, often by accident, that a bale of straw in the farm pond keeps it clear. Research over fifteen years at the Centre for Aquatic Plant Management, an outstation of The Institute of Arable Crop Research at Long Ashton, has proved the effectiveness of barley straw in keeping pond water clear.

Pond Pads and Pond Strip have been developed to provide a natural, chemical free solution to clarity in ponds. Made from a matting of barley straw and natural cotton netting, Pond Pads have a large surface area allowing easy access of water and oxygen to the straw and free release of natural compounds. Since they are cut from a wide sheet of matting, there are many open ends of straw all round the edges of each Pond Pad which allows water to penetrate into the hollow stems, greatly speeding the breakdown process. Soluble carbohydrates released from the surface of the straw act on the monocellular green water algae causing them to clump together (flocculate) and sink to the bottom of the pond. In this way green water is often cleared in just a few days. Making the best use of the oxygen in water, safe aerobic decomposition is assured and the natural compounds which keep ponds clear are released into the water. The process continues for about six months giving long term protection.

New Lavender Pond Pads have been developed as a result of further research by the Centre for Aquatic Plant Management. It was discovered that lavender could be more effective as a natural algaecide than barley straw but needed more oxygen to break down. Green Ways have combined the benefits of the two plant materials into their New Lavender Pads but recommend that the pads are only used where there is a pumped system to ensure sufficient quantities of oxygen in the water.

Original Barley Pond Pads	Lavender Barley Pond Pads
Pond Pad Floater To Keep Pad Near Top