Enhance Your Pond with an IslandScape

IslandScapes are living floating gardens that enhance the beauty and biological health of ponds and waterways--providing an innovative filtration and a lush growing environment for terrestrial plants.IslandScapes provide added protection for fish, added biofiltration (such as nitrate removal), shade, and a natural food source for fish and other life.

They come in different shapes and sizes and can be combined to meet your pond and design needs.  Plant them with flowers to create splashes of color and make your pond pop, or  wetland plants for a more natural feel.  You can mix and match to create many phenomenal looks.

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It's a mini-landscape in a pond!

Enchanting Fairy Solar Fountain Saves Energy

The adorable and inexpensive fairy design garden fountain (under $200) brings garden fantasy and fairy tales of days gone by to mind and inspires magical moments and story telling in children. Enjoyed by young and old, it is a delightful garden addition. It offers peace, serenity and soothing sounds, with the added benefit of knowing that you are saving energy because this fountain is solar powered, making it easy on ear, the environment, and your pocketbook.

A Fountain Can Turn An Unusual Space From Plain to Magnifiscent

This delightful European, angel topped, fountain helped fill an unusual corner off a deck, creating an alluring and soulful element in the garden that adds energy and life to the surrounding landscape.  It can be viewed and enjoyed at a distance from a garden path and can be heard from the deck, where the trickling water sounds help to sooth and relax people as the sit on the deck and enjoy the tropical landscape.

Angel Fountain Adds Interest & Appeal

Bring Nature Into Your Garden with a Stream

Add life and magic to your garden by adding a stream.  A stream in the garden creates a natural setting, with soothing sounds as water runs through it.  Your stream can be connected to a pond or waterfall, or created in and of itself like the picture below.  It can look more natural or more man-made to reflect your individual style.  And, with plants and lighting it can be as dramatic as you wish.  To learn more, visit your local garden center or contact a landscaper like Island Landscape to assist you with a garden stream design.  

Gently curving stream has a natural look and feel.

Mosaic Fountain Added to Garden Planter Enhances View Inside & Out

This affordable mosaic fountain in pineapple design would be a wonderful addition for many gardens.  Below we showcase how this fountain is used to enhance interior and exterior views.  Looking out from the inside, the fountain, improves the view from the window by giving owners and guests a decorative feature to look at and enjoy.  Outside, the fountain fills a gap in the side planter, adds a pleasing water element, offers soothing sounds to help people relax, and provides a place for birds to get a cool drink and play.

Fountains Are Great Additions For Your Home

Top 10 Reasons to Include A Koi Pond In Your Garden

I love koi and have a koi pond at home. They are so much fun to watch, do not take much work, and are excited to see me when I come to feed them. There are many other benefits too, including these:

Top 10 Reasons to Include A Koi Pond In Your Garden

1. Adds beauty and serenity to your life
2. Koi make terrific pets
3. More and more doctors are reporting health benefits from koi ponds
4. Watching koi is relaxing
5. The sound of gently moving water is soothing
6. Tending a koi pond makes a great hobbie
7. A koi pond is an attractive and popular feature for your garden
8. It gives your garden or landscape a natural feel
9. Saves on watering as koi ponds take less water than grass or other plants that would otherwise occupy the same space
10. Increases your home’s value 

Koi Pond in Tropical/Asian Influenced Landscape in Maui, Hawaii

Choose An Outdoor Fountain That Is Right For Your Garden

When looking for an outdoor fountain, choose one that compliments the area, overall garden, and best represents your design style.  The picture below features the same landscape, with three different and inexpensive fountains (all under $250) that can be used to change the garden's look.  The first is a more traditional, mosaic fountain; the second, an Asian solar fountain (where the box can more hidden); and the third, an abstract fountain.  Together, you can see how each can work, but it is a matter of preference.

One landscape, three fountains; which would you choose?

Receive Many Benefits From A Garden Wall Fountain

Wall fountains are a dynamic piece of art that can be used outdoors or indoors and add beauty and life to an area.  Water is also calming and the sound of gentle running water soothes the soul and helps people relax, particularly after a long day.  In addition, they add a bit of humidity to the air, which helps to improve health on a number of levels.  Further, one can always find space somewhere for a wall fountain; they don’t take up much room.  For these reasons, they also make excellent gifts, not just for garden lovers, but for everyone.  With so many styles to choose from, you are sure to find something for each person on your gift list.

Pineapple design wall fountain welcomes you.

Garden Design: Water Features Add Life To A Garden

In life, all things need water and we instinctively connect with water.  That is why a water feature is a great addition for any landscape or garden and really should be an essential element of every design.  Whether you incorporate a large, customed water feature (like a pond, waterfall or fountain) or a small table top fountain, it will be a positive addition that makes an immeasurable difference.

Custom water feature designed by Island Landscape.