Floating pond island

I read a tutorial on how to make these on another webstie. It looked easy enough, so I bought the supplies yesterday, and whipped one up this morning ...

Homemade floating pond planters or mini islands are a lovely way to add pops of colourful flowers to your garden pond. You can also use them to sail garden art or candles. They are very pretty on a summer evening.

Homemade floating pond planters or mini islands are a lovely way to add seasonal pops of colorful flowers to your garden pond. You can also use them to sail garden art or candles on a summer evening.

Mini Pond Island | Mini Koi Pond Islands | Want to grow a floating garden for a koi pond? Our nature inspired mini pond island improves water quality, beautifies ponds, and grows happier fish!

Floating islands are increasingly popular as a way to provide attractive centerpieces in ponds while improving water quality. From the shore, floating islands look like normal earthen islands covered in plants, but they are much more than that. They are hydroponic systems that, when fully colonized by growing plants, are essentially wetlands that float on the water’s surface

During my boyhood years I was fortunate to spend summers on a farm that was located near the confluence of two rivers. The water table was high and the soil was rich and fertile. There were many ponds on the property, and they all held fish—very large fish that never seemed interested in the bait … Biomimetics and Pond Health: Enjoy fish, clear water in your pond Read More »

Last summer I did a series of articles on pond building. Then a couple of weeks ago my mom brought a floating pond island to my attention. Pond islands have lots of benefits. First, they add great color and foliage to the pond that the fish can’t get at to kill off—Koi and gold fish are notorious for eating anything they can get their grubby little mouths on. Another advantage of a floating island is that it provides shade for the water, discouraging the growth of algae. It also filters…

Floating Wetlands Floating wetlands essentially are container gardens that float on the surface of ponds and lakes. Using flowering plants that are...

Floating island for ponds. Keeps the water clear.

So I've been all over the place on my thoughts about how to best construct a floating island/wetland for one of my ponds. I have to admit that the product put out by Bruce Kania at Floating Islands International looks to be simply fantastic. Of course, the pricing I am finding is also si...