My next tranche of tagged photos from my 20+ years of garden visits are of ponds, both private and public.  By definition, ponds don’t have hard constructed edges – and if they did, they’d be pools. “Ponds have natural, free-form, or irregular shapes, often with shallow, rocky, or planted zones. Pools are usually, deep, concrete, fiberglass, or lined containers with usually straight, geometric, or formal edges.”

I’ll start with the pond I see most often, in the back yard of my neighbor with the largest garden in Greenbelt, MD. She generously invites the whole town to a garden party every spring when the azaleas are blooming.

But check out how it looks in fall – covered with a humongous screen to collect fallen leaves. 

Other neighborhood friends found space in their tiny townhouse back garden for this pond, with a bridge crossing over it.  They added very nice lighting everywhere in their yard and beyond, so it’s pretty magical in the evening and my favorite party space in town!

Here are two of the ponds I saw during my first Garden Walk Buffalo in 2007 and I’m pretty sure the one on the left is in Elizabeth’s own rowhouse garden.

There’s a lot going on in and around this cute little pond I noticed during the San Francisco Fling.

This garden was a crowd favorite at the 2015 Garden Fling in Toronto. Pano view.

This one in Baltimore may be my favorite because of the stunning plant design, and the most colorful beehive I’ve ever seen as another focal point.  (Wonder if the color impacts the bees. Hmm.)

Public gardens

I found this pond in a semi-public garden – the community garden at a retirement community in Silver Spring, MD. You can see lots more in my blog post about it, but I believe this is the only pond in the popular, jam-packed space.

And in a more public space like the National Cathedral’s Bishop’s  Garden, I have to admire the construction of this pond in such a difficult spot. But sure enough, young visitors are far more interested in the pond than in the cherry blossoms and daffodils nearby.Here’s the only pond at River Farm (HQ of American Hort Society) in Alexandria, VA.  The garden’s primary water feature is the Potomac River. 

 

Finally, this pond at Chanticleer Garden near Philadelphia makes me wonder how big a pond has to be before it’s a lake.

The images remind me of my first visit to Chanticleer, when the gardener working in this area gave me some lily pond seed pods that I treasured for years.

MORE Garden Features 

These photo collections started when I learned (from GardenRanter Ben) that I could search for tags just using Windows Explorer – no extra software! So began a fun winter project – scrolling through thousands of photos taken over at least 20 years, and tagging the hell out of them. For my enjoyment and yours. The others are: