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Backyard Pond in Floral Park, NY 11001

Small Backyard Pond Maintenance in Floral Park, NY

Many people have dreamed about their future home since they were children. Would you live in a large mansion? Or maybe a quaint little cottage in the middle of nowhere? When you think about the backyard you wanted to have as a kid, did you want a small backyard pond?

No matter the water feature, whether a small pond or a waterfall design, many people in Nassau County dreamed about creating a relaxing space in their yard.

Now that you have your own home, you can install a backyard pond in Floral Park, NY. However, you have to do more than dig a hole, add a garden hose, and fill the pond. A small backyard pond requires more maintenance than you may realize.

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Luckily, Scott Anderson Design is here to let you know everything you need to do. Maintaining your small pond may seem stressful, but it will be a breeze once you know what to do. All you need is a few tips and tricks. And thankfully, we can help you with that.

Before you can worry about pond maintenance, though, you need to build a pond. Scott Anderson Design can help with that. Whether you want an outdoor waterfall, a water garden, or a garden pond, we can create the perfect garden designed specifically for you. Plus, you can make your pond uniquely yours with special flexible liners and a flat stone design.

Keep reading below to learn more about pond maintenance and why it’s essential.

Do You Need to Maintain Your Pond?

If you’ve never had a water garden in your Nassau County backyard before, you may wonder if small backyard pond maintenance is necessary. However, would you let your fish tank sit without cleaning it? You can imagine how dirty it would look after months of not cleaning it.

The same goes for your pond. A backyard pond in Floral Park, NY can be beautiful; it’s a perfect place to go when you need to walk away from the stress of the real world. You can’t relax when you sit at the edges of the pond filled with filth, though.

No one wants to look at a dirty pond, so you need to maintain it to keep it looking beautiful. Here are a few tips for maintaining your small backyard pond.

Clean the Pond

First, you have to clean the pond. While this sounds obvious, you may not necessarily think about it often. Are there leaves floating in the water? Pick them out.

Otherwise, the leaves can rot, dirtying your pond. If the pond liner looks dirty, wipe it down. You can also add water treatments to keep the pond water fresh. When you clean the small pond, you make it healthy and beautiful.

Add Plants

If you want to add extra beauty to your Floral Park, NY water feature, you can also add some plants. However, plants do more than add a relaxing element to the pond.

Plants can aid in the pond’s health. Placing plants in shallow water can help oxygenate the water. You need to add oxygen to your pond, and if you don’t want an intricate waterfall design, you can add plants to aerate the water.

If you listen to any of the advice that we have offered, the easiest is to add plants.

Maintain Any Equipment

You need a lot of equipment to maintain your pond, and you need to keep that equipment working properly. For example, do you have an aerator to add oxygen to your pond? Maybe you don’t, and you have a smaller waterfall instead. You need the waterfall or aerator to work if you want to keep the pond clean, your plants alive, and your fish healthy–if you have fish in your pond.

You also have to ensure your pumps and filters work well. And ensure the pond liner stays intact. You spent a lot of money to have a water garden built in your yard, so you don’t want to let the equipment fail.

Who doesn’t love sitting at the sides of the pond, listening to the water moving, and feeling the stress leave their body? Almost anyone can benefit from a backyard pond in Nassau County. Choose Scott Anderson Design for the best quality pond or waterfall. Call us at 516-729-5668 today.


Some information about Floral Park, NY

Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island. The population as of the US Census of 2010 is 15,863.

The area that is now Floral Park once marked the western edge of the great Hempstead Plains, and by some reports was initially known as Plainfield. Farms and tiny villages dominated the area through the 1870s when the development of the Long Island Rail Road Hempstead Branch and Jericho Turnpike cut through the area. Hinsdale had more than two dozen flower farms after the Civil War. The present-day village of Floral Park was once called East Hinsdale.

In 1874 John Lewis Childs arrived in the area to work for C.L. Allen as a seed seller. After building his own seed and bulb business and starting America’s first seed catalog business, Childs bought a great deal of land in the area. To promote his own business and the local horticultural industry, Childs named the local streets after flowers and renamed the area Floral Park. The expansion of the Floral Park Post Office and nearby village businesses are attributed solely to the success of Childs’ business. When the local Post Office took the name Floral Park, the Long Island Rail Road followed suit by changing the name of the East Hinsdale station to Floral Park in 1888. Formerly part of Queens, Floral Park became part of the new county of Nassau in 1899, and it was incorporated as a village in 1908. Childs served as its first president starting that year.

In 1903 the village boasted more than 200 acres (0.81 km2) of Childs’ flower beds. The massive volume of his mail order business grew the local post office to such an extent that it drew comparisons with the post offices of Chicago, Baltimore, and Boston.

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