Asheville Ponds

Asheville Ponds

Pond Maintenance, Pond Filtration and Pond Care Asheville, Nc

How a pond is maintained is just as important as how it is constructed. A pond that is constructed correctly, with the proper depth and filtration, will make the future maintenance much easier. This is something to consider when you are building a pond or having a pond built by a professional pond contractor. 

After the pond is built, having a professional pond maintenance contractor help you on a weekly or monthly basis is recommended, but not the only answer. If the pond is built with good filtration and aeration, you should be able to care for the system yourself, that is, if you have the time. 

An hour weekly is a good estimate of time you should expect to care for your pond. For a pond in Asheville, you should also expect to spend some extra time seasonally, with clean-outs or extra leaf removal.

The filtration system will need extra care in the Fall for sure.

Give us a call for a free pond maintenance consultation in the Asheville area.

Jacob

828-301-8017

Asheville Landscaping Water Features

Here is a pic of our current project. A fun pond and waterfall with a Flagstone path and bridge over the stream.

Gotta love landscaping in Asheville, lots of awesome pond and waterfall projects in these beautiful mountains!

The waterfall flows into a 6x12 pond under our clients deck.

Before

After

We also installed a full LED low voltage landscape and aquatic lighting system to this feature.

Jacob

Living Waters Landscaping

Asheville Landscape Contractors

Landscaping in Asheville

The summer season is here and we are installing some fun and beautiful landscapes in Asheville.
With the economy growing, now is the time to consider adding a water feature to your home.
Professional analysts say that adding a water feature to your home can increase the property value by 20%. This is not only a benefit to a potential buyer, but can benefit you as a homeowner who is planning on sticking around.
A simple pondless waterfall, like the one pictured above, brings a new peace to your existing yard and garden area. The soothing sounds of flowing water can help decrease neighborhood and local traffic noise, a great selling point for suburban houses.  
Not planning on selling? Adding a water feature can still increase the enjoyment of your existing garden space. 



I have noticed, especially here in the Asheville area, that the addition of a  simple waterfall or fountain, can create a special place for friends and family to gather and enjoy the outside garden together. Along with inviting dragonflies and humming birds, you can invite the sounds and atmosphere of the surrounding mountain streams to your back yard!

As a landscape contractor in Asheville, I invite you to give us a call for a free consultation.

Water Features, patios, landscaping, we do it all!

Call Jacob

831-566-8346

Modern Style Fountain in Asheville, NC

When you think of a fountain, many images come to mind. A three tiered concrete formal fountain maybe. Or the Bellagio in Vegas? 

Even a Lion's head spitting water into a small pond.

I have these same thoughts when I get call from clients asking me to build them a fountain. I wonder what they are thinking when they say 'fountain'.

I received an invitation to build a fountain for a client in Black Mountain, NC a couple weeks ago. His first concern was the noise of the nearby Interstate 40 in the background of this rather pristine mountain home.

 Side note: this property is the land formally known as Miami Mountain. A 1920's retreat with some of the best views of the Blue Ridge in the area.  

So, bringing the relaxing sound and 'white noise' of a fountain was crucial to this project.

The other aspect of this feature was to blend the rustic, mountain cottage feel with a modern look. The house was originally built in 1926, and my client has recently renovated it inside and out. He chose to modernize the house, while still allowing some of the original construction to show through. He left the original stone work on the fireplaces for example, but made the kitchen look like the Jetsons were in town!

It's a neat look and feel, and we decided to bring this design style outside to the fountain.

We had a custom steel box made and mounted it on a Galvanized pipe set in a concrete pier under the river rock. Then we faced the pipe with stone that we harvested off the property, giving the illusion that the box is balancing on the stone. 

With about 2500 gallons per hour flowing out of the box, it makes a great sound and creates a beautiful full sheet of water.

It was a small project, but it was fun to build.

Check back later for more fun projects by Living Waters. 

Asheville Landscaping: Before and After

Flagstone Patio and Walkway

Before

After

We installed this patio and walkway, with some simple landscaping, to bring a gathering place to this newly constructed log home for our clients.

This landscape features an Arizona Peach Flagstone patio and walkway, local accent boulders, 5000 sq ft of sod lawn and a custom vegetable garden area. We installed irrigation and drainage for the site also.

We had a great time installing this landscape for our clients, and they were very pleased with the end result. 

Walkway and Garden

Patio 

Before

After

Please feel free to contact us for a free landscape estimate in the Asheville area. 

Living Waters Landscaping

828-301-8017

Stone Work/ Water Features Asheville

A Week of Final Touches...

I spent this week working on finishing up a couple jobs that I have been doing for Reems Creek Nursery.

The first job was a water feature in Madison County that we had finished last month. I went back to clean it out and do some final touches since the weather has warmed up a bit.

The second job we finished up this week was a dry stacked boulder retaining wall in Weaverville. 

I do love the days of doing the final clean up and last minute touches on jobs, it gives me a chance to slow down and enjoy the beauty of the work we have created after all the long hard hours of construction.

Asheville Japanese Garden

Just a quick post to highlight a Japanese Garden project we were blessed to be able to work on.

This garden features a cascading waterfall with approx. 15 feet of total fall. We used some beautiful Jasper boulders in the waterfall and stream.

The waterfall ends with a relaxing Koi pond.

We also enjoyed installing some really fun stone work. There was a large dry laid Autumn Flame Stone patio, and approx. 600 square ft. of Wolf Creek Natural Stone Veneer retaining wall work.

The best part of this landscape design was the use of some amazing Bonsai trees. Our client had been raising some ancient trees that he wanted to use in the landscape. Some trees were as old as 250 years. Some of the trees were planted in the ground, others were placed in traditional containers around the yard.

I feel that I am constantly learning my craft as a landscape contractor. Each project providing me with a new challenge. I hope to grow and learn more as I install landscapes and water features in the Asheville area.

Water Features Asheville

When we are designing and building waterfalls, we look to the natural environment around us. The Asheville area has some beautiful waterfalls and streams to enjoy and gather inspiration from.
However, like this waterfall we installed, the man made water feature is a combination of nature and art. Natural waterfalls tend to be a little more organic and rough around the edges, with trees and branches fallen across streams and seasonal water flow changes.
We attempt to install waterfalls and ponds to look as natural as possible, but with a crisp, artistic finish.
Recirculating water, adding filtration and building bog areas, like the the bog filter in the picture above, allow us to express the beauty that we see in nature and make it a functional feature for our clients.

We truly enjoy building ponds and waterfalls as much as we enjoy spending time in nature soaking in the beauty we find there.

Asheville Area Pond and Waterfall

So I have been in the Asheville area for about 4 months now and I have been inspired greatly by all the beautiful waterfalls and streams in the mountains here.

I have been working on a waterfall in Madison County, just outside of Asheville, this past month. It is an amazingly beautiful place, in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mountains not far from the Appalachian trail. It has been a great place to do some fun rock work and landscaping.

I have been working with Reems Creek Nursery and Landscaping out of Weaverville, NC on this project. Reems Creek is an awesome outfit with kind and talented people. I hope to be able to continue to do projects with them for years to come.

The waterfall and pond we have been working on used approx. 35 tons of local Granite fieldstone. It has 3 ponds and two waterfalls. The first waterfall is a cascading fall that drops about 6 feet into the lower pond that we built.

The second waterfall is a straight 3 foot drop off a 1000 lb flat Granite falls rock. Both falls offer a stunning view to our clients from any place in their house. 
It has been fun to work with local stone, trucked in from no more than 30 miles from where they where harvested.
This is different from working in Santa Cruz, where we would have stone trucked in from all over the state, if not from farther away.

I am excited to see the plans God has for us and this company working in Asheville, recreating the beautiful waterfalls and landscapes we all enjoy in this area.

Being a landscape contractor in Asheville, or anywhere, can be difficult, but at the end of the day when we look at the waterfall or landscape we have helped to create, it makes all the hard work worth it.

More Pics soon to come!