I lost eight koi in a single morning two years ago. A Great Blue Heron walked right past my fake owl decoy, fished through the gaps in my cheap netting, and cleaned out my favorite pond in under an hour. After that disaster, our team spent 90 days testing every heron deterrent we could get […]

I spent the last three months testing ten of the most popular water garden containers on Amazon, ranging from 8-inch mesh baskets all the way up to a 50-gallon stock tank, and the results surprised me. After setting up miniature patio ponds on my back deck, filling them with floating plants like dwarf water lettuce, […]