Building streams, ponds and waterfalls | Taking inspiration from nature
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- This video has a lot of footage from a recent trip I took to Toorongo falls in Gippsland. I think nature is the ultimate inspiration for anyone looking to add any kind of water feature to their backyard. So in the video I talk about the things that jumped out to me as I walked the Torrongo falls loop.
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Keep in mind not all sine wave pumps will come with outdoor rated transformers. Therefore it's important to keep the control panel and transformer protected from the weather. Shop around as more and more brands are entering the space and some do have outdoor rated controllers and transformers. I personally have the jebao brand and i needed to extend the cables myself. Here's a video on how I did that ( • Plumbing bog filter| W... ). Keep in mind cutting the cable will void the warranty.
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Rock whisperer 😅😅😅
Mother Nature’s haphazard chaos plus time equals astonishing beauty!
For sure 👍
Can only recommend Kev‘s advice! It has helped me a lot! Thanks😊
I’m so glad 😊👍
The best waterfeature I've ever seen and very inspiring!!!
Can’t beat nature. 👍
The falls are beautiful!! I can see why you are so inspired by them. Thanks for sharing.
It really is a magical place.
Being watching your youtube videos for ages finally finished me small pond, nearly finished me medium pond. Pondering the beauty of nature.
Thanks Kev, couldn't have done it without bud!!!! Would love to share photos.
That is awesome! You can email some photos if you like. kev@ozponds.com 👍
It's interesting how different streams look in different parts of the world. You've got huge round boulders that look like they've just been dropped there that we'd never see where I am.
Nature is so diverse. It’s one of the reasons I love ponds and water gardens so much, more diversity than the average suburban garden.
Some of the streams here in the mountains of Western North Carolina look like that, but more with Rhododendrons and different trees. Amazing being half a world away. It looks beautiful where you are. I love mosses!
What a beautiful place ❤
It really is.
WOW. Love the Ampitheater falls. My Favourite. love the water cascading harmonies. Great Camera work.
Are you sure this is not your backyard. Come-on admit it.
Need to visit this place in a hurry.
Have a great Mother's day.
You won’t be disappointed 👍
First time here and I must say thank you, I have a pond in my garden and it puts a smile on my face every day.
Ponds are the best 😊👍
Thanks for the trip to the falls. The native plants and mosses in their lovely greens that are found in and near bush waterway are a really special and soothing part of our environment.
You can often find at least some of them at local indigenous nurseries or Australian Native plant nurseries if you wanted to grow them. The Australian Native Nursery near me is also good for some mosses with stag horn ferns and the like. I’ve even got the little ribbon fern as an indoor plant where it’s happily trying to grow outside it’s container. I’ll need to give it something to grow along!
I'm totally with you on this, when I hear a waterfall, .. Nature Calls. And I'm runnin` for the loo. 😛
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What a beautiful place first of all…
Thank you once again for the inspiration.
I won’t have anything this cool in our yard once done either…but the key take away I’m getting fro you and others, is observe and mimic Nature as much as possible.
We have had access to a swimming hole at a friends property for years now…the last two I have been more mindful in observing water flowing through the creek and swimming hole, where it pools, and how Nature cleans it out…the critters and fish that live there, and the plants along the edges. Our friends do clean up the dead branches and leaves that accumulate in the pooling area…a natural skimmer so to speak…and it keeps the string algae down to a dull roar in the quieter corners.😎
You’re on the right path 👍
wish i could have that much water flow in my stream as what you saw at Toorongo. lovely footage!
I can’t even guess how much water is moving through there. It’s so loud.
I am going to have to make up a good excuse to get back down under. What a beautiful country. Thanks for the tour. The Toorongo videos actually gave me a couple ideas for my pond (still on paper).
What an amazing place. I’m located just out of Frankston so I’m definitely going to make the drive to visit there. Thanks again for the great video.
It’s a magical place. You won’t be disappointed 👍
Thank you for sharing your adventure. Was cool to see the plants and scenery of your local area. So many huge stones and so much water flow. Not to mention the giant ferns.
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Beautiful!
It is a magical place.
Awesome!
Great video ! Thank you for sharing these shots from this absolutely amazing location !
Your comparaison between nature and backyard is really interesting and inspiring.
Thanks Philippe 👍
It’s like you went back in time… Dinosaur time 😀
Yes 🦖
1:22 Hi. I’ve watched a lot of your videos, but haven’t found one that uses an existing flow of water. We have a year round spring box at the top of our property and a creek at the bottom. Very gentle slope. The original drainage pipe has stopped up and we’re trying to design something with ponds in between the two to both capture the water and have a place for it to exit. Do you have any videos that might be helpful for this? Or how a bog filter might fit into this set up.? Your videos are so clear and full of information. Thank you for providing these.😊
I haven’t done anything like that sorry.
Thanks! Just wondering if a bog filter inline somewhere would help keep things clean and clear. I’ll keep watching your wonderful videos so I’ll understand a little more.
G’day from the USA Kev! I’d like to put in a small pond with stream/waterfall, but I live in Michigan where we get a long hard freeze in the winter which leads to some questions: Would a bog filter still work for me? I’m not planning on having fish, so do you think it would be beneficial to drain the entire pond in the winter? Are there any other things that winter might affect that I should keep in mind when designing, building, and maintaining my pond? Thanks for all your videos and inspiration!
G’day Eric. The bog would still work, you’d probably just shut it down for the winter. I wouldn’t empty the pond but I might remove the pump or pumps. You’d also want to make sure no water is trapped in your plumbing lines before shutting down for the winter.
@@Ozponds thanks Kev!
Stupid question, but for a stream do you think a "level" stream would be okay or look odd. I'm building a waterfall and stream and torn between doing "levelled" sections vs a continual slope.
Level is ok as long as it slopes eventually. Level areas will allow the water to slow down. These areas will accumulate sediments which makes it easier to clean when you have certain areas where the build up always occurs.
Love your videos. Just wanted to ask this on a more recent video. I set up a temp pond in a 150 gal trough and will use it until next year when i have the funds to repaid our in ground pond. Its only been about 3 weeks and there is a nice slime layer on pretty much everything, rocks, filter, sides and bottom. Is this ok or do I need to fix it? There isn't any string algae floating around and it has roughly 18 goldfish. I am using an Aquagarden pump 200 which pumps max at 192gal/hr. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If pictures or anything would be helpful I could send those to you somewhere too.
Slime, bio film, algae all natural.👍