Wasteland in Pattaya Transformed! Tropical Pond, Babbling Brook and new Lawn

The owners of this large plot in Nong Prue, Pattaya, had acquired an adjacent plot for development into a new tropical garden. This would help them to extend their current home.

Thai Garden Design helped design a large tropical pond and waterfall, with wetland filter and skimmer inlet, as well as a ‘babbling brook’ concept at the back of the garden.

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in only 3 weeks our team transformed this plot a wasteland filled with ditches into this beautiful water garden with two ponds and a waterfall in November 2023 our team traveled to Nong puru paa for a landscape renovation project when we arrived we found this one Rye worth of land riddled with ditches and standing water the rainy season had just come to an end and the ground was soaked there was a huge mound of dirt in the center of the plot at slightly under half an acre in size this plot would be a huge project the homeowners wanted a lush outdoor water garden at the back of the house they wanted a Terrace with a waterfall next to it the waterfall would empty into a main pond with an ornamental Bridge they also wanted a second Pond that would flow like a stream There Was An Old Pond at the the back of the property and the owners wanted to move a 2ton rock over to the new Pond and even though it was already November they wanted everything in time for Christmas our team only had six weeks right away we started on leveling the landscape whenever we work on any garden with a water feature we make sure the land is graded correctly so that water runoff is directed away from the main home on this plot we planned to have the water run off into the nearby River we used a macro excavator to break down the large mound of dirt and dig the ponds we removed rocks and debris and spread the soil evenly across the plot there were still some low areas so we brought in extra top soil and sand to raise ground closer to the house finally we used a soil roller and compactor to make the final grading at the same time we brought in a crane to move the two ton Rock From The Old Pond to the new Pond this required some careful maneuvering but our team has plenty of experience and the move went without a hitch with the feature Rock settled our team got to work constructing the natural pond the one meant to flow like a stream the owners wanted the sound of a gentle stream or Babbling Brook without fish or plants so we built a natural rock edge with plenty of movement so that the water would churn the owners wanted a low maintenance Pond without a dedicated filter system so we engineered a solution we set up a pump system that would bring water from the house waterer tanks down to the pond the water would recirculate for a while creating the Babbling Brook effect and then gradually overflow into the neighboring River with new fresh water always coming from the house this Pond will always stay fresh we engineered the flow rate to ensure that it wouldn’t run up the homeowners water bill too much either with the stream done we started work on the main pond the owners wanted this Pond to have an impressive waterfall so that they’d always have the sound of moving water this Pond was also going to have plants and fish we love creating waterfalls and this project gave us license to really build one out the final waterfall was 1.6 M High several meters wide and included several Cascades and pools we constructed the pools with shallow depths so that birds could come down and bathe ponds can easily grow algae so we set up a wetland style filter that would maintain the Pond’s natural ecological balance and keep the water clean in a wetland filter a pump pushes water into the bottom of the pond where we installed several natural filter layers the bottom of the pond contains large heavy rocks with layers of smaller rocks Pebbles and then gravel over top as the water rises the different grades of rock filter out sediment over time good bacter IA grow within the stones cleaning the water naturally plants help filter the water as well by removing nitrates and nitrates and injecting oxygen after all the filtering is done only fresh water rises to the top we also added a series of jets at the side of the pond to help circulate the water between the Jets and the natural waterfall movement the water receives plenty of churn and turbulence for good oxygenation over several hours of running the system the water is Contin ly circulated and cleaned after installing this filter series we added plants we used a mix of palms cads and ground cover to create a Tropical Oasis we introduced fish and built an ornamental Bridge across the middle of the pond a beautiful water feature that really adds to the atmosphere of the water garden with the ponds done it was quick work to install the rest of the landscape we laid the lines for an automatic sprinkler system and with the help of a crane we planted two large date palms finally we laid down and rolled out the lawn using a tropical variety of grass called zoia the lawn totally transformed the space and brought in a wonderful vibrant green color with the sprinkler system going from the start the grass stayed completely healthy and Lush and then we were done in a record 3 weeks the finishing touches were done two weeks before Christmas so our team even had time for a first cut of the grass just before Christmas break